Nurse Informaticist

About the position Allina Health is a not-for-profit health system that cares for individuals, families and communities throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. If you value putting patients first, consider a career at Allina Health. Our mission is to provide exceptional care as we prevent illness, restore health and provide comfort to all who entrust us with their care. This includes you and your loved ones. We are committed to providing whole person care, investing in your well-being, and enriching your career. Nursing Informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice. Nursing Informatics supports the company’s vision for Whole Person Care through the pursuit of maintaining and improving the information systems in a manner that is reliable and unobtrusive, preserving and promoting the therapeutic relationship. This role supports effective clinical and information systems by participating, and in some cases leading, in system assessment and evaluation through collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Clinical and information systems Provide support to patient care and operational areas in identifying, developing, implementing, and maintaining efficient, effective clinical information and operational systems.
• Actively seek opportunities to assess and evaluate systems and effectiveness for end-users as it relates to ease of use, alignment with nursing practice and promotion of positive patient care outcomes .
• Perform data analysis on performance and utilization of alerts, order sets, and patient outcomes to evaluate effectiveness of interventions and opportunities for optimization.
• Develop reports, spreadsheets, and databases using a variety of tools using data from multiple sources.
• Participate in the development, implementation and ongoing operation and optimization of clinical decision-making systems and processes and information systems that support effective, efficient, safe, timely, equitable and patient-centered care.
• Utilize the vision of whole person care, the principles of high reliability, and the nursing model of relationship-based care to shape future/ideal state designs.
• Lead informatics improvement projects under direction of the Senior.
• Participate/lead in other projects pertaining to organizational goals and strategies and regulatory requirements – both in consultative and project lead roles.
• Designs and refines team analysis processes and improvement tools in collaboration with the team.
• Evaluates usability and end-user solutions.
• Provide consultative informatics services to clinical and operational team members.
• Utilizes change management principles to support humans through the change process and the improvements.
• Communicates concepts and ideas in a way that matches the audience’s level of understanding
• Chooses appropriate communication methods.
• Promotes candor and diverse opinions.
• Deliver tough messages with respect and care.
• Uses positive influence to build a broad base of support for change.
• Follows relevant compliance regulations, guidelines and policies related to documentation and billing in daily work activities.
• Meets requirements for annual compliance education.
• Understands the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of the content and medical record.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing
• 2+ years experience in direct care nursing, inpatient or ambulatory
• Licensed Registered Nurse - MN Board of Nursing required

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in advanced degree in Nursing, Health Care Administration, Business, Leadership or Public Health
• 0 to 2 years in role in informatics or business analyst
• Nursing Informatics-willing to work towards preferred
• EPIC Certification preferred

Benefits

• Medical/Dental
• PTO/Time Away
• Retirement Savings Plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term/Long-term Disability
• Voluntary Benefits (vision, legal, critical illness)
• Tuition Reimbursement or Continuing Medical Education as applicable
• Student Loan Support Benefits to navigate the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

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