Nursing Practice Leader - Nursing Informatics

The Nursing Informatics Nursing Practice Leader (NPL) functions as a Nursing Informatics and Nursing Practice Specialist to support and lead nursing and ancillary documentation practices in the electronic health record including the evaluation and implementation of clinical technologies to provide safe and efficient patient care. The NPL utilizes informatics in the electronic health record as well as clinical policies/guidelines, compliance standards, practice scope awareness, and communication systems.

The Informatics NPL provides ongoing education, training, and support to coordinate and optimize utilization of the electronic health record and communication technologies. Position requires strongly demonstrated leadership experience.

This Nursing Practice Leader is an expert nurse clinician that has strong interest and foundation in utilization of an electronic health record in practice and a responsibility for ensuring an environment of safe, quality, and efficient care. The NPL demonstrates an advanced level of policy/guideline understanding related to clinical practice, sound clinical judgment and competency, technical competency with clinical information system applications, understanding of clinical workflows, professionalism as it relates to interpersonal and general communication skills, experience in supporting the policies/guidelines and workflows surrounding timely and compliant documentation, and takes responsibility for ongoing professional development, current practice trends and competency validation.

This position will include occasional off shifts, on call shared within team.

Provide workflow analysis and project management on electronic health record functionalities

Develop technologies that support clinical decision making

Support end users in full utilization of the electronic health record and other technologies

Collaborate with HCIS teams to create an integrated clinical information system

Facilitate data entry, retrieval, management and display for the purpose of improving patient care and processes.

• Regular salaried position located in Iowa City, Iowa
• Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health, dental, life and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plans
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• Master’s Degree in Nursing; if Master’s degree is in a related field, Baccalaureate in Nursing is required
• Current license to practice nursing in Iowa
• Minimum 3+ years clinical experience in a health care environment preferably in a large medical center or teaching hospital
• Proven project management skills: ability to coordinate activities and projects across departments, time management, organization of workload, analytical decision-making skills, attention to detail, and thoroughness
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Suite of products (such as Outlook, Word, Excel, One Note, PowerPoint)
• Experience working independently with a strong focus on customer service

Demonstrated commitment to fostering a welcoming, respectful, and collaborative work environment

• Professional certification in relevant leadership or clinical specialty; if not certification will be obtained within the 1 st year
• Clinical practice experience at the University of Iowa Health Care
• Experience using Epic in an ambulatory or hospital setting
• 1-3 years of experience contributing to a clinical information system implementation cycle through areas such as design, workflow analysis, build, training implementation, and support in an ambulatory or hospital setting
• Certification in nursing specialty or role
• Ability to assess learning needs and administer effective education methods
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