Nurse Informatician IT II (Remote - Pennsylvania)
About The Position
This is a specialty position that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in clinical practice to support all patient care facilities within the Geisinger enterprise. Facilitates data integration, information and knowledge to support patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processing, and information technology. Will focus on the design, structure, and presentation of information and how these issues impact clinician decision-making. Functions as the primary IT clinical end-user contact for the Department. Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree-Healthcare Related Degree (Required)
- Minimum of 4 years-Information Technology (Required)
- Minimum of 5 years-Clinical (Required)
- Licensed Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - RN_State of Pennsylvania
- Critical Thinking
- Interpersonal Communication
- Working Independently
Responsibilities
- Coordinates the collection/recording and analysis of data relevant to the nursing care of patients.
- Vets the proposed workflows with appropriate leadership and appropriate nursing committees.
- Assures that analysis and workflows address regulatory requirements.
- Implements clinical tools with a focus on continuous improvement to ensure efficient workflows that allow staff to make better care easier for our patients.
- Participates as a content expert for the framework that surrounds the nursing processes for assessment, diagnosis, patient and family education, identification of outcomes, planning, implementation and evaluations in primary and secondary applications.
- Articulates the informatics needs to IT staff and articulates the system limitations to clinical staff.
- Communicates effectively with other team members, end users, outside vendors, supervisor and leadership.
- Reinforces with end users the importance of following Geisinger policies related to privacy, compliance and safety.
- Assists with preparing training materials and training of end users and super users.
- Mentors nursing staff through implementation and updates of the electronic medical record.
- Participates in vendor review and selection process.
- Participates in hardware/equipment and integration review for projects and new hospital/clinic implementations.
- Able to lead small scale HIT projects independently including defining scope (in conjunction with peers and leadership), methods, data collection, coordination of meetings, and analysis.
- Identifies areas to develop and implement improvement plans to increase efficiencies and drive high quality care delivery across the continuum of care.
- Recommends system enhancements to support nursing and other clinical department end users.
- Coaches and mentors peers or other staff as part of a career development plan.
Benefits
- healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one
- vision
- dental
- benefits for domestic partners
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
