Associate Vice President, Nursing Innovation and Digital Practice

If you are a current Adventist HealthCare employee, please click this link to apply through your Workday account.Adventist HealthCare seeks to hire an experienced Associate Vice President of Nursing Innovation and Digital Practice for our Epic team who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

As an Associate Vice President of Nursing Innovation and Digital Practice, you will:
• Lead assigned system nursing informatics initiatives from planning through implementation and optimization; define scope, workplans, milestones, risks, stakeholder roles, testing needs, readiness activities, and outcome measures in alignment with enterprise clinical informatics priorities.
• Provides executive nursing oversight for Epic and related clinical technologies across inpatient, ambulatory, procedural, and other care settings; directs clinical workflow design, documentation standards, decision support, system configuration guidance, testing, implementation, lifecycle optimization, usability, and standardization.
• Builds and coordinates a system nursing informatics champion network; facilitates nursing workgroups and feedback channels, engages frontline nurses in design and validation, and elevates priorities and unresolved issues through established governance.
• Leads change-management, communication, education, and adoption activities for nursing technology initiatives; collaborates with education, super users, and operational leaders to prepare end users and reinforce sustainable practice changes.
• Uses user feedback, clinical data, nursing-sensitive indicators, and adoption measures to identify improvement opportunities, assess the effect of implemented changes, and recommend corrective action or further optimization.
• Serves as a nursing liaison to the CNO’s, IT, quality and safety teams, operational leaders, vendors, and Epic representatives; communicates status, dependencies, decisions, and escalation needs.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and care models, including artificial intelligence, automation, mobile tools, virtual care, interoperability, and predictive analytics; leads responsible pilots, risk review, measurement, scaling, and ongoing monitoring.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications include:
• Executive-level knowledge of a broad range of nursing practice, clinical operations, patient safety, quality improvement, clinical documentation, and the role of electronic health records and other clinical technologies in care delivery.
• Demonstrated skill in workflow analysis, implementation, optimization, and end-user support within defined governance and change-control processes.
• Ability to lead system-level nursing digital technology initiatives, organize work, manage competing priorities, identify risk and dependencies, and deliver measurable improvements without requiring formal supervisory authority.
• Strong communication, facilitation, listening, relationship-management, and change-management skills; ability to engage bedside nurses, nurse leaders, educators, physicians, analysts, and technical teams.
• Ability to translate nursing practice needs into clear workflow, configuration, testing, education, and adoption requirements and to communicate technical concepts in clinically meaningful terms.
• Knowledge of clinical data, nursing-sensitive indicators, user experience, adoption measures, data quality, patient-safety practices, privacy, regulatory requirements, and evidence-based performance improvement.
• Demonstrated initiative, adaptability, resilience, sound judgment, accountability, and ability to perform effectively during organizational change, upgrades, go-lives, downtime, and time-sensitive support events.
• Ability to develop and sustain an effective network of nurse champions and clinical partners and to facilitate frontline participation in system design, validation, and continuous improvement
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited college or university is required. A master's degree in nursing, nursing informatics, health informatics, healthcare administration, information systems, or a related field is required.
• Minimum 10 years of nursing or healthcare experience. EHR implementation or optimization, clinical systems, clinical education, quality improvement, or related work experience. Epic experience is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of management experience with responsibility for people, programs, budgets, and complex interdisciplinary initiatives.
• Current, active registered nurse license in the state of practice or valid multistate privilege is required. ANCC Informatics Nursing Board Certification (NI-BC) is preferred at hire and required within 24 months. Epic certification or proficiency is preferred.
• Must maintain required professional credentials and participate in travel, on-call coverage, and extended-hour support for implementations, upgrades, downtimes, go-lives, and major operational events as need

Epic Assessment Requirement
As part of the interview process, candidates advancing to the final stages of consideration will be required to complete a two-part online assessment through Honorlock, Epic’s testing partner. The assessment provides additional insight into competencies important for success in the roles. Honorlock utilizes AI-assisted proctoring technology to help maintain the integrity of the assessment process. Additional details will be provided to candidates selected to move forward in the hiring process.

Work Schedule:

Employment Type: Full-time

Hours per Week: 40 hours/week

Typical Daily Schedule: 8 am-5 pm, Monday through Friday

Shift Type: Day Shift

Holiday Requirements: Follow the company holiday calendar

Pay Range:

$170,169.27 - $255,253.90

If the salary range is listed as $0 or if the position is Per Diem (with a fixed rate), salary discussions will take place during the screening process.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), this position is classified as:

United States of America (Exempt)

At Adventist HealthCare our job is to care for you.

We do this by offering:

• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts

• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise

• Free Employee parking

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire

• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)

• Paid Time Off

• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period

• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance

• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support

As a faith-based organization, with over a century of caring for the communities in the Maryland area, Adventist HealthCare has earned a reputation for high-quality, compassionate care. Adventist HealthCare was the first and is the largest healthcare provider in Montgomery County.

If you want to make a difference in someone’s life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference.

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COVID-19 Vaccination

Adventist HealthCare strongly recommends all applicants to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before commencing employment. Applicants may be required to furnish proof of vaccination.

Tobacco and Drug Statement

Tobacco use is a well-recognized preventable cause of death in the United States and an important public health issue. In order to promote and maintain a healthy work environment, Adventist HealthCare will not hire applicants for employment who either state that they are nicotine users or who test positive for nicotine and drug use.

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Equal Employment Opportunity
Adventist HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to attracting, engaging, and developing the best people to cultivate our mission-centric culture. Our goal is to have a welcoming, equitable, and safe place to work and grow for all employees, no matter their background. AHC does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy and related medical conditions, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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