RN Nursing Education & Informatics Consultant Remote In Washington
About the position Responsibilities • Manages system upgrades and implementation, including management of clinical algorithms, troubleshooting and working with vendors when applicable. • Optimizes clinical decision support tools. • Serves as a liaison between IT and CNS clinical operations and managers. • Provides advice and consultation to clinical leaders regarding informatics-related topics, participates in clinical improvement projects. • Acts as system administrator for Epic Triage module and for Dawn AC. • Develops curriculum training to assure key clinical initiatives in quality, safety and practice improvement are integrated into practice. • Assures orientation programs for new nursing staff are completed and documented. • Collaborates with leaders and preceptors to implement strategies to monitor and evaluate clinical orientation. • Supports managers in achieving desired performance of clinical nursing staff. • Manages department clinical guidelines including timely review of protocols and ensuring content is reflected in the clinical systems. • Develops and maintains clinical standard work documents. • Provides clinical oversight and ad hoc clinical consultation to IT technical staff on topics such as interface design, clinical content decisions, etc. Requirements • Minimum two (2) years of nursing practice, preferably in an ambulatory care environment. • Masters degree in nursing or clinical informatics. • Registered Nurse License (Washington) required at hire OR Compact License: Registered Nurse required at hire. • Basic Life Support required at hire. • Prior experience in developing nursing educational programs. • Clinical operations experience including use of and training others on clinical information systems. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to interpret and summarize complex concepts. • Customer orientation. • Analytical and creative problem solving abilities. • Leadership and organizational skills. • Clinical expertise in team and program development, clinical practice in non-acute nursing, teaching, group facilitation, program evaluation, individual and group skills assessment, and adult learning theory. • Clinical informatics: building of clinical algorithms, data reporting, quality assessment, and assurance. Nice-to-haves • Five (5) years of experience in nursing management with clinical informatics experience.