Associate Nursing Information Officer

Location Address:
9521 San Mateo NEAlbuquerque, NM 87113-2237

Summary:
Presbyterian Delivery System (PDS) seeks a dynamic, distinguished executive to serve as its next Associate Nursing Informatics Officer (ANIO). This is a pivotal, high-visibility leadership role designed for an expert who commands a deep understanding of advanced nursing practice and the sophisticated digital ecosystems required to support modern, high-reliability healthcare delivery.

The ANIO serves as the primary strategic voice and executive liaison uniting Nursing Leadership, Medical Staff, Clinical Operations, and Information Systems (IS). In an era of rapid technological advancement, regulatory complexity, and clinical workforce challenges, the ANIO will ensure that health information technology is never a barrier to care, but rather an elegant, intuitive tool that empowers clinicians, safeguards patients, and drives operational excellence.

This leadership opportunity arrives at a formative moment for PDS. The organization is actively refining its enterprise clinical workflows, maximizing its electronic health record capabilities, and modernizing its clinical governance frameworks. The ANIO will step into an ecosystem eager for collaborative transformation.

By leading, mentoring, and expanding a high-performing team of Clinical Informatics Specialists, the successful candidate will directly shape how care is delivered across the entire Presbyterian Delivery System footprint. This role offers an exceptional platform to champion clinical quality, reduce administrative burden on frontline nurses, and design the future state of technology-enabled patient care.

Job Description:

Strategic Execution & Interface

• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to draft, refine, and execute a multi-year strategic road map for Nursing Informatics that directly mirrors the clinical and operational goals of PDS.
• Serve as the primary interpreter between technical IS analysts and practicing clinicians, translating complex technical architectures into intuitive, efficient workflows.
• Advise senior leadership on macro-level healthcare technology trends, federal regulatory mandates, and nursing informatics best practices to position PDS at the forefront of the industry.

Personnel Leadership & Team Empowerment

• Provide visionary leadership, evaluation, performance management, and daily operational direction to the Clinical Informatics Specialist team.
• Build a continuous-learning culture within the informatics division, encouraging advanced certifications, data literacy, and clinical process-improvement capabilities.
• Define clear metrics, service level expectations, and project boundaries to guard the team against scope creep while optimizing their impact on clinical units.

Workflow Engineering & Quality Preservation

• Organize and execute systematic, objective evaluations of clinical information systems, employing data analytics and direct clinical observations to isolate and fix broken user experiences.
• Apply rigorous nursing knowledge to core project design teams, ensuring user interface setups prioritize safety and clinical efficiency.
• Partner with quality, risk management, and regulatory compliance leaders to swiftly transform quality audit findings into real-time, system-enabled clinical practice updates.

Vendor, Stakeholder & Emergency Coordination

• Cultivate and manage collaborative, accountable partnerships with electronic health record (EHR) vendors, communication platform providers, and medical device hardware partners.
• Lead technical-clinical core teams charged with deploying hardware and software updates, ensuring rigorous testing protocols prevent post-go-live clinical disruption.
• Formulate, govern, and audit clinical downtime workflows, training nursing units to safely navigate systems-offline scenarios without degrading patient safety or high-reliability metrics.

Additional Job Description:
*Bachelors degree
*Current RN licensure
*8 years of clinical informatics experience
*5 years of nursing experience
*2 years of leadership role in Clinical Informatics or related area

Preferred
*Masters degree in Nursing, Informatics or related field
*Certification in Nursing Informatics or related field
*Epic Certification

Benefits
Benefits are effective day-one (for .45 FTE and above) and include:

• Competitive salaries
• Full medical, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Free wellness programs
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Retirement plans, including matching employer contributions
• Continuing education and career development opportunities
• Life insurance and short/long term disability programs

About Us
Presbyterian Healthcare Services is a locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, it is the state's largest private employer with approximately 11,000 employees.


Presbyterian's story is really the story of the remarkable people who have chosen to work here. Starting with Reverend Cooper who began our journey in 1908, the hard work of thousands of physicians, employees, board members, and other volunteers brought Presbyterian from a tiny tuberculosis sanatorium to a statewide healthcare system, serving more than 700,000 New Mexicans.


We are part of New Mexico's history - and committed to its future. That is why we will continue to work just as hard and care just as deeply to serve New Mexico for years to come.

About New Mexico
New Mexico's unique blend of Spanish, Mexican and Native American influences contribute to a culturally rich lifestyle. Add in Albuquerque's International Balloon Fiesta, Los Alamos' nuclear scientists, Roswell's visitors from outer space, and Santa Fe's artists, and you get an eclectic mix of people, places and experiences that make this state great.


Cities in New Mexico are continually ranked among the nation's best places to work and live by Forbes magazine, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, and other corporate and government relocation managers like Worldwide ERC.


New Mexico offers endless recreational opportunities to explore, and enjoy an active lifestyle. Venture off the beaten path, challenge your body in the elements, or open yourself up to the expansive sky. From hiking, golfing and biking to skiing, snowboarding and boating, it's all available among our beautiful wonders of the west.


AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.