Registered Nurse; Informaticist

Position: Registered Nurse (Informaticist)
The Registered Nurse (Informatics) is the specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. This position facilitates the integration of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom to support patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings.

The RN (Clinical Informatics Specialist) identifies and analyzes issues and implements informatics solutions that may encompass technology and non-technology elements such as developing a database, developing requirements for a new application, advocating the utilization of standardized terminologies, designing informatics curricula, tailoring an application to a particular environment, designing a research study to describe required informatics competencies, describing information flow in a process redesign, creating newly re-engineered processes, or creating a structure for information presentation.

This support is accomplished using information structures, information processes, and information technology.

The goal of the RN (Clinical Informatics Specialist) is to improve the health of populations, communities, families, and individuals by optimizing information management and communication. These activities include the design and use of informatic solutions and technology to support all areas of nursing and healthcare, including but not limited to the direct provision of care, establishing effective administrative systems, managing and delivering educational experiences, enhancing lifelong learning, and supporting nursing research.

Major duties include, but are not limited to the following:

* Incorporates theories, principles, and concepts from appropriate sciences into informatics practice. Examples may include information, systems, and change theories. Principles and concepts may include project management, implementation methods, workflow analysis, process redesign, organizational culture, or database structures.

* Integration of ergonomics and human-computer interaction (HCI) principles into informatics solution design, development, selection, implementation and evaluation.

* Systematically determines the social, legal, regulatory, and ethical impact of an informatics solution on nursing and healthcare.

* Practice is base on nursing process and evidence based research. Core competencies will depend on the individual role and competency checklist.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

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, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm (subject to change based on agency needs)

Telework:
Available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized