Informatics Specialist – Nursing Dept

Summary
The purpose of this role is to work under the directive of the Director of Nursing Informatics, taking a pro-active role in the implementation of the IT Strategy, providing support and expanding capabilities in the areas of Clinical Information Systems (CIS) development & management, change management, training, research and administration. The Nursing Informatics specialists are responsible for participating in the planning, development, training, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of assigned Clinical Information Systems, relying on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Participate in the system resolution sessions concerned with the clinical information system implementation, identify and manage resistance to change and contribute to strategies to mitigate resistance. Ensure that the new initiatives introduced help to further the organizational objectives and fit in completely with its corporate vision and mission through analyzing requirements, designing programs, recommending system controls and protocols. Participates on the Nursing Informatics Team, establishing teamwork through appropriate deployment of process, technical, and human resources in collaboration with the Executive Director of Nursing Informatics, Director of Nursing Informatics and the Project Manager

Education / Qualification Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology 

Experience Post-Qualifications:

• Minimum of Five (5)years experience in healthcare related field.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Apply knowledge of computer science, information science, nursing, and informatics theory to nursing practice, education, administration, or research, in collaboration with other health informatics specialists.
•  Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications to resolve clinical or health care administrative problems.
• Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education and training, administration or research.
•  Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support patients, healthcare professionals, and their information management and human-computer and human technology interactions within health care contexts.
• Develop or deliver training and orientation programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed.
• Develop, implement or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes or structures to assist nurses with data management.
• Design, conduct, or provide support to nursing informatics research.
•  Maintains end user confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
•  Interface with service providers, clinical transformation team and other concerned parties to scope projects and direct the design development, build and validation cycle from inception to completion
•  Support the delivery and management of the Nursing Information Services function, including data quality assurance and other relevant information requirements.
• Lead, organize and facilitates meetings with service providers, clinical transformation team to gather and document requirements and explore any potential problems with the users.
• Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers using technical techniques.
• Conduct needs assessments with end users to identify users requirements
• Working closely with developers and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction
• Supporting work related to organizational and job design and nursing staff role definition required.
• Involvement in communicating with and preparing nursing staff for changes and building commitment on individual base.
• Provide consultation on complex projects and is considered to be the top level contributor/specialist.
• Address nursing concerns or potential problems that may negatively affect the organization and makes recommendations to top management based
• Assist in the delivery of stakeholder engagement and communications activities to promote awareness, information and engagement within the business
• Develop or implement policies, competencies or practices for introducing, evaluating or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research in a way ensuring the privacy, confidentiality, or security of information and enhancing nursing practice.
• Participates in the development of clinical informatics protocols, policies, procedures, and quality metrics; and works to assure compliance with regulations.
• Assists in continually up-date and improve presentation and materials to stay abreast of new technology and ideas.
• Enable, promote and support the effective use of data, information and knowledge and technology to support and improve health and health care delivery
•  Apply the philosophy, tools and techniques of the systems development life cycle to assigned projects to the Informatics team.
• Managing regulatory authority applications and approvals that oversee the research and marketing for new and existing informatics projects and trends
• Prioritizing and managing many open cases at one time
•  Prepares regular technical, analytical and statistical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Monitor costs to ensure consistency with budget and justify expenditures.
• Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public.
• Expand the body of knowledge and focus on developing new methods improving the quality of patients’ care.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state of- the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
• Participates in committees, as assigned.
• Familiar with a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures
• Perform other duties as assigned