SPRING & SUMMER 2009 PLACEMENT CYCLE

May 15, 2009 to August 15, 2009

February 1 to February 28, 2009: Clinical Agencies update unit availability and also enter Preceptor availability.

March 1 to March 30, 2009: Schools request cohort placements and preceptor placements for Spring & Summer 2009.

April 1 to April 15, 2009: Agencies will review cohort placement/preceptor placement requests and make placement decisions.

The Centralized Clinical Placement System is an internet-based tool designed to help address and improve the growing nursing shortage problem. Underutilization of existing clinical placement sites for nursing students and an inefficient clinical placement system combine to form one of the barriers to increasing the number of qualified nurses.

This system brings together school and clinical agency information in a centralized, online format. This enables schools and clinical agencies to achieve a higher level of operating performance: (i) schools can rapidly match clinical placement opportunities for student cohorts (group of 8-10 students) and (ii) clinical agencies can effectively manage a single schedule (for all participating schools) while increasing the number of students within their agency, which provides direct observation and potential identification of future employees.

Thank you to the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative for their financial support for this project.