Nurse Informaticist

Nurse Informaticist

Facility: West Campus (Chase): 303 E Republic Rd, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807

Department: 1700 IT Clinical Informatics

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Hours: Varied

Work Shift: Day Shift (United States of America)

CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:

• Named one of Modern Healthcare's Best Places to work five times.
• Named one of America's Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group.
• Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.
• Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)
• For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth

Job Description:

The nurse informaticist (NI) functions as a knowledgeable practitioner, consultant, educator, and evaluator to maintain and improve system services. As a nurse informaticist, you are responsible for leading the department through the design of clinical processes, solutions, technology workflow and successful adoption that will lead to achieved value, by participating in efforts which meet departmental needs in adherence with the guidelines aligned with the organization strategy. The nurse informaticist will manage ongoing relationships with departments, providing system management and clinical subject matter expertise, focusing on department success in utilizing technology solutions. The nurse informaticist will assist in change management, help identify opportunities for improvement, and is accountable for achieving the project targeted outcomes. As the nurse informaticist, you will provide informatics guidance and act as a liaison between the clinical departments and IT, leveraging both clinical and informatics knowledge to provide innovative solutions. You will establish trusted relationships with department leaders. The nurse informaticist will collaborate across teams to plan and ensure appropriate communication and documentation is completed to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of systems and services, to support high-quality clinical workflows and application development. The nurse informaticist will evaluate clinical utilization and workflow, including patient safety and clinical outcomes; research, analyze and make recommendations for clinical application workflow improvements.

Education: • Preferred: Bachelors of Science in Nursing

Experience: • Preferred: At least 3 years of clinical experience • Preferred: Previous Clinical informatics experience

Skills: • Ability to track ticket requests • Ability to cope in a fast-paced environment • Builds relationships through purposeful rounding practices • Review change requests submitted. Escalating requests to the appropriate clinical and IT working groups for further review, discussion, and approval.

Licensure/Certification/Registration: Required: RN license active in the state of Missouri