Nurse Informaticist - Willowbrook

Overview

At Houston Methodist, the Nurse Informaticist position is responsible for leadership, planning, and coordination of technology initiatives to meet clinical business goals and objectives for customers and serves as the architect for innovative technology solutions to enhance clinical practice. This position educates and assists leadership in developing strategies to respond to industry drivers that can be impacted by information solutions; the incumbent will interact with all levels of the organization, from front-line staff to senior management. The Nurse Informaticist position collaborates with executive leaders and system hospitals for sharing best practices, reporting methodologies, and ensuring a system approach to decisions. This position collaborates with information technology (IT) and clinical leaders/executives on strategic initiative spanning over years that impact business operations and works to ensure project success.

Houston Methodist Standard

PATIENT AGE GROUP(S) AND POPULATION(S) SERVEDRefer to departmental "Scope of Service" and "Provision of Care" plans, as applicable, for description of primary age groups and populations served by this job for the respective HM entity.

HOUSTON METHODIST EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS

• Provide personalized care and service by consistently demonstrating our I CARE values:
  • INTEGRITY: We are honest and ethical in all we say and do.
  • COMPASSION: We embrace the whole person including emotional, ethical, physical, and spiritual needs.
  • ACCOUNTABILITY: We hold ourselves accountable for all our actions.
  • RESPECT: We treat every individual as a person of worth, dignity, and value.
  • EXCELLENCE: We strive to be the best at what we do and a model for others to emulate.

• Practices the Caring and Serving Model

• Delivers personalized service using HM Service Standards

• Provides for exceptional patient/customer experiences by following our Standards of Practice of always using Positive Language (AIDET, Managing Up, Key Words)

• Intentionally collaborates with other healthcare professionals involved in patients/customers or employees' experiential journeys to ensure strong communication, ease of access to information, and a seamless experience

• Involves patients (customers) in shift/handoff reports by enabling their participation in their plan of care as applicable to the given job

• Actively supports the organization's vision, fulfills the mission and abides by the I CARE values

Responsibilities

PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Serves as liaison between IT and hospital leadership to facilitate system enhancement decisions through the governance process for impacted groups.

• Leads Subject Matter Experts (SME's) and super users' engagement in design, usability, and system testing.

• Coordinates and/or provides direct support to clinicians for EHR and other clinical systems and technology changes, implementations, or downtimes.

• Advises Senior Leadership on the role and function of information management in operations and on information systems and technology trends.

• Participates in hospital-wide and system-wide committees as a designee of the Chief Nursing Informatics Executive to impact technology decisions that improve organizational processes, performance, and outcomes.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Assesses opportunities for technology improvements through collaboration with frontline clinicians to understand workflows and review of data to accurately define the problem, develop solutions to defined outcomes.

• Develops and implements communication strategies throughout the organization/system to ensure accurate information regarding key technology initiatives: goals, objectives, purpose, improvement strategies, status, and outcomes.

• Facilitates, plans, and directs the development, implementation, evaluation, and optimization of new applications, enhancement to existing applications, or technologies to ensure clinical/nursing goals are achieved.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Supports development and adoption of standards for evidenced-based knowledge practice and collaborates with educators to create education or competencies as appropriate.

• Ensures clinical systems design compliance with regulatory and certification program requirements in collaboration with quality and regulatory experts.

• Leads in the development and execution of clinical integration and improvement strategies for value-added patient outcomes, enhance efficiencies and reduced variation in care.

FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Collab