OVERVIEW: The Clinical Coordinator manages the clinical education component of the curriculum.

BUSINESS CONTRIBUTION: The Clinical Coordinator position plans, coordinates, facilitates, administers, and monitors, activities on behalf of the academic program and in coordination with academic and clinical faculty. These activities ensure the quality of our students learning experience during clinical education. Clinical Coordinators accomplish this through:

· Assists with the development and assessment of the clinical education component of the curriculum with the Program Director

· Coordination and implementation of the clinical education component of the curriculum including site placements, site visits, and evaluation

· Responsible for facilitating students’ clinical education

· Responsible for ensuring clinical education program compliance

Nursing Clinical Instructor - Adjunct must have a BSN, a Nursing License to practice in North Carolina and 3 years of professional experience.

Essential Functions

Assists in the development and assessment of clinical education component of the curriculum

· Responsible for the administrative, academic, service, and scholarship responsibilities consistent with the mission and philosophy of the academic program

· Develops monitors and refines the clinical education component of the curriculum.

· Facilitates quality learning experiences for students during clinical education.

Coordination and implementation of the clinical education component of the curriculum including site placements, site visits, and evaluation

· Selects clinical learning environments that demonstrate characteristics of an ethical and professional facility that incorporates the programs core values.

· Documents and assesses clinical education sites and clinical educators to determine efficacy.

· Coordinates the ongoing development of the clinical facility database with maintenance of clinical agreements and other appropriate clinical information

· Ensure clinical agreements are current and that students are assigned only to those facilities in which there are properly executed and unexpired contracts.

· Communicates program curriculum, philosophy, objectives, evaluative criteria, policies, procedures, clinical dates, and other pertinent information to affiliating clinical facilities.

· Serves as a liaison between the students and clinical facility.

Responsible for facilitating students’ clinical education

· Communicates and oversees communication with the Center Coordinators of Clinical Education, Clinical Instructors and students to monitor progress and assess students’ performance.

· Provides guidance and support as required to problem solve and discuss students concerns.

· Meets with students prior to clinical affiliations to disseminate information on clinical policies and procedures, clinical site information, clinical education philosophy and objectives.