Graduate Clinical Placement Coordinator Winchester, VA

Shenandoah University’s Department of Nursing is accepting applications for a Graduate Clinical Placement Coordinator. This is a full-time benefited position located on our main campus in Winchester, Virginia.

The Graduate Clinical Placement Coordinator facilitates documentation for courses with a clinical component within the SON and collaborates with the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Graduate Program Directors for students’ optimal learning experiences.

• Ensure that students provide documented evidence of all required immunizations as outlined by the University and School of Nursing, maintain an active and unencumbered registered nurse license, and maintain a current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for healthcare providers, including infants, children, and adults.
• Ensure students complete orientation requirements before clinical start, including site-specific orientations.
• Maintain student compliance documents in accordance with site requirements.
• Facilitate clear, effective communication between the academic institution, affiliated clinical site, and the assigned student.
• Maintain a professional, mature, collegial relationship with all clinical affiliates.
• Continue to develop collaborative relationships with clinical partners to maintain a sufficient number of specialty sites to ensure quality, quantity, and diversity of learning experiences in collaboration with Program Directors to meet student learning outcomes.
  
  Serve as a resource to faculty and students on site requirements.
• Maintain effective and professional lines of communication with the Dean, Associate Dean, faculty, university personnel, and clinical sites.
• Ensure agency contracts are up to date for clinical placement.
• Ensure that all required preceptor documentation—including curriculum vitae, professional certification, and current licensure—is obtained before the student’s clinical placement.
• Solicit requests from graduate students for specific clinical site preferences, being mindful of student residency and student learning outcomes, in collaboration with Program Directors.
• Maintain active involvement in student orientations, open houses, nursing pinning ceremonies, university graduation, and other University/SON events.
• Maintain data and reports necessary for regulation and accreditation in collaboration with the Associate Dean and Program Directors.
• Provide data as needed to the Dean, Associate Dean, and Program Directors.
• Support the School of Nursing through administrative work on committees, maintaining agendas and minutes, managing corresponding Google/Canvas sites, and proctoring student examinations.
• Maintain proficiency with the use of software platforms including but not limited to EXXAT, Canvas, and Google.
• Complete other administrative duties as assigned by the Dean, Associate Dean, and Program Directors.