Clinical Informatics Nurse Specialist

Overview

The Clinical Informatics Nurse Specialist functions as the clinical expert consultant leader researcher and educator for clinical information and communication systems. Reviews, recommends designs, develops, implements, maintains, supports, optimizes and evaluates clinical information and communication systems in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of health care team members, information services vendors and other informatics professionals. Leads and manages initiatives and projects for the introduction and optimization of clinical information and communication systems.

Provides oversight and leadership of clinical information system downtime and emergency preparation and support. Provides clinical data stewardship, analysis and visualization creation. Liaises between teams, clinicians, leadership and IS regarding clinical information and communication systems. Leads initiatives in the field in respect to research, innovation and professional development.

The Clinical Informatics Nurse Specialist functions as the clinical expert consultant leader researcher and educator for clinical information and communication systems. Reviews, recommends designs, develops, implements, maintains, supports, optimizes and evaluates clinical information and communication systems in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of health care team members, information services vendors and other informatics professionals. Leads and manages initiatives and projects for the introduction and optimization of clinical information and communication systems.

Provides oversight and leadership of clinical information system downtime and emergency preparation and support. Provides clinical data stewardship, analysis and visualization creation. Liaises between teams, clinicians, leadership and IS regarding clinical information and communication systems. Leads initiatives in the field in respect to research, innovation and professional development.

• Provides oversight and participates in the system development life cycle (SDLC) for clinical information systems and clinical communication systems in collaboration with key stakeholders: project planning, workflow assessment, systems analysis/requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, evaluation and maintenance.
• Identifies opportunities for optimization of clinical system functionality and adoption and clinical workflows and how clinical information or communication systems could provide improvement.
• Collaborates with other resources to develop and implement educational content related to clinical information and communication systems use at system implementation, user onboarding and on an ongoing basis.
• Supports end users of clinical information and communication systems during systems implementation and throughout the life cycle of the system, including elbow support, troubleshooting, optimization and change management.
• Evaluates factors and develops solutions related to safety, effectiveness, cost, clinical quality and regulatory compliance when developing and implementing clinical information systems.
• Participates in Med Star Health projects for the selection of enterprise clinical information and communication systems, including the evaluation of vendor product presentations and demonstrations.
• Participates in the design, validation, implementation and optimization of data sets, visualizations and reports for their constituents. Promotes the integrity of the nursing data collected, retrieved and disseminated from clinical information systems.
• Acts as a change agent, anticipates the future needs of clinicians and innovates in the best interest of their clinicians and patients, and assists others in understanding the importance, necessity, impact and process of change.
• Liaises between groups where constituents data and technology interface.
• Contributes to the clinical nursing informatics body of knowledge by disseminating best practices through conference presentations, posters and publication.
• Maintains and advances knowledge and skills in nursing informatics through continuing education and/or…