Nurse Informaticist
South Shore Health
- Weymouth, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Understanding clinical workflows, operational procedures, and organizational policies to support the technical, cultural, and process changes necessary for successful implementation and optimization of the electronic health record at South Shore Health
- Clinical information systems liaison for physicians and nurses
- Collaborate with end users to help define health care information system problems and solutions by participating in enterprise wide and system wide improvement teams
- Provide frontline education and support for clinical staff for proper use and optimization of Epic and related clinical systems
- Stay abreast of current trends of clinical documentation to represent ideas and concerns for the effective use of South Shore Health Clinical Information Systems
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Advanced critical thinking and problem solving skills while demonstrating a high degree of objectivity, diplomacy, and tact
- Ability to apply nursing experience to improve the electronic health record and its adoption/intersection with clinical practice
- Able to manage priorities, deadlines, and execute tasks in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment
- MS Office Suite
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (MS in Nursing Informatics a plus)
- 3+ years of professional clinical nursing experience in acute care, ambulatory, or homecare
- Hands-on nursing informatics experience
- Current Massachusetts RN license
- Epic EHR software experience as a super user, trainer, or implementation project team member (knowledge of Epic Clinical modules preferred)
- Strong understanding of system analysis, system design, and process redesign including documentation of current and future state workflow processes
- ANCC Nursing Informatics Certification preferred