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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:

Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities, with or without an accommodation, may result in disqualification from the position.

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.