Clinical Nurse Informaticist

Randolph Hospital District D B A Memorial Hospital•Chester, IL

15h

About The Position

The Clinical Nurse Informaticist serves as the bridge between clinical operations, information technology, quality improvement, and organizational leadership. The role optimizes clinical workflows through technology, supports data-driven decision-making, improves patient outcomes, ensures regulatory compliance, advances interoperability and information exchange, and leads adoption of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence. The position collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to maximize the value of electronic health record (EHR) systems and other clinical technologies while promoting operational efficiency, patient safety, and staff engagement. This is a full-time, hourly position at 40 hours per week, with a Monday–Friday day-shift schedule. The role reports to the Chief Nursing Officer. The Clinical Nurse Informaticist provides clinical informatics leadership; optimizes EHRs and clinical workflows; develops analytics, dashboards, and decision support; supports quality, regulatory compliance, interoperability, AI adoption, education, change management, data governance, population health, telehealth integration, and revenue-cycle documentation initiatives.

Requirements

Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of practice.
Bachelor's degree in Nursing.
Minimum of 3–5 years of clinical nursing experience.
Experience with electronic health record systems.
Experience leading projects, workflow redesign, or quality improvement initiatives.
Strong analytical and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Nursing Informatics, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
ANCC Informatics Nursing Certification (RN-BC).
Experience with rural health, critical access hospitals, ambulatory care, or population health programs.
Experience with data analytics, dashboard development, and reporting tools.
Experience supporting interoperability and health information exchange initiatives.
Project Management certification or formal project management training.
Experience evaluating or implementing AI and healthcare technology solutions.

Responsibilities

Serve as the clinical liaison among nursing, providers, ancillary departments, administration, and information technology teams.
Provide strategic leadership for clinical information systems and technology initiatives; participate in technology-related strategic planning and facilitate clinical informatics, EHR, AI, and technology governance committees.
Develop relationships with vendors, consultants, and technology partners, and promote continuous improvement, innovation, and evidence-based practice.
Assess and optimize EHR workflows and clinical documentation; identify ways to improve efficiency, reduce documentation burden, and enhance user satisfaction.
Recommend system enhancements and participate in EHR upgrades, testing, validation, implementation, and maintenance.
Develop documentation standards, templates, order sets, care plans, clinical decision support tools, and workflows; monitor system utilization and adoption metrics.
Support integration of clinical equipment, including lab devices, ECGs, pumps, and vital monitors.
Develop and analyze clinical, operational, quality, and financial metrics; create dashboards, reports, and data visualizations; assist leaders in interpreting data and identifying trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
Support population health, value-based care, strategic planning, and performance-indicator development with finance, quality, and operations leaders.
Support regulatory reporting and accreditation standards, including CMS, Joint Commission, state, and federal requirements; promote documentation compliance and participate in informatics-enabled quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
Provide vendor-management and contract input; support disaster recovery and downtime planning and grant-funded technology initiatives.
Lead interoperability efforts with healthcare systems and community partners; collaborate with external providers, health information exchanges, referral partners, and vendors; support interfaces and data exchange solutions and monitor their performance.
Evaluate emerging technologies, AI tools, automation opportunities, and digital health solutions; assess use cases, risks, benefits, privacy, and organizational readiness; support AI governance, ethical oversight, education, and innovation strategies.
Develop and deliver clinical technology education; mentor staff, build EHR super-user support, create training materials and competency assessments, coordinate end-user training, and support employee and physician onboarding.
Lead clinical technology projects from planning through implementation and evaluation; apply project management methods, facilitate stakeholder communication, conduct impact and readiness assessments, and develop implementation, testing, and post-go-live plans.
Design, evaluate, and maintain clinical decision support systems; monitor alert effectiveness and reduce alert fatigue; support medication safety, infection prevention, care coordination, and patient safety initiatives.
Promote accurate, complete, standardized clinical documentation and data integrity; support data governance, privacy, security, and cybersecurity awareness in collaboration with compliance and information security teams.
Support care management, chronic disease management, population health, value-based purchasing, alternative payment models, and initiatives focused on patient access, care coordination, and health outcomes.
Support integration of telehealth and virtual care technologies.
Support quality documentation, charge capture, and clinical documentation improvement collaboration; assist with revenue-cycle initiatives and use analytics to identify operational improvement opportunities.