Associate Nurse Informaticist - Ambulatory
About The Position
The Associate Nurse Informaticist for UVA Community Health Medical Group assesses, plans, supports, implements, evaluates, and optimizes clinical informatics projects. The role serves as a primary interface among clinical teams, operations, and Health Information Technology, coordinating multidisciplinary projects and supporting communications and planning for system implementations and integrations with UVA Health Northern VA and Culpeper initiatives. The incumbent collaborates with clinical and operations leaders, Nursing Professional Development, IT, and quality and safety teams, and supports new-hire orientation on system access, documentation expectations, and workflow basics. The role also bridges frontline clinicians and enterprise informatics teams to enable two-way communication. Reporting to the Medical Group AVP of Nursing and Quality, the Associate Nurse Informaticist works with guidance from senior nurse informaticists or informatics leadership. The position focuses on operational execution, staff support, and local optimization rather than enterprise-wide strategy, while building foundational informatics skills for potential advancement. The role provides first-line support for Epic and other clinical systems; contributes to validation, testing, upgrades, and workflow optimization; and helps develop and deliver end-user training materials. It assists staff and leaders in interpreting clinical dashboards, reports, and metrics, supports quality improvement work, and escalates workflow, data integrity, and documentation issues. The incumbent also serves as a change champion, gathers frontline feedback, participates in assigned governance activities, and helps align workflows with organizational policies, standards, and regulatory requirements. Additional duties may be assigned. The position requires travel or driving between facilities and locations as needed. The role may require safety equipment such as a HEPA mask for infection prevention. The stated base compensation range is $45.00 to $68.80 per hour; individual compensation depends on qualifications, experience, and education, and the range excludes potentially applicable incentive compensation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing.
- At least 3 years of clinical experience.
- At least 3 years of data and/or analytics experience in an ambulatory environment.
- RN licensure in the state of Virginia.
- Strong knowledge of clinical information and processes, and ability to translate clinical data and information for a technical team.
- Knowledge of healthcare regulatory mandates, reporting requirements, healthcare operations, and business processes.
- Ability to work with teams, direct organized work, handle moderately complex analysis assignments, and meet deadlines under heavy workloads.
- Skill with commonly used business intelligence tool sets.
- Ability to work with healthcare personnel at all organizational levels.
- Ability to contribute to strategies and interventions affecting cost and quality, identify trends, and produce forecasts.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, including the ability to establish productive collaborative partnerships.
- Moderately advanced understanding of clinical and nonclinical relational databases and large data structures.
- Ability to drive or travel to multiple facilities and locations as needed.
- Ability to meet the physical demands described for the role, including constant standing, frequent walking, bending or stooping, and lifting, pushing, or pulling up to 100 pounds; use Safe Handling Equipment for weights over 35 pounds.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in informatics or a related field.
- Five years of progressive clinical experience and informatics-related experience, clinical quality experience, or project management experience.
Responsibilities
- Assess, plan, support, implement, evaluate, and optimize clinical informatics projects.
- Coordinate communication and projects among clinical teams, operations, and Health Information Technology.
- Support system implementation and integration planning for UVA Health Northern VA and Culpeper initiatives.
- Support new-hire orientation on system access, documentation expectations, and basic workflows.
- Provide first-line, at-the-elbow support for Epic and other clinical systems.
- Identify workflow inefficiencies and usability concerns and escalate them to informatics leadership.
- Participate in build validation, testing, and optimization, including preference lists, documentation tools, and order sets.
- Assist with Epic upgrades, enhancements, new-functionality rollouts, and other clinical technology initiatives.
- Support education on Epic functionality, documentation workflows, and clinical decision-support tools.
- Assist in developing and delivering end-user training, tip sheets, quick-reference guides, and job aids.
- Reinforce standardized documentation and workflows during go-lives and optimization efforts, and share staff learning needs with informatics education teams.
- Assist staff and leaders with interpreting clinical dashboards, reports, and metrics.
- Support understanding of how documentation affects quality measures, regulatory reporting, and outcomes.
- Participate in unit- or service-level quality improvement initiatives that use informatics solutions.
- Escalate data integrity issues and documentation inconsistencies to nursing informatics leadership.
- Champion change during system upgrades, workflow changes, and informatics initiatives; gather frontline feedback and communicate clinician perspectives to informatics and IT partners.
- Support staff through transitions by explaining the rationale for informatics changes and inform direct leadership about relevant activities and updates.
- Participate in assigned informatics committees or workgroups and maintain awareness of relevant governance structures.
- Help align clinical workflows with organizational policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with nursing leadership, quality, IT, and informatics colleagues to ensure solutions support professional nursing practice.
- Drive or travel between facilities and locations as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
