AVP - Associate Vice President - Nursing Informatics

OU Medicine, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OU Health is seeking an AVP for Nursing Informatics to align technology and digital investments with clinical practice across the enterprise. This senior leader will bridge nursing care delivery, workflow optimization, and informatics to optimize governance and EMR workflows.

The role includes planning, budgeting, contracting, and project oversight for implementation and optimization efforts, with focus on translating care delivery into evidence-based information systems that improve quality,

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required; Master’s degree in Nursing, Nursing Informatics, Healthcare Administration, or related field required.
• If graduate degree is not in Informatics, certification is required at time of hire.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive nursing leadership experience, including direct experience in clinical informatics, EMR optimization, or digital health strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own the nursing informatics and digital strategic roadmap, including planning, budget, contracting, and project oversight for implementation and optimization efforts.
• Own nursing clinical documentation governance to ensure alignment with scope of practice and policy integration.
• Evaluate advanced technologies, AI, and clinical applications for implications to nursing practice and workflow.
• Translate clinical care delivery needs into EMR workflow design that aligns people, process, and technology.
• Align and inform digital platform strategy with organizational strategy domains and nursing priorities to elevate quality, safety, and engagement.
• Provide oversight of nursing documentation build and design, in partnership with virtual nursing and care process workflow development to scale.
• Direct nursing dashboards for key performance measures and Nurse Sensitive Indicators, including central line and catheter bundle compliance, predictive analytics, hourly rounding, and medication safety.
• Lead change management for nursing informatics and advanced technology initiatives in partnership with the ETS PMO for Clinical Operations.
• Evaluate, recommend, plan, and provide project oversight for emerging technologies, including AI-enabled clinical workflows.
• Lead and develop the Nursing Informatics team, including alignment of clinical informatics and translation of data to practice for nursing leaders, and support for nursing leadership and front-line nurses — including the Epic Nursing Super User program.
• Development and implementation of a system-wide Nurse Clinical Documentation Governance structure.

Skills

Nursing informatics

EMR optimization

Epic EMR

Data analytics

Change leadership

Governance

Budgeting

Education

BSN

MSN or related field

Tools

Epic EMR

EMR workflow design

Job description

Position Title

AVP - Associate Vice President - Nursing Informatics Department: Nursing Administration

Job Description

The AVP, Nursing Informatics is a senior nursing leader responsible for aligning technology and digital investment with clinical practice across OU Health. This role bridges nursing clinical care delivery, workflow optimization, and informatics — owning nursing clinical documentation governance to ensure alignment with scope of practice and policy integration, and evaluating advanced technologies, AI, and clinical applications with implications for nursing practice or workflow. The AVP will align and inform digital platforms with organizational strategy domains and nursing priorities to elevate quality, safety, and engagement, and will own the nursing informatics and digital strategic roadmap — including planning, budget, contracting, and project oversight for implementation and optimization efforts. The focus of this role is to translate clinical care delivery into EHR workflows in a way that aligns people, process, and technology to support evidence-based information systems that enable the delivery of efficient and effective nursing care across the enterprise.

Essential Responsibilities

• Own the nursing informatics and digital strategic roadmap, including planning, budget, contracting, and project oversight for implementation and optimization efforts.
• Own nursing clinical documentation governance to ensure alignment with scope of practice and policy integration.
• Evaluate advanced technologies, AI, and clinical applications for implications to nursing practice and workflow.
• Translate clinical care delivery needs into EMR workflow design that aligns people, process, and technology.
• Align and inform digital platform strategy with organizational strategy domains and nursing priorities to elevate quality, safety, and engagement.
• Provide oversight of nursing documentation build and design, in partnership with virtual nursing and care process workflow development to scale.
• Direct nursing dashboards for key performance measures and Nurse Sensitive Indicators, examples are central line and catheter bundle compliance, predictive fall analytics, hourly rounding, medication safety, IV pump integration, and AI enabled applications.
• Lead change management for nursing informatics and advanced technology initiatives affecting nursing practice, in project partnership with the ETS PMO for Clinical Operations.
• Evaluate, recommend, plan, and provide project oversight for emerging technologies, including AI enabled clinical workflows.
• Lead and develop the Nursing Informatics team, including alignment of clinical informatics and translation of data to practice for nursing leaders, and support for nursing leadership and front-line nurses — including the Epic Nursing Super User program.
• Development and implementation of a system-wide Nurse Clinical Documentation Governance structure.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required; Master's degree in Nursing, Nursing Informatics, Healthcare Administration, or related field required. If graduate degree is not in Informatics, certification is required at time of hire. Experience: Minimum of 5 years of progressive nursing leadership experience, including direct experience in clinical informatics, EMR optimization, or digital health strategy.

