Nurse Informatics Specialist at Hybrid – Hybrid

Informatics Practice

• Guides the creation and maintenance of clinical and business processes, within evidence-informed use of system capabilities, to collect, record, and share patient data, reduce redundancy, and standardize clinical practice around documentation
• Leads implementation, optimization, and maintenance efforts by demonstrating adherence to informatics practice standards in all phases of the system development life cycle
• Participates in review and prioritization of requests for change
• Participates in review and approval of design, implementation, and evaluation of changes to CIS, and of their impact to clinical end users
• Conducts workflow analysis and needs analysis, as needed · Maintains team and department documentation, as relevant to projects and changes
• Supports the integration of clinical guidelines into practice, CIS solutions, and knowledge bases
• Demonstrates consideration for clinical, financial, and social impacts in all aspects of informatics practice
• Fosters an organizational culture that promotes evidence-informed creation and use of HIT to accomplish goals
• Demonstrates a commitment to integration, data standards, and application of HIT as they add value for the end user and the organization.

Collaboration

• Participates in OHSU Healthcare committees as needed, including clinical practice and EHR governance
• Promotes collaborative relationships for consultation, to maximize the effectiveness of HIT solutions
• Provides consultation for EHR application teams
• Utilizes advanced communication skills to promote relationships between the team and all stakeholder groups
• Models proficient nursing informatics practice to interprofessional team members

Outcomes and Quality

• Promotes the efficient, effective, and secure use of electronic health record data
• Supports nursing and interprofessional knowledge by assisting with development of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive reports, and their associated workflows
• Supports the reporting prioritization process as needed

Other Duties as Assigned

Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Competencies):

• Knowledge of the health system as a whole, and differing patient care processes within its settings
• Knowledge of the principles of project management, including documentation and communication
• Knowledge of the principles of process improvement
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in a diverse workforce, including facilitation and presentation skills
• Critical thinking, in all aspects of project and maintenance work, with creativity and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements affecting care processes and supporting HIT

• Nursing Informatics Certification
• Demonstrated success in a dynamic HIT environment, including implementing technology that supported fundamental changes in the clinical environment and RN workflow
• Demonstrated success as a member of a high performing team, while exhibiting intrinsic motivation
• Demonstrated success in proactively pursuing problem resolution to satisfy customer, system, and compliance needs
• Demonstrated success in managing multiple complex tasks to completion at assigned deadline
• Experience in an HIT environment that employed Epic Systems as the EHR software Systems analyst or application management experience in implementing and maintaining an EHR
• Experience in project management
• Experience in process improvement
• Experience with Elsevier’s Clinical Practice Model Resource Center