Associate Nurse Informaticist - Ambulatory
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 is the primary interface among clinical teams, operations, and Health Information Technology, coordinating multidisciplinary projects and communications related to 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 also supports new-hire orientation on system access, documentation expectations, and workflow basics, and serves as a bridge between frontline clinicians and enterprise informatics teams. Reporting to the Medical Group AVP of Nursing and Quality, the Associate Nurse Informaticist works under the guidance of senior nurse informaticists or informatics leadership. The position focuses on operational execution, staff support, and local implementation and optimization rather than enterprise-wide strategy, while building foundational informatics competencies for potential advanced informatics roles. Responsibilities include providing frontline support for Epic and other clinical systems; helping validate, test, and optimize clinical system tools; supporting upgrades and functionality rollouts; assisting with end-user education and training materials; supporting the use and interpretation of clinical dashboards and performance metrics; contributing to quality-improvement initiatives; and championing change by gathering frontline feedback and communicating it to informatics and IT partners. The role also supports alignment of clinical workflows with organizational policies, professional practice standards, and regulatory requirements. 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.
- Registered Nurse licensure in the state of Virginia.
- Strong knowledge of clinical information and processes, and the ability to translate clinical data and information for a technical team.
- Knowledge of healthcare regulatory mandates and reporting requirements, 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 across commonly used business intelligence tool sets.
- Ability to work with healthcare personnel at all levels, from senior leadership to entry-level staff.
- Ability to contribute to strategies and interventions intended to affect cost and quality, 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.
- Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including constant standing, frequent walking, bending or stooping, and lifting, pushing, or pulling up to 100 pounds; safe-handling equipment is required for weights over 35 pounds.
- Proficient communicative, 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.
- Informatics-related experience.
- Clinical quality experience.
- Project management experience.
Responsibilities
- Assess, plan, train, implement, evaluate, and optimize clinical informatics projects.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary projects and serve as an interface among clinical teams, operations, and Health Information Technology.
- Participate in communications and project planning for system implementation and integration with UVA Health Northern Virginia and Culpeper initiatives.
- Support new-hire orientation on system access, documentation expectations, and workflow basics.
- Provide first-line informatics support and at-the-elbow assistance for Epic and other clinical systems.
- Identify workflow inefficiencies and usability concerns and escalate them to nursing informatics leadership.
- Participate in build validation, testing, and optimization activities, including preference lists, documentation tools, and order sets.
- Assist with Epic upgrades, enhancements, and new functionality rollouts at the unit or service-line level.
- Support other nurse- and clinician-facing health technology initiatives.
- Assist with 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 leaders and staff with use and interpretation of clinical dashboards, reports, and metrics.
- Help staff understand how documentation affects quality measures, regulatory reporting, and outcomes.
- Participate in unit- or service-level quality-improvement initiatives supported by 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 model adaptability and professionalism.
- Inform direct leadership of activities and updates relevant to the clinical area.
- Participate in informatics-related committees or workgroups as assigned and support alignment 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 to multiple facilities and locations as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
