Clinical Informaticist - Inpatient Nursing

• Position: Clinical Informaticist - Inpatient Nursing
• Location: Warrenville, IL
• Full Time
• Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
• Required Travel: travel to local corporate sites, hospitals will be required.
• Hybrid Position

Job Summary:

As the Clinical Informaticist- Inpatient Nursing at Endeavor Health, you will provide expertise in health informatics, acting as a bridge between clinical leadership and Information Technology (IT) teams. You will lead discussions, translate complex clinical nuances for IT professionals, and communicate IT capabilities in a user-friendly language to clinicians and operations throughout our integrated healthcare delivery system. As a change agent, you will influence cultural shifts to improve clinician satisfaction, transform personalized patient care, maximize efficiency and usability, foster innovation, and advance healthcare technology.

To be successful in this role, you will be expected to remain updated on the latest solutions and technologies and advocate for the adoption of industry best practices.

This role will focus on enhancing nursing care delivery and documentation within hospital settings.

What you will do:

Focus:Enhancing nursing care delivery and documentation within hospital settings.

Technology & Tools:Expertise in EHR systems (e.g., Epic Inpatient), bedside medication administration systems, clinical decision support tools, and real-time patient monitoring systems.

Data Analysis & Reporting:Analyzing inpatient nursing data to improve patient safety, reduce hospital-acquired infections, and optimize resource utilization. Developing reports on nursing-sensitive indicators (NSIs) and other quality metrics.

Workflow & Documentation:Designing and implementing standardized nursing workflows for admission, discharge, medication administration, and patient handoffs. Ensuring compliance with inpatient-specific regulatory requirements.

• Lead communication and establish relationships as a liaison between interdisciplinary areas and IT, identify synergies, and establish strong partnerships with IT professionals and clinical operations as a beacon of leadership and teamwork.
• Collaborate with and support colleagues across teams and leadership to investigate complex customer requests, consult stakeholders, deduce problems, discern urgency and breadth, and involve additional resources as needed to coordinate effective, efficient, and usable solutions.
• Lead meetings and serve on workgroups or committees, chart and present visualizations, design workflows, suggest optimizations to help ensure system efficiencies and help develop clinical decision support tools in alignment with evidence-based practice, patient safety, and optimal user experience.
• Plan and lead projects, formally document business requirements, analyze baseline data and derive actionable insights to help inform workflow build, measure baseline data, and monitor and transparently report effectiveness leveraging key outcome metrics.
• Articulate the implications of process changes, champion change management and user adoption, develop data-driven prototypes, and guide collaborative decision-making that enables technology to improve outcomes, advance strategic initiatives, and promote seamless coordination across the healthcare continuum.
• Partner with training team in developing training plan and/or documents by reviewing and providing feedback to ensure alignment with needs of the clinical end user.

What you will need:

• Education: Degree supporting attainment of clinical licensure (i.e. Nurse, Respiratory Therapist, Dietician, PT, OT, PharmD, APRN, PA, MD, DO) OR Bachelor's degree in related field OR equivalent experience.
• License: Current State of Illinois clinical licensure preferred
• Certification: Epic certifications specific to portfolio of responsibility preferred, professional informatics related certification(s) preferred.
• Experience: Four (4) years of healthcare experience including:
• Two (2) years of professional clinical or Two (2) years of health information technology
• Two (2) years of informatics or One (1) years of people management
• Unique or Preferred Skills:
• Strong working knowledge of Electronic Health Records (EHR), ServiceNow, Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tools, data analysis, and clinical documentation requirements
• Strong knowledge of healthcare laws, regulatory requirements, standards, and ontologies like HITECH, JCAHO, and SNOMED
• Excellent organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication with a customer service orientation
• Ability to plan, schedule, and facilitate agendas, minutes, slides, and summaries of informatics and governance meetings
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and ServiceNow
• Excellent organizational, analytical, critical thinking, project management, problem-solving, and decision-making with a data-driven approach
• Highly self-motivated and directed, autonomously manage work independently or as part of a team, provide informal guidance and exercise limited discretion under general direction

Benefits (For full time or part time positions):

• Premium pay for eligible employees
• Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development
• Various Medical, Dental, Pet and Vision options
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free Parking
• Wellness Program Savings Plan
• Health Savings Account Options
• Retirement Options with Company Match
• Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
• Community Involvement Opportunities

Endeavor Health is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system committed to providing access to quality, vibrant, community-connected care, serving an area of more than 4.2 million residents across six northeast Illinois counties. Our more than 25,000 team members and more than 6,000 physicians aim to deliver transformative patient experiences and expert care close to home across more than 300 ambulatory locations and eight acute care hospitals - Edward (Naperville), Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook (Glenview), Highland Park, Northwest Community (Arlington Heights) Skokie and Swedish (Chicago) - all recognized as Magnet hospitals for nursing excellence. For more information, visit www.endeavorhealth.org.

When you work for Endeavor Health, you will be part of an organization that encourages its employees to achieve career goals and maximize their professional potential.

Please explore our website (www.endeavorhealth.org) to better understand how Endeavor Health delivers on its mission to "help everyone in our communities be their best".

Endeavor Health is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please refer to the main career page for more information.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the core of who we are; being there for our patients and each other with compassion, respect and empathy. We believe that our strength resides in our differences and in connecting our best to provide community-connected healthcare for all.

EOE: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets, VEVRRA Federal Contractor.