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What you will accomplish in this role
The Consulting Informatics Nurse Specialist leads enterprise nursing informatics projects and assigned portfolio initiatives from planning through implementation, optimization, adoption, and sustainment handoff. The role serves as the accountable project or program lead for clinical informatics work, translating clinical, operational, and technology needs into executable plans, measurable outcomes, governance artifacts, and field-ready standards. The Consulting Informatics Nurse Specialist leads cross-functional stakeholders, directs Senior Informatics Specialist work as assigned, manages risks and decisions, and ensures initiatives improve clinician workflow, patient care operations, and adoption of health information systems and clinical applications across hospitals and patient care areas.
Major Responsibilities
Role Scope and Differentiation
- Serves as the accountable project or program lead for assigned enterprise portfolio work and programs.
- Owns project delivery from intake and planning through readiness, implementation, adoption, optimization, hypercare, and sustainment handoff.
- Leads project cadence, stakeholder facilitation, decision management, risk and issue escalation, adoption strategy, and outcome tracking.
- Directs and coordinates Senior Informatics Specialist contributions, including readiness support, education materials, data monitoring, standards documentation, and optimization follow-up.
- Partners with Directors of Operations and Product & Performance to align phase gates, roadmaps, prioritization, thresholds, standards, and executive-ready updates.
Strategy and Program Leadership
- Lead health information and clinical technology activities for assigned enterprise informatics initiatives and portfolio programs.
- Translate clinical, operational, and IT requirements into clear project scope, implementation strategy, success measures, standards, and decision needs.
- Apply enterprise frameworks, phase gates, governance processes, prioritization criteria, and definition-of-done expectations to assigned initiatives.
- Represent nursing informatics interests with clinical, operational, IT, facility, division, corporate, vendor, and executive stakeholders.
- Identify high-value opportunities to improve clinical workflow, safety, reliability, adoption, and operational performance based on data and observation.
Project Delivery and Operations
- Lead technology implementations and optimization initiatives that support and enhance clinician workflow and patient care operations.
- Own project plans, readiness approach, stakeholder engagement, education strategy, communication plan, hypercare model, and sustainment handoff.
- Facilitate program execution huddles, go/no-go preparation, issue resolution, and cross-functional coordination for assigned book of work.
- Direct workflow analysis, implementation support, adoption reinforcement, and operational support across facilities and divisions.
- Coordinate Senior Informatics Specialist work products, including toolkits, job aids, standards, dashboards, readiness checklists, education materials, and optimization documentation.
- Manage RAID items, decisions, dependencies, barriers, and escalations; ensure owners, dates, and follow-through are clear.
Governance, Data, and Optimization
- Establish and disseminate best practices, standard work, implementation toolkits, audit tools, and sustainment expectations for integrated technologies.
- Partner with Product & Performance leadership to define metrics, thresholds, baseline/current/target views, optimization triggers, and outcome reporting.
- Use performance data, adoption signals, frontline feedback, and workflow observations to prioritize optimization actions and remeasurement plans.
- Prepare clear executive, corporate, division, and facility communications that summarize status, risks, decisions needed, outcomes, and next actions.
- Ensure lessons learned are incorporated into standards, playbooks, governance artifacts, and future release planning.
Performance and Professional Skills
- Lead project work to agreed timelines, scope, quality expectations, and measurable outcomes.
- Build strong relationships across diverse teams, functions, leadership levels, and stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrate advanced organizational, analytical, facilitation, change leadership, and communication skills.
- Maintain proficiency in Microsoft products, collaboration tools, project tracking methods, and business intelligence tools.
- Demonstrate ongoing commitment to clinical informatics, performance improvement, clinical operations, leadership development, and professional growth.
Education & Requirements
- Master's degree, Informatics or related field required
- Active RN license required
- 7+ years combined experience in nursing informatics and clinical practice required
- Board Certified in Nursing Informatics Preferred
- This role is based in Nashville, TN with 50% travel required
At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to fostering a culture of growth that allows you to build the career of a lifetime. We encourage you to apply for ourConsulting Informatics Nurse Specialisttoday. We review all applications promptly, and qualified candidates will be contacted to continue the process. Join us!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
