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Mesa State College is excited to be a part of the clinical placement technology project. We are committed as an educational partner because of the importance of piloting this important technology in a rural setting outside of the Metro area. Our process for clinical placement is somewhat different than the Metro ACE group and we've worked hard over the last few years to build collaborative relationships among the nursing programs that use St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction . The clinical placement technology will greatly assist us in continuing this collaboration and making our clinical planning more efficient in maximizing the limited clinical placements in Western Colorado .
Kristy Reuss RN, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Health Sciences Mesa State College
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Background In 2005, the Alliance for Clinical Education identified an alarming level of unmet clinical placement needs in metropolitan Denver . Simultaneously, the Colorado State Board of Nursing noted the same concern statewide, and called for a statewide database to track clinical placement supply and demand. ACE convened a task force of stakeholders from throughout Colorado to define needs and review technologies in use elsewhere. That group selected a platform in use in Oregon , which has now been customized for Colorado 's purposes. The Central Colorado Area Health Education Center (AHEC) provided funds to license the platform for one year. Operational funding for the two-year pilot is provided by The Colorado Health Foundation as part of "Partners Investing in Nursing's Future," a collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson/Northwest Health Foundation. Structure The Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence manages the Clinical Placement Technology System and Matching Inventory under the direction of the Clinical Placement Implementation Oversight Committee. The Colorado Health Foundation funds the system pilot through a "Partners Investing in Nursing's Future" grant, a collaborative initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Northwest Health Foundation. The Colorado Area Health Education Center System underwrites database licensing fees. Implementation Oversight Committee Members (Jan. 2007) Deb Center , RN, MSN , CNS Carol Alexander, RN, MS Jana Berryman, ND, CNS, RN Sue Carparelli Karren Kowalski, PhD, RN, FAAN Vatsala Kapur Pathy Gayle Preheim, EdD, RN, CNAA , BC Kris Wenzel, RN, MBA
For more information, contact Deb Center , RN, MSN , CNS - Project Director, at
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