Chief Nursing Information Officer and Senior Director, Nursing Informatics
About The Position
The Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) is an executive leadership role responsible for spearheading nursing digital transformation across the health system. Reporting to the Chief Medical Information Officer, with a dotted-line relationship to the Chief Nursing Executive, the CNIO serves as the senior nursing leader accountable for translating frontline nursing practice and clinical operations into safe, efficient, and scalable digital workflows. The CNIO leads nursing informatics strategy and execution, ensuring alignment between clinical care delivery and enterprise technology, with a focus on improving patient safety, quality, and operational efficiency. The CNIO is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and functions as a collaborator across nursing, medical, operational, and IT leadership. The role emphasizes influence, governance, and standards rather than direct budget ownership. Success is measured by demonstrable improvement in nursing workflows, experience, safety, and outcomes. The CNIO represents nursing practice in enterprise governance structures and serves as the authoritative voice on how technology impacts clinical workflows. The CNIO leads Epic-based nursing workflows, documentation standards, and optimization efforts, with decision-making authority over nursing-facing configuration, design standards, prioritization, and adoption. The CNIO is a core participant in enterprise AI and digital health governance, accountable for how emerging technologies—including AI, automation, and virtual nursing—impact nursing workflows and patient care. The role evaluates and guides the integration of new technologies to ensure safe, effective, and scalable adoption. The CNIO ensures that nursing-facing data, analytics, and reporting are integrated into workflows and decision-making, in partnership with enterprise analytics and quality teams. The CNIO provides strategic leadership for nursing education and training related to digital workflows and tools. As a system change leader, the CNIO drives adoption of standardized workflows, leads clinical transformation tied to technology implementation, reduces documentation burden and supports workforce sustainability, and engages frontline staff, educators, and leaders in change efforts. The CNIO partners with nursing leadership and professional governance structures to support shared decision-making, nursing excellence, and Magnet principles through optimized digital workflows. The CNIO contributes to enterprise strategy by advising on adoption and scaling of clinical technologies, supporting interdisciplinary performance improvement, representing nursing informatics best practices internally and externally, and aligning technology initiatives with clinical and operational priorities.
Requirements
- Executive leadership role responsible for spearheading nursing digital transformation
- Translating frontline nursing practice and clinical operations into safe, efficient, and scalable digital workflows
- Leading nursing informatics strategy and execution
- Ensuring alignment between clinical care delivery and enterprise technology
- Focus on improving patient safety, quality, and operational efficiency
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Collaborator across nursing, medical, operational, and IT leadership
- Emphasis on influence, governance, and standards rather than direct budget ownership
- Represents nursing practice in enterprise governance structures
- Authoritative voice on how technology impacts clinical workflows
- Leads Epic-based nursing workflows, documentation standards, and optimization efforts
- Decision-making authority over nursing-facing configuration, design standards, prioritization, and adoption
- Core participant in enterprise AI and digital health governance
- Ensures that nursing-facing data, analytics, and reporting are integrated into workflows and decision-making
- Provides strategic leadership for nursing education and training related to digital workflows and tools
- System change leader
- Partners with nursing leadership and professional governance structures
- Contributes to enterprise strategy
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) is required.
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience required.
- Active RN licensure required.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s or doctoral degree in nursing, informatics, healthcare administration, or related field strongly preferred.
- Experience in clinical informatics, workflow design, or performance improvement preferred.
Responsibilities
- Defining and governing nursing informatics standards across the continuum of care
- Ensuring alignment of systems with professional nursing practice
- Leading implementation, evaluation, and continuous optimization of clinical systems
- Partnering with clinical decision support and IT teams to advance evidence-based care
- Accountable for how emerging technologies—including AI, automation, and virtual nursing—impact nursing workflows and patient care
- Evaluating and guiding the integration of new technologies to ensure safe, effective, and scalable adoption
- Advancing nursing metrics, dashboards, and reporting
- Aligning analytics with operational and quality priorities
- Promoting the effective use of clinical business intelligence
- Driving adoption of standardized workflows
- Leading clinical transformation tied to technology implementation
- Reducing documentation burden and supporting workforce sustainability
- Engaging frontline staff, educators, and leaders in change efforts
- Supporting shared decision-making, nursing excellence, and Magnet principles through optimized digital workflows
- Advising on adoption and scaling of clinical technologies
- Supporting interdisciplinary performance improvement
- Representing nursing informatics best practices internally and externally
- Aligning technology initiatives with clinical and operational priorities
Benefits
- A Zero-Deductible Health Plan
- Dental and vision insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Tuition Assistance
- Retirement Savings Match
- A Robust Employee Assistance Program to help with many aspects of emotional wellbeing
- Membership to Healthy U: An Incentive-Based Wellness Program
- Health savings account & flexible spending account for childcare
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development
- Discounts to on-campus dining
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
