Title: LPN to RN Clinical Coordinator Restricted
Agency: Northern VA Community College
Location: Fairfax County - 059
FLSA: Exempt
Hiring Range: Hiring range is $95,000 to $110,000. Starting salary is commensurate within the stated hiring range based on experience, education and other appropriate credentials related to the position.
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
Additional Detail

JOB DESCRIPTION:

General Description:
The Clinical Coordinator collaborates with clinical affiliates, nursing students, nursing faculty, and nursing administration to ensure clinical placements meet expected learning outcomes. This position will primarily be involved with the LPN and LPN to RN programs. The Coordinator ensures that the educational needs of the nursing student population, as well as the requirements of clinical facilities are met and ensures student compliance with health records and clinical requirements.

Duties and Tasks:

• Functions as a clinical liaison between clinical affiliates, nursing faculty, and NOVA Nursing program.
• Collaborates with clinical affiliates and nursing faculty to ensure clinical placements support the achievement of student learning outcomes.
• Performs annual reviews of clinical affiliates as part of contract renewals.
• Maintains student health records and clinical requirements.
• Collaborates with clinical affiliates to schedule faculty and student orientation.
• Strictly adheres to HIPPA and FERPA regulations.
• Collaborates with division leadership and faculty for selection and scheduling of clinical placements.
• Maintains links with clinical preceptors, healthcare institutions, and other agencies involved in the clinical phase of the program.
• Orients adjunct instructors and preceptors to ensure student learning outcomes and expected educational competencies are communicated to instructors and scheduled for students.
• Monitors and evaluates the clinical rotation to ensure instructors and preceptors are fulfilling students learning outcomes.
• Monitors supervised clinical practice experiences and modifies as necessary to ensure expected learning outcomes will be met by each student by program completion.
• Monitors clinical rotations to ensure instructors and preceptors are fulfilling student needs.
• Performs clinical site evaluations as part of contract renewal.
• Updates and/or renews contracts as appropriate.
• Maintains medical program certification and licensure or doctorate licensure as required by accreditation review committees (ARC).
• Evaluates and visits clinical sites and speaks with both students and faculty as well as our partners/hosts to assure a positive working relationship.
• Visits the clinical sites at different times to ensure and document that the site and student group and faculty member are a good, pro-educational environment and fit.
• Orients the adjunct faculty to the course, the facility and the clinical site and complete at least one visit per site/per semester.
• Serves as a resource and support person for adjunct faculty.
• Required to attend division meetings and have open communication regarding the needs of the course and faculty in arranging the optimum site for each course and ensure it is a good fit/match for the faculty as well as student.
• Active member of the health care community and interact to make contacts and clinical relationships and commitments to our program.

**This position is restricted and is funded with non-continuous or non-recurring funding and is subject to continuation based on fiscal year funds and the needs of the College.
Employees must reside in Virginia, Maryland, or the District of Columbia.Minimum Qualifications:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree in Nursing OR a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and a master’s degree in another health-related field (e.g., Health Administration, Health Informatics, Public Health).
• Qualifying degrees must have been awarded by a regionally accredited institution.
• Active, unexpired Commonwealth of Virginia licensure as a registered nurse with no restrictions is required as a condition for hire and for continued employment if hired. If current licensure is with another state or is not active, then you must be able obtain or renew licensure with the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• A minimum of 2 years of full-time clinical nursing experience in a hospital setting. Part-time experience will be converted to its full-time equivalency.
• Up-to-date with all immunizations.
• Current, unexpired certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

• Functions as a clinical liaison between clinical affiliates, nursing faculty, and NOVA Nursing program.
• Collaborates with clinical affiliates and nursing faculty to ensure clinical placements support the achievement of student learning outcomes.
• Performs annual reviews of clinical affiliates as part of contract renewals.
• Maintains student health records and clinical requirements.
• Collaborates with clinical affiliates to schedule faculty and student orientation.
• Strictly adheres to HIPPA and FERPA regulations.
• Collaborates with division leadership and faculty for selection and scheduling of clinical placements.
• Maintains links with clinical preceptors, healthcare institutions, and other agencies involved in the clinical phase of the program.
• Orients adjunct instructors and preceptors to ensure student learning outcomes and expected educational competencies are communicated to instructors and scheduled for students.
• Monitors and evaluates the clinical rotation to ensure instructors and preceptors are fulfilling students learning outcomes.
• Monitors supervised clinical practice experiences and modifies as necessary to ensure expected learning outcomes will be met by each student by program completion.
• Monitors clinical rotations to ensure instructors and preceptors are fulfilling student needs.
• Performs clinical site evaluations as part of contract renewal.
• Updates and/or renews contracts as appropriate.
• Maintains medical program certification and licensure or doctorate licensure as required by accreditation review committees (ARC).
• Evaluates and visits clinical sites and speaks with both students and faculty as well as our partners/hosts to assure a positive working relationship.
• Visits the clinical sites at different times to ensure and document that the site and student group and faculty member are a good, pro-educational environment and fit.
• Orients the adjunct faculty to the course, the facility and the clinical site and complete at least one visit per site/per semester.
• Serves as a resource and support person for adjunct faculty.
• Required to attend division meetings and have open communication regarding the needs of the course and faculty in arranging the optimum site for each course and ensure it is a good fit/match for the faculty as well as student.
• Active member of the health care community and interact to make contacts and clinical relationships and commitments to our program