Campus Associate Director of Nursing, Clinical Education

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Provides leadership in managing and implementing the clinical component of a comprehensive registered nurse program in support of University, campus, and/or departmental goals in order to assure compliance with programmatic accreditation and/or licensure, internal consistency, and to support the achievement of graduate outcomes that meet workplace and placement expectations. Responsible for integrating and harmonizing clinical and simulation with didactic experiences in support of helping students achieve exceptional outcomes, not the least of which is NCLEX success. Responsible for oversight of clinical faculty, student placements, and clinical partnerships for the Nursing program. Oversees, supervises and manages the Manager of Clinical Operations, Manager of Clinical Faculty, Manager of Clinical Relations, and the Simulation Manager while serving as a mentor and facilitator for faculty and students assigned to clinical sites. Supports the campus clinical team by conducting clinical site visits to enable an environment, which fosters creativity, responsiveness, and self-responsibility. Ensures that the clinical experience is aligned with associated didactic content and achieves the course learning outcomes. Collaborates with peers serving in the same capacity at other campuses to ensure consistency of approach between all locations.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the campus clinical component of the BSN program.
• Collects evaluation feedback from students, staff and clinical sites.
• Ensure that clinical partner satisfaction ratings are maintained or improved over time.
• Ensure student clinical experience satisfaction ratings maintained or improved over time.
• Conduct comprehensive clinical faculty observations and provide appropriate feedback or intervention in accordance with approved schedule.
• Oversight of all student and faculty clinical schedule/assignments processes.
• Oversight of the MCO process for students’ clinical orientation to include clinical packets; health and safety requirements.
• Oversight of accurate/timely student clinical grids submission to clinical partners.
• Responsible for the oversight of student clinical placements with identified facilities.
• Oversight of process for Manager of Clinical Operations attestation forms for student placements.
• Develops a process with the Manager Clinical Operations to ensure clinical placement requests are completed in an accurate and timely manner, either online or manually and confirmed.
• Ascertains projections placements, staffing, and student assignments for upcoming terms. Supports MCR lead development of sites to meet current and future placement needs.
• Advises the Campus Director of Nursing of the general effectiveness of the clinical education portion of the program.
• Provides follow-up and resolution plan to Campus Director of Nursing for issues identified with students and faculty in the clinical setting.
• Collaborates with the Campus Associate Director of Nursing, Academics in support of full time faculty assigned to a clinical assignment.
• Oversight of the Managers of Clinical Faculty process for orientation to new faculty regarding clinical facilities.
• Support Manager of Clinical Operations/Faculty in the assigning of faculty and students to clinical facilities.
• Supports the Managers of Clinical Faculty in ensuring that clinical faculty provides periodic feedback of clinical performance immediately after observation event and/or of overall student performance at midterm and end of semester
• Tracks and presents summary of clinical faculty evaluation data.
• Ensures that the Managers of Clinical faculty have a plan for all new adjunct clinical faculty to receive an onboarding plan and orientation as well as receiving the designated number of site visits and evaluations.
• Ensures that the MCF has processes in place for lead faculty to bridge theory and clinical education.
• Supports Manager of Clinical Faculty to find back up coverage for faculty absences / vacation.
• Support Simulation Manger with scheduling and staffing for Simulation / Skills Lab.
• In collaboration with Manager Clinical Relations, strives to develop strategic, enduring relationships with facilities that lead to outstanding placement opportunities to WCU graduates.
• Resolves conflicts / problems in the clinical setting with faculty.
• Ensures that the Manager of Clinical Relations completes agency preapproval required forms.
• Supports Manager of Clinical Relations with insurance and liability issues related to clinical sites, and provides appropriate documentation.
• Creates budget projections for clinical maintenance.
• Attends Advisory meetings to networ