Chief Nursing Information Officer and Senior Director, Nursing Informatics

Winchester, VA
Full Time
Senior Manager/Supervisor
Our client, Valley Health, is hiring Chief Nursing Information Officer and Senior Director, Nursing Informatics based in Winchester, VA.

The Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) is an executive leadership role responsible for spearheading nursing digital transformation across the health system. Reporting to the Chief Medical Information Officer, with a dotted-line relationship to the Chief Nursing Executive, the CNIO serves as the senior nursing leader accountable for translating frontline nursing practice and clinical operations into safe, efficient, and scalable digital workflows. The CNIO leads nursing informatics strategy and execution, ensuring alignment between clinical care delivery and enterprise technology, with a focus on improving patient safety, quality, and operational efficiency.

Executive Positioning and Scope

The CNIO is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and functions as a collaborator across nursing, medical, operational, and IT leadership. The role emphasizes influence, governance, and standards rather than direct budget ownership. Success is measured by demonstrable improvement in nursing workflows, experience, safety, and outcomes.

The CNIO represents nursing practice in enterprise governance structures and serves as the authoritative voice on how technology impacts clinical workflows.

Epic Authority and Informatics Governance

The CNIO leads Epic-based nursing workflows, documentation standards, and optimization efforts, with decision-making authority over nursing-facing configuration, design standards, prioritization, and adoption.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Defining and governing nursing informatics standards across the continuum of care
  • Ensuring alignment of systems with professional nursing practice
  • Leading implementation, evaluation, and continuous optimization of clinical systems
  • Partnering with clinical decision support and IT teams to advance evidence-based care

AI, Automation, and Digital Innovation

The CNIO is a core participant in enterprise AI and digital health governance, accountable for how emerging technologies—including AI, automation, and virtual nursing—impact nursing workflows and patient care.

The role evaluates and guides the integration of new technologies to ensure safe, effective, and scalable adoption.

Data, Analytics, and Decision Support

The CNIO ensures that nursing-facing data, analytics, and reporting are integrated into workflows and decision-making, in partnership with enterprise analytics and quality teams.

Accountabilities include:

  • Advancing nursing metrics, dashboards, and reporting
  • Aligning analytics with operational and quality priorities
  • Promoting the effective use of clinical business intelligence

Education, Change Management, and Adoption

The CNIO provides strategic leadership for nursing education and training related to digital workflows and tools.

As a system change leader, the CNIO:

  • Drives adoption of standardized workflows
  • Leads clinical transformation tied to technology implementation
  • Reduces documentation burden and supports workforce sustainability
  • Engages frontline staff, educators, and leaders in change efforts

Professional Practice and Governance

Partners with nursing leadership and professional governance structures to support shared decision-making, nursing excellence, and Magnet principles through optimized digital workflows.

Strategic Contributions

The CNIO contributes to enterprise strategy by:

  • Advising on adoption and scaling of clinical technologies
  • Supporting interdisciplinary performance improvement
  • Representing nursing informatics best practices internally and externally
  • Aligning technology initiatives with clinical and operational priorities

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) is required.
Master’s or doctoral degree in nursing, informatics, healthcare administration, or related field strongly preferred.

Experience

Minimum 5 years of leadership experience required.
Experience in clinical informatics, workflow design, or performance improvement preferred.

Licensure

Active RN licensure required.

Measures of Success

Success is evaluated by:

  • Improvement in nursing workflow efficiency and documentation burden
  • Adoption of standardized digital workflows
  • Nursing experience and engagement
  • Patient safety and quality outcomes

The role is defined by its ability to drive measurable transformation through governance and influence, not by direct budget ownership or span of control.

Share

Apply for this position

Required*
We've received your resume. Click here to update it.
Attach resume or Paste resume
Attach resume as .pdf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .txt, or .rtf (limit 5MB) or Paste resume

Paste your resume here or Attach resume file

To comply with government Equal Employment Opportunity and/or Affirmative Action reporting regulations, we are requesting (but NOT requiring) that you enter this personal data. This information will not be used in connection with any employment decisions, and will be used solely as permitted by state and federal law. Your voluntary cooperation would be appreciated. Learn more.
Invitation for Job Applicants to Self-Identify as a U.S. Veteran
  • A “disabled veteran” is one of the following:
    • a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or
    • a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
  • A “recently separated veteran” means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
  • An “active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran” means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
  • An “Armed forces service medal veteran” means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.
Veteran status


Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability
Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form CC-305
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 05/31/2026
Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Please check one of the boxes below:

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.

You must enter your name and date
Human Check*