Associate Vice President, Nursing Innovation and Digital Practice

adventisthealthcare; Gaithersburg (MD); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Adventist HealthCare seeks to hire an experienced Associate Vice President of Nursing Innovation and Digital Practice to lead the Epic team and advance clinical informatics across the enterprise.

Responsibilities include directing nursing informatics initiatives, workflow design, decision support, governance, and adoption activities; building a champion network; and partnering with leaders to optimize patient care through technology and data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited college or university is required.
• A master’s degree in nursing, nursing informatics, health informatics, healthcare administration, information systems, or a related field is required.
• Minimum 10 years of nursing or healthcare experience. EHR implementation or optimization, clinical systems, clinical education, quality improvement, or related work experience. Epic experience is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of management experience with responsibility for people, programs, budgets, and complex interdisciplinary initiatives.
• Current, active registered nurse license in the state of practice or valid multistate privilege is required.
• ANCC Informatics Nursing Board Certification (NI-BC) is preferred at hire and required within 24 months.
• Epic certification or proficiency is preferred.
• Must participate in travel, on-call coverage, and extended-hour support for implementations, upgrades, downtime, and time-sensitive support events.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned system nursing informatics initiatives from planning through implementation and optimization; define scope, workplans, milestones, risks, stakeholder roles, testing needs, readiness activities, and outcome measures.
• Provides executive nursing oversight for Epic and related clinical technologies across inpatient, ambulatory, procedural, and other care settings; directs workflow design, documentation standards, decision support, system configuration guidance, testing, implementation, lifecycle optimization, usability, and standardization.
• Builds and coordinates a system nursing informatics champion network; facilitates nursing workgroups and feedback channels, engages frontline nurses in design and validation, and elevates priorities and unresolved issues through governance.
• Leads change-management, communication, education, and adoption activities for nursing technology initiatives; collaborates with education, super users, and operational leaders to prepare end users and reinforce sustainable practice changes.
• Uses user feedback, clinical data, nursing-sensitive indicators, and adoption measures to identify improvement opportunities and recommend corrective action.
• Serves as a nursing liaison to the CNOs, IT, quality and safety teams, operational leaders, vendors, and Epic representatives; communicates status, dependencies, decisions, and escalation needs.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and care models, including AI, automation, mobile tools, virtual care, interoperability, and predictive analytics; leads pilots, risk review, measurement, scaling, and monitoring.

Skills

Nursing informatics leadership

Workflow analysis

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Epic experience

Communication skills

Healthcare leadership

Data-driven improvement

Education

BSN

Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

Epic

Job description

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Adventist HealthCare seeks to hire an experienced Associate Vice President of Nursing Innovation and Digital Practice for our Epic team who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

As an Associate Vice President of Nursing Innovation and Digital Practice, you will:

• Lead assigned system nursing informatics initiatives from planning through implementation and optimization; define scope, workplans, milestones, risks, stakeholder roles, testing needs, readiness activities, and outcome measures in alignment with enterprise clinical informatics priorities.
• Provides executive nursing oversight for Epic and related clinical technologies across inpatient, ambulatory, procedural, and other care settings; directs clinical workflow design, documentation standards, decision support, system configuration guidance, testing, implementation, lifecycle optimization, usability, and standardization.
• Builds and coordinates a system nursing informatics champion network; facilitates nursing workgroups and feedback channels, engages frontline nurses in design and validation, and elevates priorities and unresolved issues through established governance.
• Leads change-management, communication, education, and adoption activities for nursing technology initiatives; collaborates with education, super users, and operational leaders to prepare end users and reinforce sustainable practice changes.
• Uses user feedback, clinical data, nursing-sensitive indicators, and adoption measures to identify improvement opportunities, assess the effect of implemented changes, and recommend corrective action or further optimization.
• Serves as a nursing liaison to the CNO’s, IT, quality and safety teams, operational leaders, vendors, and Epic representatives; communicates status, dependencies, decisions, and escalation needs.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and care models, including artificial intelligence, automation, mobile tools, virtual care, interoperability, and predictive analytics; leads responsible pilots, risk review, measurement, scaling, and ongoing monitoring.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications include:

• Executive-level knowledge of a broad range of nursing practice, clinical operations, patient safety, quality improvement, clinical documentation, and the role of electronic health records and other clinical technologies in care delivery.
• Demonstrated skill in workflow analysis, implementation, optimization, and end-user support within defined governance and change-control processes.
• Ability to lead system-level nursing digital technology initiatives, organize work, manage competing priorities, identify risk and dependencies, and deliver measurable improvements without requiring formal supervisory authority.
• Strong communication, facilitation, listening, relationship-management, and change-management skills; ability to engage bedside nurses, nurse leaders, educators, physicians, analysts, and technical teams.
• Ability to translate nursing practice needs into clear workflow, configuration, testing, education, and adoption requirements and to communicate technical concepts in clinically meaningful terms.
• Knowledge of clinical data, nursing-sensitive indicators, user experience, adoption measures, data quality, patient-safety practices, privacy, regulatory requirements, and evidence-based performance improvement.
• Demonstrated initiative, adaptability, resilience, sound judgment, accountability, and ability to perform effectively during organizational change, upgrades, go-lives, downtime, and time-sensitive support events.
• Ability to develop and sustain an effective network of nurse champions and clinical partners and to facilitate frontline participation in system design, validation, and continuous improvement
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited college or university is required. A master’s degree in nursing, nursing informatics, health informatics, healthcare administration, information systems, or a related field is required.
• Minimum 10 years of nursing or healthcare experience. EHR implementation or optimization, clinical systems, clinical education, quality improvement, or related work experience. Epic experience is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of management experience with responsibility for people, programs, budgets, and complex interdisciplinary initiatives.
• Current, active registered nurse license in the state of practice or valid multistate privilege is required. ANCC Informatics Nursing Board Certification (NI-BC) is preferred at hire and required within 24 months. Epic certification or proficiency is preferred.
• Must maintain required professional credentials and participate in travel, on-call coverage, and extended-hour support for implementations, upgrades, dow