Summary

The 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. Duties Help May 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.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid 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 VA Insurance: 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 territory Work Schedule: 8 hour & potential 12 hour shifts available for day, evening, & night tours. May need to rotate to all shifts. Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Requirements

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• U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• All applicant