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SHIFT:Day (United States of America)Seeking Breakthrough Makers
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) offers countless ways to change lives. Our diverse community of more than 20,000 Breakthrough Makers will inspire you to pursue passions, develop expertise, and drive innovation. At CHOP, your experience is valued; your voice is heard; and your contributions make a difference for patients and families. Join us as we build on our promise to advance pediatric care-and your career.CHOP's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
CHOP is committed to building an inclusive culture where employees feel a sense of belonging, connection, and community within their workplace. We are a team dedicated to fostering an environment that allows for all to be their authentic selves. We are focused on attracting, cultivating, and retaining diverse talent who can help us deliver on our mission to be a world leader in the advancement of healthcare for children. We strongly encourage all candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.A Brief Overview
The Principal Nursing Informaticist is an advanced practice informatics nurse and expert internal consultant who partners with the Department of Nursing, Respiratory Care and Neurodiagnostic Services, providers, Allied Health, Business and DTS teams to support the successful, design, implementation, adoption and interoperability of clinical and non-clinical information systems across the CHOP enterprise. Also serves as the clinical lead during information system downtimes.What you will do
1. Leadership:
Serves as the Clinical Lead during information system downtimes. Coordinates clinical communication and guides clinical workflow processes during downtime events and through EHR reconciliation.
Serves as the hub of inter-professional communication and is a liaison between Digital & Technology Services and nursing, providers, allied health and non-clinical end users.
Develops and maintains effective partnerships with nursing and clinical leadership.
Analyzes clinical and non-clinical Digital & Technology Services to determine applicability to nursing and clinical practice, operational processes, administration and research.
Demonstrates exceptional critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Leads core and sub-teams for operational and implementation work.
Consults with individuals and groups in defining healthcare information problems, identifies methods for implementing, utilizing and modifying DTS solutions and data structures to support healthcare access, delivery and evaluation.
Works collaboratively with Nursing Shared Governance.
Identifies the impact of clinical and non-clinical Digital & Technology Services on clinical workflows and collaborates with stakeholders to mitigate identified risks.
Analyzes clinical and non-clinical Digital & Technology Services to determine applicability to nursing and clinical practice, education, business processes and research.
Communicates with key stakeholders, sponsors and internal customers, giving presentations, project updates and gathering input on key informatics initiatives.
2. Change & Quality Management:
Demonstrates advanced knowledge of system life cycles and complies with defined framework for system implementation for developing, reviewing, approving and disseminating changes clinical and non-clinical Digital & Technology Services.
Operationalizes change by using quality methodologies for standardizing processes in accordance with current evidence, quality initiatives, regulatory compliance, billing compliance.
Develops risk/benefit matrices of alternate solutions to help internal customers with decision making.
Recognizes the impact change on clinical and non-clinical systems and strategically plans communication and education to assure adoption across the system.
Collaborates with internal customers for problem identification and documents workflows (curren and future state requirements).
Assists with integrated and upgrade testing including script writing and obtains user sign off.
Performs gap analyses and works with clients to identify solutions to close identified gaps and mitigate risks.
Develops post implementation and transition to operation requirements.
Provides support for system upgrades
3. Process Improvement
Provides expert guidance and support in process improvement.
Serves as a project consultant in the design and implementation of complex Digital & Technology Services process improvement projects.
Expert ability to work with internal customers, obtaining system Validate what the customer requested and complete their design through the following methods: review (and document) current state; document requirements for future state; create workflow recommendations for clients; analyze gaps between current and future state and the software being implemented; collaborate with other Epic modules when designing workflow to be sure integration points are accounted for; liaise between the SA's and clinical and business teams; track progress of the work being completed; develop post implementation and transitional requirements and build and maintain customer relationships
Demonstrates advanced understanding of data and data quality standards.
Supports the integration of data, information and knowledge which are applied to decision support and business intelligence tools. (Data warehousing).
Develops auditing and review processes to ensure project goals and deliverables are met.
Collaborates with analysts to define system and technical requirements to complete the system build to meet the workflow chosen;
Participates in Epic Vendor visits/follow up visits and collaborates with the Center of Excellence Team for uploading of requirements documentation.
4. Research & Education:
Provides support to nursing research, assist clinical nurses in utilization of research and evidenced based practice.
Assists with the development of training materials and provides on-going support of clinical Digital & Technology Services.
Participates in scholarly activities including: writing for publication; presentation of a lecture, abstract or poster at a national conference.
5. On-Call Support:
Provides primary on-call support as the clinical lead for Digital & Technology Services downtimes.Education Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree Nursing Required
Master's Degree Nursing Informatics or related field of study PreferredExperience Qualifications
At least seven (7) years nursing experience. Required and
At least five (5) years informatics experience RequiredLicenses and Certifications
Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - Pennsylvania State Licensing Board - upon hire - Required and
Certified Informatics Nurse (RN-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center - within 18 months - Required or
Certified Professional in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CPHIMS) - Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) - within 18 months - Required
Project Management Certification (PMP) - Project Management Institute (PMI) - upon hire - Preferred or
Specialty Certification - in area of expertise - upon hire - PreferredSkills and Abilities
Information Security Requirements:
Understand and comply with all enterprise and IS departmental information security policies, procedures and standards.
Support the integration of information security in the development, design, and implementation of Hospital Technology Reso