Registered Nurse - Chief Nursing Informatics Officer

The Registered Nurse Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) advises leadership and drives standardized best practices across facilities. They lead change, collaborate across professions, and support national VHA clinical informatics strategy. They help define informatics as a VHA profession, promote best practices, and guide technology solutions for all clinical domains under the ADPCS.

The Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) serves as the primary advisor to facility leadership and other key officials to achieve standardization of best practices across facilities. Leads change and demonstrates an ability for interprofessional collaboration. Member of a nationwide Veterans Health Administration (VHA) team charged with actively and vocally supporting a successful national healthcare clinical informatics infrastructure for VHA and advancing national strategies for managing workflow and knowledge in clinical systems utilized by nursing staff. Participates in Veteran Affairs Central Office (VACO) activities to ensure that clinical informatics is established as a professional domain in VHA, and that best practices are identified, developed, and disseminated throughout the enterprise. Responsible for providing leadership in the development and use of informatics solutions and technology to support all clinical domains within an interprofessional methodology. Duties of the Registered Nurse Chief Nursing Informatics Officer include, but are not limited to: Provides oversight of the clinical informatics practice, by establishing effective and efficient clinical and administrative systems, designing meaningful decision support systems, managing calculated risks and associated mitigation strategies, and fostering lifelong clinical healthcare informatics domain knowledge and information that supports evidence-based practice, quality improvements and research. Provides leadership in designated projects and cross-coverage with other informaticists in the Veterans Affairs (VA). Fosters leadership and professionalism by providing communication that supports building internal and external agency coalitions creates alignments for clinical informatics best practices and leads clinical and health informatics initiatives and innovation across the enterprise. Responsible for leadership activities such as implementation, evaluation, monitoring and analyzing clinical and health processes to identify strategies to advance health data and health information systems to improve outcomes and support innovation. Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members, including other program and service leaders at the facility and Veterans Integrated Services Network (VISN). Work closely to establish and maintain effective relationships with all levels of Veteran Affairs (VA) staff nationwide. Provide leadership within the following eight core informatics functions: Application support Business architecture management Enterprise data management Content management System optimization Change management Requirements management Partnership management Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, day administrative work hours. Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). You may be required to serve a probationary period. Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.