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 between clinical teams, operations, and Health Information Technology, coordinating multidisciplinary projects and participating in 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 position supports new-hire orientation on system access, documentation expectations, and workflow basics, and serves as a bridge between frontline clinicians and enterprise informatics teams. The role reports to the Medical Group AVP of Nursing and Quality and works under the guidance of senior nurse informaticists or informatics leadership. It focuses on implementation, optimization, operational execution, staff support, and local optimization rather than enterprise-wide strategy, while building foundational informatics competencies for potential advanced informatics roles. The position provides first-line informatics support, including at-the-elbow assistance with Epic and other clinical systems; participation in validation, testing, upgrades, and local rollouts; support for end-user education and training materials; assistance with the use and interpretation of clinical dashboards, reports, and metrics; support for quality improvement initiatives; change-management engagement; and participation in informatics governance activities. Additional duties may be assigned. This role requires driving or traveling to multiple facilities and locations as needed. Physical demands include constant standing, frequent walking, bending or stooping, and the ability to lift, push, or pull up to 100 pounds, using safe-handling equipment for weights over 35 pounds. Safety equipment such as a HEPA mask may be required for infection prevention. The position has no on-call responsibilities.
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.
- Ability to translate clinical data and information for a technical team.
- Knowledge of healthcare regulatory mandates and reporting requirements.
- Knowledge of healthcare operations and a strong understanding of business processes.
- Ability to work with teams and direct an organized work effort.
- Ability to work on moderately complex analysis assignments.
- Ability to work under deadlines and heavy workloads.
- Skill and ability across commonly used business intelligence tool sets.
- Ability to work with healthcare personnel at all levels, from senior leadership to entry-level staff, across the enterprise.
- Ability to participate in developing strategies and interventions to 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.
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, train, implement, evaluate, and optimize clinical informatics projects.
- Serve as the primary interface between clinical teams, operations, and Health Information Technology to coordinate multidisciplinary projects.
- Participate in communications and project planning for system implementation and integration with other UVA Health Northern Virginia and Culpeper initiatives.
- Collaborate with clinical and operations leadership, Nursing Professional Development, Information Technology, and Quality and Safety teams.
- Support new-hire orientation on system access, documentation expectations, and workflow basics.
- Provide first-line informatics assistance and 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 nurse- or clinical-facing technology initiatives at the unit or service-line level.
- Support education on Epic functionality, documentation workflows, and clinical decision-support tools.
- Assist with 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 provide feedback about staff learning needs and training gaps.
- Assist staff and leaders with using and interpreting clinical dashboards, reports, and metrics for quality and operational goals.
- Support understanding of 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.
- Serve as a change champion, gather frontline feedback, communicate clinician perspectives to informatics and IT partners, and support staff during transitions.
- Inform direct leadership of activities and updates pertinent to the clinical area.
- Maintain awareness of nursing informatics governance structures and participate in assigned committees or workgroups.
- 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.
- Drive or travel to multiple facilities and locations as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
