This is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital located in West Omaha in a newly created position for a full time Clinical Informaticist.

The successful candidate will have:

• A Master's Degree in Nursing (MSN) with informatics experience required.
• A minimum of three years of nursing experience required.
• Perioperative experience is preferred.
• Extensive work related to project management.
• The ability to establish, plan, prioritize and implement strategies to achieve goals.
• The ability to work independently.

The Clinical Informaticist will be responsible for:

• Identifying the clinical data requirements of the patient across the hospital, as it relates to Quality and Safety. 
• Helping coordinate the advancement of clinical information system to satisfy these data requirements.
• Creating guidelines for vendor demonstration in order to most efficiently use hospital resources.
• Creating and chairing a Clinical Informatics Committee to represent the hospital and clinics.
• Working with vendor representatives to create and maintain a unified data dictionary for the hospital.
• Advocating for patients' needs and rights pertaining to the hospital's clinical information systems, including issues of confidentiality of medical information.
• Developing and implementing strategies to move the Hospital toward a fully integrated computerized patient record.
• Educating existing and new clinicians and staff across the hospital about plans for the information systems and relevant informatics issues.
• Setting up a clinicians hot line to answer questions and concerns.
• Ensuring order sets are standardized and integrated as appropriate.
• Working closely with clinicians, departmental leadership, Quality and Information System staff to clarify needs, prioritize requests, recommend technology design and execute change and adaption to the Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
• Participating in Clarus and other clinical applications design, validation, testing, staff education, etc.
• Maintaining in-depth knowledge of clinical applications utilized by Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital.
• Assisting with the collection and reporting of metrics.
• Monitoring applications use, system performance and hardware/software reliability.
• Developing, revising and maintaining nursing policies and procedures that reflect informatics best practices in collaboration with other departments.
• Developing and maintaining a positive working relationship with end user departments to ensure optimal utilization of the Hospital's clinical applications, while providing appropriate levels of end user training and education.

Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital provides a competitive salary and benefits package.

Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.