Nurse Informaticist (IT)

at  DaVita

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 4 - 6 years’ experience in Clinical Informatics
• Bachelor’s Degree or related Nursing Degree

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, TRAINING, OR QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• 2-3 years of clinical nursing experience, preferably working with complex chronic disease patients
• Possess and maintain a registered nurse or nurse practitioner licensure
• 2-3 years of change management experience with Cerner or Epic with at least 1 health system, hospital, or other large enterprise.
• Should be able to grasp complex clinical and business requirements and processes and document them effectively.
• Strongly skilled in the process of requirements elicitation, investigation, and ability to apply critical thinking in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical thinker with the ability to conceptualize a system in terms of both data/object model and application flows.
• Skilled in coordinating and facilitating meetings, both face-to-face and with remote attendees, with demonstrated ability to clearly state objectives and accomplish meeting objectives.
• Exceptionally skilled in communicating in the English language, both verbally and in writing.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Lifecycle using iterative methodologies.

Preferred

• A degree or certification in nursing informatics
• Demonstrated leadership and coaching skills, with supervisory experience preferred.

GENERAL PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Nurse Informaticist analyzes and translates clinical user needs to guide IT solutions to align with clinical workflows, aid patient care, and improve population-level health outcomes. This role is primarily tasked with translating clinical objectives to meet strategic goals needed in transforming patient care. The Nurse Informaticist role collaborates with both clinical and business leaders, managing key stakeholder relationships. This role actively demonstrates independent decision making and autonomy within IT solutioning.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Maintain an in-depth understanding of clinical objectives into IT solutions to meet strategic goals.

• Elicit requirements from clinical staff, OCMO, CMIO, product managers, product directors, product owners, UX teammates, business SMEs, operations, and executive leadership.
• Manage the requirement artifacts such as Solution Requirements Specifications, use cases, screen layouts, process flows, functional and non-functional requirements, and other design artifacts as needed.

Develop and manage a collaborative relationship between key stakeholders

• Work collaboratively with clinical and business leaders across all lanes to achieve consistency in areas such as: care delivery & documentation, improvements in care efficiency & patient outcomes, optimization in cost of care, and advances in patient/staff engagement & satisfaction.
• Act as a liaison between the clinical delivery teams/business partners that will be using the tools and solutions and the product teams, development engineers, QA analysts and related IT teams.

Clinical SME and consultant on behalf of the CMIO in various projects, meetings, and groups.

• Review and provide feedback for training materials and product communications. Conduct train-the-trainer and demo sessions as needed for clinical partners, trainers, helpdesk/support teams, and business partners.