2010 PLACEMENT CYCLE

August 16, 2010 to August 15, 2011

March 1 - March 15, 2010: Clinical Agencies Update Unit Availability.

March 16 - April 2, 2010: Schools Submit Placement Requests.

April 5 - May 5, 2010: Clinical Agencies will Review 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.