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Working Title:
Clinical Coordinator, MnSCU Academic Professional 3
Institution:
Minnesota State College Southeast
Classification Title:
MnSCU Academic Professional 3
Bargaining Unit / Union:
214: Minnesota Association of Professional Employees
City:
MSSE - Winona CampusRed Wing
FLSA:
Job Exempt
Full Time / Part Time:
Full time
Employment Condition:
Unclassified - Unlimited Academic
Salary Range:
$28.75 - $42.16
Job Description
The position is best constructed as a full-time 12-month staff role where the nurse educator performs both instructional and non-instructional activities to support the nursing program(s) at Winona and Red Wing Campuses.
Responsible for the overall success of clinical placement through high-level planning, communication of clinical placements, skills and simulation lab operation for the nursing programs and instruction and instructional support to faculty and students.
Clinical, Skills Laboratory and Simulation Coordinator is responsible for coordinating, implementing, and evaluating clinical placement & scheduling, skills laboratory activities, and simulation-based learning experiences that support student achievement of program outcomes and regulatory requirements. This role serves as a liaison among students, faculty, healthcare agencies, preceptors, simulation staff, and community partners to ensure high-quality clinical education and experiential learning opportunities.
The coordinator provides leadership for clinical placement processes, skills laboratory operations, simulation activities, student compliance tracking, and faculty support while promoting excellence in teaching, learning, safety, accreditation compliance, and community partnerships. The position combines instructional and operational responsibilities to ensure effective integration of classroom, laboratory, simulation and clinical experiences throughout the curriculum.
This position establishes operating procedures and processes including program(s) goals and work plans; develops and administers the program budget; may provide lead work to other professional level advising positions or administrative support staff.
PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES AND RESULTS
Clinical Placement & Partnership Management:
Collaborate with the Dean, Nursing Program Director, and faculty to identify clinical placement needs based on enrollment, course outcomes, faculty assignments, and agency capacity.
Identify, evaluate, and secure appropriate clinical learning settings that support program needs.
Coordinate clinical placement requests and negotiate student placements with healthcare agencies, hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, community agencies, and specialty practice settings.
Coordinate and develop, in accordance with nursing program, ACEN accreditation, and MN Board of Nursing requirements, the master schedule for student clinical placements, preceptor assignments, and clinical/lab/sim schedules for each academic term and summer.
Create and maintain the semester clinical scheduling shell for all nursing courses requiring clinical experiences.
Secure clinical placements, assign students to clinical groups and clinical sites, develop and distribute clinical rosters and agency-specific assignment lists and communicate final placement assignments to faculty and students.
Support student orientation to clinical agencies, laboratory environments, simulation experiences, and compliance requirements.
Establish, develop, and maintain relationships and ongoing communication with healthcare agency representatives regarding clinical sites, program needs, placement requirements, student learning objectives/outcomes, preceptors, and community partners.
Evaluate clinical agencies and preceptor effectiveness and recommend continued utilization of clinical partners based on feedback from faculty, students and agency personnel.
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