Chief Nursing Information Officer and Senior Director, Nursing Informatics

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CLINICAL INFORMATICS - 108232 Worker Sub Type
Regular Work Shift

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Job Description

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.

Executive Positioning and Scope

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.

Epic Authority and Informatics Governance

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.

Key responsibilities include:

• 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

AI, Automation, and Digital Innovation

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.

Data, Analytics, and Decision Support

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.

Accountabilities include:

• Advancing nursing metrics, dashboards, and reporting
• Aligning analytics with operational and quality priorities
• Promoting the effective use of clinical business intelligence

Education, Change Management, and Adoption

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
• Engages frontline staff, educators, and leaders in change efforts

Professional Practice and Governance

Partners with nursing leadership and professional governance structures to support shared decision-making, nursing excellence, and Magnet principles through optimized digital workflows.

Strategic Contributions

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
• Aligning technology initiatives with clinical and operational priorities

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) is required.

Master's or doctoral degree in nursing, informatics, healthcare administration, or related field strongly preferred.

Experience

Minimum 5 years of leadership experience required.

Experience in clinical informatics, workflow design, or performance improvement preferred.

Licensure

Active RN licensure required.

Measures of Success

Success is evaluated by:

• Improvement in nursing workflow efficiency and documentation burden
• Adoption of standardized digital workflows
• Nursing experience and engagement
• Patient safety and quality outcomes

The role is defined by its ability to drive measurable transformation through governance and influence, not by direct budget ownership or span of control.

Benefits

At Valley Health, we believe everyone is a caregiver, and our goal is to create an environment where our caregivers thrive physically, financially, and emotionally. In addition to a competitive salary, our most popular benefits for full-time employees include:

• 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

Valley Health also offers a health savings account & flexible spending account for childcare, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, and professional development. In addition, several perks come with working for the largest employer in the region, such as discounts to on-campus dining, and more.

To see the full scale of what we offer, visit valleyhealthbenefits.com.