Manager, Clinical Education PA

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Reporting directly to the Program Director, PA and working closely with the Associate Dean, this role is responsible for maintaining clinical sites, student placements and contractual agreements and assisting the Manager, Clinical Relations with securing new clinical affiliations for the Nursing program. Provides professional leadership and support for clinical teaching faculty; serves as a mentor and facilitator for faculty assigned; and enables an environment which fosters creativity, responsiveness, and self-responsibility. Oversees, supervises and manages faculty and students assigned to clinical sites, makes phone or on site visits, mediates conflicts, establishes specific learning objectives, records attendance, and supervises clinical affiliations to ensure that the experience is adequate and achieves a satisfactory level of performance. Remains current in applicable program field, participates in faculty meetings, instructional seminars, and in-service training sessions. Participates in campus activities such as faculty meetings, student functions, graduation exercises, open houses, new student orientations, and advisory board meetings.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing and maintaining student clinical placements with identified facilities. Requests clinical placements, online and manually, and confirms.
• Advises the Campus Dean, Nursing of the general effectiveness of the clinical education portion of the program. Assesses and evaluates clinical sites to ensure that clinical objectives are met.
• Plans, coordinates, and manages faculty and students assigned to clinical facilities.
• Collects evaluation feedbacks from students, staff and Clinical sites. Ensures clinical faculty provides periodic feedback of clinical performance immediately after observation event and/or of overall student performance at midterm and end of semester.
• Orients students to clinical packets, health and safety requirements.
• Assists Campus Dean, Nursing with strategic planning for clinical relationships and placements.
• Works with Registrar for student's clinical placement release in campus.
• Validates with clinical affiliate staff the effectiveness of student placement and progress in meeting mutually established objectives.
• Implements faculty feedback from clinical rotations. Evaluates the effectiveness of clinical experience. Disseminates information.
• Coordinates and provides orientation to new faculty regarding clinical facilities.
• Strives to develop strategic, enduring relationships with facilities that lead to outstanding placement opportunities to West Coast University graduates.
• Provides clinical instructors with training related to the program.
• Performs the on-site evaluation of Clinical Faculty and submits completed evaluation to Campus Dean, Nursing on time and with required level of quality.
• Coordinates a plan to best observe, instruct, and evaluate student's learning and clinical practical skills and faculty performance which includes a direct observation clinical assessment of skills in applicable setting for related area of instruction.
• Ascertains projections placements, staffing, student assignments for upcoming terms. Proactively leads development of sites to meet current and future placement needs.
• Identifies specialties; OB, PEDs. Psych., Adv., MS, Public Health.
• Identifies clinical sites and creates schedules which support the student clinical requirements.
• Creates reports for facilities.
• Strengthens relationships with facilities.
• Changes clinical placements (i.e. failing classes, last minute decisions, etc.) during the term.
• Establishes and maintains communication lines between the clinical facilities and staff as well as ACC where both institutions utilize sites.
• Supervises faculty and students completing clinical rotations, including phone or on site visits.
• Resolves conflicts / problems in the clinical setting with faculty.
• Creates budget projections for clinical maintenance.
• Collects and maintains appropriate documentation related to clinical education, such as health forms, CPR certification, student evaluations and site evaluations.
• Completes agency preapproval required forms to meet BRN and other regulatory needs.
• Works toward a consistent approach towards the management and development of clinical relationship vis-�- vis other West Coast University campuses.
• Maintains accurate clinical site information database, including contact information and specific contractual agreement termination and expiration dates, and initiates renewal process timely.
• Works with clinical affiliate staff to clarify policies and procedures specific to facili