Registered Nurse (Informatics)

<p>The Northeast Ohio VA Healthcare System is recruiting for a Registered Nurse (Informatics) within the Health Informatics Service. The Registered Nurse (Informatics) blends clinical expertise with technology to improve how Veterans receive care. In this role, you will support safe, high-quality, date-driven practice by enhancing clinical systems, advancing workflow efficiency, and strengthening the connection between staff, information, and patient outcomes.</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>The duties of a Registered Nurse (Informatics) include, but are not limited to: Participates in local activities relating to the planning, development, and implementation of informatics solutions. Resolves issues and employs a range of informatics functions to include business process and workflow optimization, training, and education, content management, and addresses barriers to workflow and system adoption. Participates in activities that enhance healthcare capabilities and the evolution of technology adjoined to the electronic health record to deliver quality care by developing, implementation, monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing informatics tools and access to them. Uses communication and education to support comprehension and drive adoption of organizational change. Effectively creates, integrates, disseminates, and manages data for enterprise applications, processes and entities requiring timely and accurate data delivery. Provides consultative services to all levels of the CA organization, in understanding health informatics initiatives, processes and measures, and the evidence- based practices upon which they are constructed. Provides staff with expert knowledge and skills across all informatics domains, to include a common vocabulary and understanding of the clinical environment in which they function, agnostic of the system or platform. Evaluates, documents, analyzes and prioritizes requirements for the improvement of the electronic health record and other systems in collaboration with the end-user. Analyzes end-to-end processes to evaluate workflows, identify gaps, develop evidence-based solutions; communicate changes using appropriate tools to promote adoption across all stakeholders. Participates in team activities that utilize the group process to evaluate enhancements to clinical IT applications and their use. Upon hire, the intended primary function of this position is Health Informatics Integration. Tasks include but are not limited to: Coordinate appropriate use of workload tracking applications by Health Informatics personnel, routing of issues/risks/requests, and escalation in accordance with established, prescribed process. Maintain enterprise awareness and mitigation of site electronic health record related issues/risks using effective communication and governance channels. Leverage project management practices to track tasks to closure. Support and guide staff in the appropriate submission of issues/risk/requests and assist with training and adoption of users. Manage databases for tracking and prioritizing electronic health record related issues/risks and generate data-driven reports to inform decision making by leadership, committees, and oversight entities. Coordinate local change control activities aligning implementation and sustainment of the electronic health record with the federal baseline standard. 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, 7:30am-4:00pm, tour of duty may be adjusted based on agency needs. Telework: On Ad-hoc basis Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized</p><h3>Requirements</h3>U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical examination. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). You may be required to serve a probationary period. Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.