What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Informaticist position at iCare Health Network?
The Nurse Informaticist role is responsible for ensuring efficient and compliant documentation to support quality outcomes.
The role also:
Compliance and Quality
The role also:
- Leverages the nursing process, critical thinking, clinical workflow expertise, analytics, and change management strategies to identify and facilitate the adoption of clinical information systems and technologies that support and improve the patient, family, and clinician’s experience.
- Drives the optimal, efficient, and effective use of systems as it relates to patient care, patient safety, user satisfaction, clinical productivity, and quality outcomes.
- Serves as the primary liaison between clinical care teams, operations, information services, and other healthcare specialties to lead and facilitate innovative solutions that support optimal clinical care.
- Identifies opportunities and facilitates the identification and implementation of solutions utilizing evidence based practices, data, regulatory requirements, and quality improvement techniques.
- Is responsible for enhancing the nursing and clinical teams’ use of technology and analytics to improve the health of populations, communities, and families across the continuum of care.
Compliance and Quality
- Guides solution design, incorporating clinical/healthcare knowledge, data analysis and quality improvement concepts to ensure optimal fit for patient care and clinician usability
- Utilizes data to drive process, workflow and behavior change as it relates to appropriate and efficient use of electronig health records and clinical technologies
- Leads and coordinates projects, manages resources, and completes projects successfully and on schedule
- Identifies, evaluates and develops plans for introducing technology-based innovations that will increase efficiency, reduce waste, or solve a problem within the organization. Gains technical expertise in functionality that is pertinent to nursing care.
- Provides nursing clinical expertise to assess and recommend ways technology could enhance workflows and access to patient related information.
- Maintains a working knowledge of licensing, regulatory, and compliance factors related to clinical information system usage. Assists in development and ongoing review of system related policies, procedures and competencies; assures technologies and workflows align where appropriate.
- Serves as a resource to end users for information systems and technology; effectively communicates and educates system changes, workflow process changes, downtime procedures and relevant information to clinical teams.
- Acts as a change agent, driving organizational change management to ensure successful adoption and maximize value for othe healthcare team and patient care.
- Understanding of clinical practice as it pertains to the integration of clinical information systems/technology and impact on end users;
- Excellent interpersonal communication, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills
- Evidence of ability to function with a high degree of independence while actively collaborating with the healthcare team
- Excellent analytic and critical thinking skills
- Demonstrated success in the use of quality improvement methodologies
- Understanding of mandates of regulatory and accrediting bodies
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and initiatives with a high degree of reliability
- Knowledge of current trends and practices in nursing and health care
- Ability to creatively develop solutions that improve the clinician and resident experience
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program; BSN or Bachelors degree in a health related field preferred; Certification in Nursing Informatics preferred
- Active Connecticut Registered nursing (RN)license
- CPR Certification
- Software Proficiency in Point Click Care, Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, Internet
- 5 years of progressive clinical experience and/or informatics-related experience; Project management experience; Involvement in quality improvement initiatives; Experience with State Survey Process
- Generous salary, commensurate with experience
- Benefits program, includes health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid Time Off, including vacation, personal, and sick time
- 401(k) Retirement program with matching
- Short and Long-term disability insurance
- Collaborative work environment
