Registered Nurse - Informaticist

Bring your clinical expertise and interest in technology to a role where you can influence how care is delivered across the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System. As a Nurse Informaticist, you will serve as a vital connection between frontline clinicians, informatics leaders, and technology partners, helping transform clinical needs into practical, effective solutions. Through workflow improvement, end-user engagement, education, system optimization, and data-driven innovation, you will help clinicians work more efficiently and support safer, more coordinated Veteran care. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to Federal Electronic Health Record initiatives, guide meaningful change, collaborate across local and national informatics programs, and help build a high-reliability learning environment where technology strengthens both the Veteran and staff experience.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

- Optimize clinical workflows and information systems by evaluating current processes, identifying opportunities for improvement, and helping integrate standardized, evidence-based practices into daily operations.

- Support Federal Electronic Health Record implementation, sustainment, and optimization by troubleshooting issues, evaluating system requirements, validating new functionality, and helping advance technology solutions that meet clinical needs.

- Engage nurses and other clinical staff through huddles, usability check-ins, user forums, and other outreach to identify challenges, monitor system use, and promote effective adoption of informatics tools.

- Deliver timely education and just-in-time training on new workflows, system enhancements, documentation practices, and technology updates to help staff confidently use clinical information systems.

- Strengthen clinical decision support, documentation quality, and data integrity by evaluating information resources, supporting documentation standards, and promoting accurate, reliable, and interoperable health data.

- Lead and support change management for informatics initiatives by communicating system changes, coordinating enhancement requests, assessing workflow usability, and helping teams successfully transition to improved practices.

- Collaborate with the Chief Health Informatics Officer, clinical stakeholders, super users, and Office of Information and Technology partners to develop, implement, and sustain informatics solutions across care settings.

- Contribute to the growth and advancement of informatics practice by serving as a subject matter resource, mentoring new informatics staff, reporting initiative progress to leadership, and participating in Veterans Integrated Service Network and national informatics activities.

• English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
• Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program. Upon achievement of a State license, the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6); OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program. Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD).
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico) of the United States, or the District of Columbia. Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception: Candidates who otherwise meet the basic education requirements, but do not possess the required licensure, may be appointed at the entry step of the grade and level applicable to the completed nursing education as a GNT on a 120-day temporary appointment while actively pursuing licensure (may be extended up to two years on a case-by-case-basis.)

• Informatics expertise such as order set management, clinical reminders, templates, or dashboards used facility-wide, and serving as a subject-matter resource during system rollouts or technology assessments preferred.
• Informatics certification preferred
• Work experience spanning core informatics functions: content management, application/EHR support, health IT system optimization, enterprise data management, requirements management, and change management preferred.
• Direct experience in a Nursing Informatics or Clinical Informatics role preferred.

• 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.