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Registered Nurse (Informaticist)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
About the Role
The Columbia VA Health Care System is recruiting for a Registered Nurse (Informatics). The Registered Nurse (Informatics) is the specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. This position facilitates the integration of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom to support patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings.
What You'll Do
- →The goal of the Registered Nurse (Informatics) is to improve the health of populations, communities, families, and individuals by optimizing information management and communication.
- →These activities include the design and use of informatic solutions and technology to support all areas of nursing and healthcare, including but not limited to the direct provision of care, establishing effective administrative systems, managing and delivering educational experiences, enhancing lifelong learning, and supporting nursing research.
- →Major duties include, but are not limited to the following: Incorporates theories, principles, and concepts from appropriate sciences into informatics practice.
- →Examples may include information, systems, and change theories.
- →Principles and concepts may include project management, implementation methods, workflow analysis, process redesign, organizational culture, or database structures.
- →Integration of ergonomics and human-computer interaction (HCI) principles into informatics solution design, development, selection, implementation and evaluation.
- →Systematically determines the social, legal, regulatory, and ethical impact of an informatics solution on nursing and healthcare.
- →Practice is base on nursing process and evidence based research.
- →Core competencies will depend on the individual role and competency checklist.
- →Remote: This is not a remote position.
Requirements
- ✓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 examination.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 8a0c34a0-d48c-4ff8-a9da-821f6dc890b8
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