Position Summary:

The Traditional BSN Clinical Coordinator facilitates partnerships with healthcare organizations and community agencies to develop clinical site opportunities to support the education of students in the Kramer School of Nursing Pre-licensure Undergraduate Program. The Coordinator is responsible for identifying, recruiting, and maintaining clinical placement opportunities for students in support of established curriculum, success measures and compliance requirements. The coordinator serves as the primary touchstone for students, faculty, and external entities throughout the placement acquisition and assignment process.

The Clinical Coordinator reports the KSN Operations Manager and works closely with the Chair of the BSN program, and with other staff and faculty within the Kramer School of Nursing.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of two years’ direct experience in coordinating clinical placement or three years’ experience in health care management, health care delivery, and/or higher education administrative coordination.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree is preferred
  A suitable combination of education and experience may be substituted for minimum qualifications.

Job Duties:

Demonstrate an attitude and behaviors that reflect the mission and values of the university and the Kramer School of Nursing.

Identify, establish, and maintain relationships with clinical sites and preceptors:

• Identify new clinical site/affiliation agreements designed to support high-quality student learning experiences
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with clinical sites and agencies
• Maintains records of clinical contracts and updates records as necessary
• Negotiates clinical placement with NESA group

Coordinate administrative activities associated with clinical placement of students:

• Maintain required records and files as defined by the NESA group
• Primary administrator of the My Clinical Exchange System for faculty and students
• Works closely with TBSN Chair and/or TBSN Coordinator to determine faculty and adjunct faculty assignments to clinical groups
• Maintains records of student placement in clinical facilities
• Maintains records of student and faculty absences from assigned clinical days
• Works closely with TBSN Char and/or TBSN Coordinator to arrange for substitutes for faculty absences
• Works closely with TBSN Chair and/or TBSN Coordinator and the Director of Operations to ensure all new clinical adjunct faculty are onboarded, oriented, monitored and evaluated
• Works closely with TBSN Chair and/or TBSN Coordinator to monitor drug and background screening of all TBSN students as required by facility partners
• Works closely with the Director of the Meinders Simulation Center to schedule simulations for students during their clinical rotations

Serve as the primary staff touchstone for TBSN students throughout the clinical placement process:

• Advise students of clinical assignment, clinical faculty, preceptor, and oversight faculty information
• Serve as the liaison between students and clinical sites; communicates all site-specific requirements to students
• Troubleshoots placement and scheduling issues as they arise
• Works with TBSN Chair and/or Coordinator to arrange for make-up clinical days