Registered Nurse - Informaticist

Job Title

Duties

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Participates in local activities relating to the planning, development, and implementation of informatics.
• Communicates Health Informatics issues with the Chief Health Informatics Officer and other stakeholders.
• Collaborates with the St. Cloud VA Health Informatics department in supporting the organization's mission and vision.
• Assists with the implementation and integration of evidence-based practice, clinical practice models, health practice patterns and related activities in the mutual development and achievement of organizational goals.
• Evaluates and/or designs activities that support information technology, clinical application development, and implementation and ongoing monitoring of clinical information systems as assigned.
• Resolves issues and employs a range of informatics functions to include business process and workflow optimization, training and education, content management, and addresses barriers to workflow and system adoption.
• Develops policies for local informatics processes.
• Improves care delivery and outcomes by supporting the development, implementation, evaluation, monitoring, and maintenance of clinical decision support and health practice patterns.
• Analyzes existing health processes and identifies ways health data and health practice patterns can enable improved outcomes by supporting innovation through informatics tools and processes.
• Effectively creates, integrates, disseminates, and manages data for enterprise applications, processes and entities requiring timely and accurate data delivery.
• Evaluates content quality and ensures access to knowledge resources, eliminating redundancy in data sources, and improving information interoperability across the organization.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with project management, quality improvement, and electronic health systems
• Formal training in informatics
• Strong interpersonal skills
• 2 years bedside clinical care

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00AM to 4:30PM

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.