Associate Nurse Informaticist - Ambulatory

UVA Health • Manassas, VA

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About The Position

The Associate Nurse Informaticist for UVA Community Health Medical Group assesses, plans, trains, implements, evaluates, and optimizes clinical informatics projects. The role serves as a primary interface between clinical teams, operations, and Health Information Technology, supporting multidisciplinary project coordination and communications and planning for system implementation and integration with other UVA Health Northern Virginia and Culpeper initiatives.

The Associate Nurse Informaticist collaborates with clinical and operations leadership, Nursing Professional Development, Information Technology, and Quality and Safety teams. The role supports informatics-related new-hire orientation, including system access, documentation expectations, and workflow basics, and acts as a bridge between frontline clinicians and enterprise informatics teams. Reporting to the Medical Group AVP of Nursing and Quality, the Associate works under senior nurse informaticists or informatics leadership. The role focuses on implementation, optimization, operational execution, staff support, and local improvements rather than enterprise-wide strategy, while developing foundational informatics competencies.

Responsibilities include providing frontline support for Epic and other clinical systems; assisting with testing, validation, upgrades, and rollouts; supporting staff education and standardized workflows; helping teams use clinical dashboards, reports, and metrics; contributing to quality improvement; gathering and relaying frontline feedback; supporting change management; and participating in informatics governance and workgroups. Additional duties may be assigned.

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.
• Current RN licensure in Virginia.
• Strong knowledge of clinical information and processes.
• Ability to translate clinical data and information for a technical team.
• Knowledge of healthcare regulatory mandates and reporting requirements.
• Knowledge of healthcare operations and business processes.
• Ability to work with teams and direct an organized work effort.
• Competence in moderately complex analysis assignments and ability to work under deadlines and heavy workloads.
• Skill with commonly used business intelligence tool sets.
• Ability to work with healthcare personnel at all levels, from senior leadership to entry-level staff.
• Ability to participate in developing strategies and interventions that affect cost and quality.
• Ability to identify trends and produce forecasts.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, including the ability to initiate and develop productive collaborative partnerships.
• Moderately advanced understanding of clinical and nonclinical relational databases and large clinical and nonclinical data structures.
• Ability to drive or travel to multiple facilities and locations as needed.
• Physical ability to stand constantly, walk frequently, bend or stoop, and lift, push, or pull up to 100 pounds; Safe Handling Equipment is required for weights over 35 pounds.
• Proficient communication, auditory, and visual skills, attention to detail, and ability to write legibly.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in informatics or an IT-related field.
• Five years of progressive clinical experience and informatics-related experience, clinical quality experience, or project management experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a first-line informatics resource and provide at-the-elbow support for Epic and other clinical systems.
• Identify workflow inefficiencies and usability concerns and escalate them to nursing informatics leadership.
• Participate in assigned build validation, testing, and optimization activities, 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.
• Help develop and deliver end-user training, tip sheets, quick-reference guides, and job aids.
• Reinforce standardized documentation and workflows during go-lives and optimization efforts, and provide feedback about staff learning needs and training gaps.
• Assist with the use and interpretation of clinical dashboards, reports, and metrics to support quality and operational goals.
• Help leaders and staff understand 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 purpose of informatics changes and modeling adaptability and professionalism.
• Inform direct leadership of activities and updates pertinent to the clinical area.
• Maintain awareness of nursing informatics governance structures, councils, and workgroups, and participate as assigned.
• Support alignment of 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.
• Support new-hire orientation from an informatics perspective, including system access, documentation expectations, and workflow basics.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level