Whole Health System Of Care
The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.
Major duties include, but are not limited to:
- Serves as primary nursing informatics advisor to nursing leadership and key VA officials.
- Leads enterprise-wide standardization of nursing best practices and workflow optimization.
- Supports national VA nursing informatics infrastructure and participates in VACO initiatives.
- Develops and advances informatics solutions, decision support, and clinical technologies.
- Oversees nursing informatics practice, ensuring effective clinical and administrative systems.
- Manages risk mitigation strategies and promotes evidence-based practice and continuous learning.
- Provides leadership for projects and collaborates with informaticists across the VA enterprise.
- Builds internal and external coalitions to advance nursing informatics best practices.
- Leads implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of clinical and health information systems.
- Optimizes health IT systems and supports enterprise data and business architecture management.
- Performs partnership, requirements, and change management at an advanced proficiency level.
- Functions as administrator, educator, and mentor to support informatics competency development.
- Promotes interdisciplinary integration to achieve patient-centered and organizational goals
- Champions High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles and a culture of safety.
- Collaborates with facility, VISN, and national programs to strengthen informatics initiatives.
- Maintains effective relationships with VA staff nationwide to support enterprise alignment.
- Assists executive leadership with healthcare operations and strategic planning.
- Contributes to development of standards of care, policies, and objectives to enhance Veteran care.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards
Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
Work Schedule: Monday- Friday; 7:30 am to 4:00 pm, or 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Telework: Not Available.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.