Summary
Date Posted: Monday, 05 July 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Nurse Informaticist, Electronic Health Records
Introduction
Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi is a private not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides tertiary and secondary level healthcare services. It is one of the hospitals in East Africa accredited by the Joint Commission International from USA. The University Hospital has been providing high quality care for the people of East Africa and beyond for over 60 years.
Job Summary
The EHR is primarily a clinical product, and via the CMIO, the Nurse Informaticist will ensure its clinical efficacy for all clinical care providers. The goal of the position is to ensure that design and build of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) information systems and technologies as clinically applicable to the Nursing responsibilities and workflows.

Requirements
• Diploma in Nursing, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.Sc. N) or Post RN B.Sc. N.
• Valid Nursing License is mandatory.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Nurse in the Acute, Ambulatory, or Emergency (A&E) setting.
• Demonstrable experience as a clinical nurse instructor, clinical nurse specialist, or nurse coordinator.
• Experienced with direct patient care responsibilities and clinically trained for inpatient and outpatient venues of care.
• Knowledge of hospital practice procedures, regulations, and guidelines.
• Prior experience with use of an electronic health record (EHR), preferred but not required.
• Self-motivated and with consistent willingness to personally address work that needs to be done.
• Solid understanding of clinical care pathways and flow of patient care.
• Comfortable working in a team-based environment, accepting personal responsibility of tasks assigned.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good grasp of use of data and analytics to improve clinical or operational outcomes (e.g. length of stay, adverse drug effects) or financial outcomes.
• Willingness to become an expert in clinical workflows as assigned.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Professional attitude with strong work ethic with attention to timeliness.

Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
• The Appointee will work directly with Physicians, Residents, Students, Nurses, and ancillary departments to coordinate, compile, and deploy content and workflows for the EHR.
• He/she may be instructed to lead a clinical workgroup, that would be responsible for all clinically relevant EHR build and settings. For example, he/she will enter and keep updated the Order Sets using Elsevier’s Content Management Software (CMS).
• Under direction of the CMIO and/or Lead EHR Physician (as assigned), he/she will work with IT build teams to map out future state workflows in the EHR.
• The Nurse Informaticist may be assigned to specific clinical areas, based on their level of training and experience.
• He/she will be trained as an EHR “Super User” to participate in system testing, provide direct end-user training, Go-Live support, and post-live optimization efforts.
• Act as a mentor to new Nurse Informaticist or nursing students.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure
Apply on the Aga Khan University Website VIA THIS LINK https://aku.taleo.net/careersection/ex/joblist.ftl?lang=en  

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