Registered Nurse - Nurse Informaticist

At the St. Cloud VA, Nurse Informaticists blend clinical expertise with technology to improve how Veterans receive care. In this role, you will support safe, high-quality, data-driven practice by enhancing clinical systems, advancing workflow efficiency, and strengthening the connection between providers, information, and patient outcomes.The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.Major duties include, but are not limited to:Participates in local activities relating to the planning, development, and implementation of informaticAssists with the implementation and integration of evidence-based practice, clinical practice models, health practice patterns and related activities in the mutual development and achievement of organizational goals.Evaluates and/or designs activities that support information technology, clinical application development, and implementation and ongoing monitoring of clinical information systems as assigned.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 adoptionAnalyzes existing health processes and identifies ways health data and health practice patterns can enable improved outcomes by supporting innovation through informatics tools and processes.Participates in activities that enhance healthcare capabilities and the evolution of technology adjoined to the EHR 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 changeEvaluates content quality and ensures access to knowledge resources, eliminating redundancy in data sources, and improving information interoperability across the organization.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 VA 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.Performs activities that identify and disseminate evidence-based interprofessional use of health IT to support a learning healthcare organization.Evaluates, documents, analyzes and prioritizes requirements for the improvement of the EHR 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. Uses automated and manual methods to measure data accuracy, completeness, consistency, computability, and timeliness to maintain data integrity and improve data qualityParticipates in team activities that utilize the group process to evaluate the recommended clinical information system program enhancements to clinical IT applications.VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total RewardsPay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awardsPaid 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 VAInsurance: 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 territoryWork Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00a-4:30p.Telework: Not Eligible.Virtual: This is not a virtual position.Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.