RN Clinical Informaticist

Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, is a 22-state network of more than 9,000 physicians, 63,000 employees, and 400 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging and surgery centers, home health, and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. For more information, please visit our website at www.dignityhealth.org. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

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This team member will sit at our Woodland Memorial Hospital location in Woodland, California.

As an Informaticist Healthcare Professional, you will leverage health information technology and data to optimize clinical workflows and enhance patient outcomes.

Every day you will analyze complex healthcare data, design informatics solutions, and collaborate with clinicians and IT to integrate systems toward improved usability and efficiency.

To be successful, you will bridge technology and clinical practice, demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and excellent communication to drive effective solutions and user adoption.

• Provide E.H.R. Alliance training to hospital staff in preparation for system implementation and upgrades and to new hospital staff/refresher training to existing employees and physicians. Assist with development and distribution of communication to staff regarding important events, planned downtimes, target dates, etc. Provide increased visibility and support during all downtimes, planned and unplanned.
• Assist with scheduling physicians for training pre/during go-live and provide training to designated physicians and provide direct support for physicians and their staff in use of handheld devices and remote access.
• Assist the staff in reporting problems with device performance.
• Coordinates optimization activities such as audits and assists in developing action plans, educational programs, and trains to continuously improve staff use of E.H.R. Alliance.
• Communicate needs/requests of clinicians and hospital staff to Senior Director of Clinical Informatics, GSSJA and Dignity Health staff as appropriate. Assist in the development of new policy and procedures related to electronic documentation.
• Design, implement and evaluate educational programs in collaboration with the Senior Director Clinical Informatics, GSSJA CNO's, CFO's, and E.H.R. Alliance Team.

Required

• Three (3) years experience in a hospital setting involved in patient care
• California RN license
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Interpersonal relationshp skills
• Understanding of current trends and issues in healthcare
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Organizational and priortization skills
• Ability to type accurately and rapidly
• Understanding of current nursing techniques, principles and practices
• Staff development and needs assessment techniques
• Expertise with computer applications in a Windows based environment

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Nursing