Chief Nursing Information Officer and Senior Director, Nursing Informatics

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.

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.

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

The CNIO is a core participant in enterprise AI and digital health governance accountable for how emerging technologiesincluding AI automation and virtual nursingimpact nursing workflows and patient care.

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

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

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

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

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

Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) is required.
Masters 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.

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.