License(s)/Certification(s)/Registration(s) Required

Current Registered Nurse (RN) license, or eligible for licensure in the state of Oklahoma.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of nursing practice, clinical operations, evidence-based care, and the relationship between clinical workflows, documentation, technology, quality, and patient safety.
• Expert knowledge of nursing informatics principles, clinical documentation standards, scope-of-practice requirements, information governance, and policy integration.
• Strong knowledge of electronic health record architecture, nursing documentation design, clinical decision support, interoperability, data standards, and enterprise EMR optimization.
• Strong knowledge of clinical documentation standards, scope-of-practice requirements, healthcare quality measurement, Nurse Sensitive Indicators—including NDNQI—regulatory and quality reporting requirements, data integrity, analytics, dashboard design, and performance improvement methodologies.
• Knowledge of strategic planning, portfolio and project governance, budgeting, contracting, vendor management, and benefits realization within a complex health system.
• Advanced skills in leading Epic or comparable EMR system builds, governance, and optimization at the hospital or enterprise level, including clinical workflow analysis, process mapping, requirements definition, solution design, testing, implementation, and continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical and data-literacy skills, including the ability to evaluate performance measures, identify trends and risks, assess technology impact, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Highly effective change leadership, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills across clinical, operational, technical, and executive groups.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex clinical and technical concepts clearly to audiences at all organizational levels.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, delegation, performance management, team development, and succession-planning skills.
• Ability to establish and sustain enterprise-wide governance for nursing documentation, clinical informatics standards, digital solutions, and prioritization of technology investments.

OU Health is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including PTO, 401(k), medical and dental plans, and many more. We know that a total benefits and compensation package, designed to meet your specific needs both inside and outside of the work environment, create peace of mind for you and your family. OU Health is the state’s only comprehensive academic health system of hospitals, clinics and centers of excellence. With 11,000 employees and more than 1,300 physicians and advanced practice providers, OU Health is home to Oklahoma’s largest doctor network with a complete range of specialty care. OU Health serves Oklahoma and the region with the state’s only freestanding children’s hospital, the only National Cancer Institute-Designated OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, Oklahoma’s flagship hospital, which serves as the state’s only Level 1 trauma center and Edmond Medical Center in the heart of the Edmond Community. Becker’s Hospital Review named University of Oklahoma Medical Center one of the 100 Great Hospitals in America for 2020. OU Health’s oncology program at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center was named Oklahoma’s top facility for cancer care by U.S. News & World Report in its 2020-21 rankings. OU Health also was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as high performing in these specialties: Colon Surgery, COPD and Congestive Heart Failure. OU Health’s mission is to lead healthcare in patient care, education and research. Experts in prevention, treatment and cures, our team works to improve lives through innovation in medical care, education and research, while investing in the people, technologies and facilities that will enable us to achieve our goals. We are seeking individuals who have a passion and talent for caring for others. By joining our team, you will provide quality health care to our community through the work you do every day. We provide clinical and non-clinical opportunities to further your career and we invite you to explore our available positions.

Equal employment opportunities are provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or protected veteran status in accordance with applicable federal laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Reasonable accommodations are made to the known physical and mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities.