Registered Nurse, Informaticist - Electronic He...
SummaryThe Informaticist Registered Nurse, under the Associate Director for Patient Care Service, oversees the Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) including the Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC). The RN has continuing oversight of the overall coordination, planning, organization, analysis, and evaluation of change management practices related to the EHRM.DutiesHelpMay be required to provide cross coverage at all Jesse Brown VAMC locations including the Lakeside CBOC, Auburn Gresham CBOC, Adam Benjamin Jr. CBOC, and Chicago Heights CBOC.The RN establishes overall goals, objectives, and priorities for all change management efforts supporting EHRM, providing continual reinforcement and sustainment of measurable change to manage resistance, building long term trusted relationships, and showing measurable progress of system adoption to the EHR. Duties include, but are not limited the following:
- Exercises leadership in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of hardware and software applications integrated with the electronic health record (EHR) and associated programs/applications.
- Acts as an advisor to nursing leadership and other key officials to achieve standardization of best practices with the EHRM across the facility in alignment with High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members, including other program and service leaders at the facility and network.
- Works closely to establish and maintain effective relationships with all levels of Veteran Affairs (VA) staff nationwide.
- Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level. Program or service level outcomes must be broad and complex and can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility, Veterans Integrated Services Network (VISN), or Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO), illustrating performance and leadership that benefit the facility.
- Responsible for investigating and championing enterprise standards practices, procedures, software, and equipment (as applicable) to ensure care standardization across the enterprise.
- Incorporates a focused, rigorous monitoring, and timely resolution of patient safety health information technology (HIT) outcomes as part of the EHRM initiative.
- Supports sites' understanding of local sustainment functions and responsibilities to ensure post-go-live readiness, enable end users to seamlessly perform their workflows post go-live, and maintain long-term success of the EHR.
- Assists in directing the provision of education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization.
- Supports other informatics roles throughout the medical center including serving as a backup for the Bar Code Medication Administration Coordinator, Automated Data Processing Applications Coordinator Registered Nurse, etc. as deemed necessary to support clinical operations.
- Training and meetings may be required as needed.
- 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).]
- Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- your performance and conduct;
- the needs and interests of the agency;
- whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
- whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
- Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program. Upon achievement of a State license, the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6); OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program. Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD).
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico) of the United States, or the District of Columbia. Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception: Candidates who otherwise meet the basic education requirements, but do not possess the required licensure, may be appointed at the entry step of the grade and level applicable to the completed nursing education as a GNT on a 120-day temporary appointment while actively pursuing licensure (may be extended up to two years on a case-by-case-basis.)
- BSN preferred
- Minimum of two (2) years experience in Nursing/Health Informatics related field
- National certification in nursing/health informatics field or similar
- Knowledge and experience of healthcare software or technology
- Experience in program development
- Leadership experience