Registered Nurse (RN) - Clinical Nurse Coordinator
State of Virginia
Fairfax County, VA

Nursing Clinical Coordinator

Title: Nursing Clinical Coordinator Agency: Northern VA Community College Location: Fairfax County - 059 FLSA: Exempt Hiring Range: Hiring range is $95,000 to $115,000. 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. 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. Employees must reside in Virginia, Maryland, or the District of Columbia. Minimum Qualifications: Required KSAs: * Strong clinical nursing skills and clinical nursing knowledge. * Excellent verbal and written communication skills. * Proficiency in computer usage and Microsoft Office suite. * Ability to communicate complicated information to varied audiences. * Must conduct interactions in a professional and courteous manner with excellent customer service skills. * Ability to maintain confidential information on the program and student records. * Self-directed and ability to prioritize work. * Must be able to meet deadlines in a timely manner. 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. * Unencumbered Virginia RN Nursing Licensure. * 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). Preferred Qualifications: * Post master's degree credits in Nursing or doctoral degree in Nursing or related field of teaching. * Experience in teaching Nursing and/or related knowledge and skillsets in a postsecondary setting.