Clinical Placement Coordinator
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
Job posting number: #7126396 (Ref:BSU35963)
Posted: February 23, 2023
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
The Clinical Placement Coordinator works collaboratively with School of Nursing leadership, faculty, staff, and students to establish and expand clinical placements for students. This position also works collaboratively with health care facilities, healthcare providers, and preceptors to arrange student placement and meet baccalaureate and graduate programs’ clinical outcomes.
Ball State University’s School of Nursing welcomes applications for a Clinical Placement Coordinator.
The School of Nursing embraces an innovative and collaborative approach that:
Facilitates learning through an interactive and inter-professional educational environment.
Inspires engagement in service and lifelong learning through high quality and diverse experience.
Engages in research and education to enhance quality of life, reduce health disparities, and improve access to care within communities across the lifespan.
The university offers excellent benefits, including health care and retirement plans, tuition assistance for employees and dependents, and generous time off with pay.
The School of Nursing embraces an innovative and collaborative approach that:
Facilitates learning through an interactive and inter-professional educational environment.
Inspires engagement in service and lifelong learning through high quality and diverse experience.
Engages in research and education to enhance quality of life, reduce health disparities, and improve access to care within communities across the lifespan.
The university offers excellent benefits, including health care and retirement plans, tuition assistance for employees and dependents, and generous time off with pay.
Job Function:
The Clinical Placement Coordinator works collaboratively with School of Nursing leadership, faculty, staff, and students to establish and expand clinical placements for students. This position also works collaboratively with health care facilities, healthcare providers, and preceptors to arrange student placement and meet baccalaureate and graduate programs’ clinical outcomes.
Minimum Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Higher Education, or related field.
Preferred Education:
Earned master’s degree in nursing from an accredited college or university by date of employment.
Minimum Experience:
Two or more years of related experience.
Preferred Experience:
Experience with advising graduate students.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Track and verify health clearance and background check requirements for assigned students; guide students through the purchase of health clearance and background check packages; read and decipher students' medical records, including vaccination records, blood test titer results, TB test results; review criminal background checks for possible criminal infractions and report to the Director and appropriate Associate Director; communicate with background check and health clearance vendor(s) representatives.
- Collaborate on special projects with the Associate Directors, Director, and faculty.
- Coordinate and manage clinical placements of baccalaureate and graduate students in collaboration with the Associate Directors and health care community partners to ensure diversity of clinical learning experiences.
- Deliver onboarding/orientation for preceptors, including clear outcomes and expectations for students and preceptors.
- Serve as member of Baccalaureate, Master's and DNP Curriculum Committees.
- Coordinate and manage student orientations in collaboration with the Associate Directors.
- Collaborate with Graduate School and verifying graduation clearance.
- Collaborate and participate with Division of Online and Strategic Learning in maintaining and expanding State Authorizations.
- Develop and update plans of study for current graduate nursing students.
- Conduct gap analysis and complete education verifications. Responsible for ensuring appropriate referrals based on timely and accurate assessment within 48-72 hours.
- Collaborate with Graduate Program Coordinator to ensure documents submitted in Core are aligned with the required admissions and clinical placement workflow process.
- Provide the Associate Directors statistical information, nursing organizational surveys, annual and semester graduate student applications, admissions, etc.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Stay up to date on operational procedures for American DataBank and CB Bridges.
At Ball State University, we recognize inclusive excellence as an integral endeavor to fulfill our University’s mission and our strategic plan. We recruit, support, and retain a diverse population of students, faculty, and staff. We encourage and reward diversity of thought. We promote a work environment that encourages and rewards innovation and creativity. We pledge to keep Inclusive Excellence at the highest level of institutional importance and as a foundation in all that we strive to do. Our over-arching goal for Inclusive Excellence is to adopt a university-wide Inclusive Excellence approach to academic, administrative support, and service functions of the university. We believe Inclusive Excellence must be infused in every step we take.
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