Consultant Clinical Downtime Nurse Informaticist

HCA Healthcare is seeking a Consultant Clinical Downtime Nurse Informaticist to lead planning, implementation, and support of clinical downtime and recovery workflows across our hospitals. In this role, you will collaborate with nursing, IT, and clinical operations to design safe downtime procedures, optimize EHR workflows, and ensure regulatory-compliant documentation. You will analyze incidents, develop standard work, train clinical teams, and support go-live and drills.

The role blends deep clinical nursing expertise with informatics, change management, and project leadership to improve patient safety and continuity of care.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and optimization of clinical downtime and recovery workflows for EHR and key clinical systems
• Partner with nursing, physicians, and IT to ensure safe, compliant downtime documentation processes
• Conduct downtime risk assessments, incident reviews, and root-cause analyses to drive process improvement
• Design and deliver training, education, and drills for clinical teams on downtime procedures
• Support system go-lives, upgrades, and planned outages, serving as a clinical informatics resource
• Maintain downtime policies, standard operating procedures, and reference materials
• Monitor performance metrics and feedback to improve patient safety and continuity of care
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements related to clinical documentation and downtime
• Serve as a liaison between frontline staff and technical teams to translate clinical needs into workflow solutions
• Contribute to enterprise informatics projects and change management initiatives

Required Skills

• Clinical informatics
• Electronic health record (EHR) workflows
• Downtime and business continuity planning
• Clinical documentation standards
• Data analysis and reporting
• Training design and delivery
• Change management
• Project management
• Healthcare regulatory compliance
• Stakeholder communication