Our thanks to the organizations that helped develop this platform:
Alliance for Clinical Education (ACE Committee)
Central Colorado Area Health Education Center (AHEC)
Colorado AHEC System
Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence
Colorado Council on Nursing Education
Colorado Organization of Nurse Leaders
Colorado State Board of Nursing
Northern Front Range Consortium
Western Slope Planning Group
Work, Education and Lifelong Learning Simulation (WELLS) Center
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Welcome to the Colorado Clinical Placement Placement Project!
If you are not already a partner, please click on the “Join Us” link to learn about joining.
Current partners can enter the system by clicking on the “Log In” link.
About the Colorado Clinical Placement Technology System
In order to graduate, every student nurse must go outside the classroom for training at clinical agencies in all areas of specialty. Coordinating the multiple clinical rotations for all their students challenges every school of nursing, especially as growing enrollments have strained the capacity of previously existing arrangements between schools and clinical sites.
The result: bottlenecks that make it harder for students to meet clinical requirements in a timely way and contribute to the long waiting lists for entry into nursing programs. By slowing the development of new nurses, these delays contribute to Colorado's ongoing nursing shortage.
Now, the Colorado Nursing Clinical Placement Project can help ease those bottlenecks.
Its core is a searchable, web-based database called StudentMax™ originally designed by the Oregon Center for Nursing. The database has been adapted to meet the needs for Colorado with the focus on placements for pre-licensure nursing students. The system also provides a clearinghouse of additional resources and tools about our partners and all the partnership developed standardized documents/forms.
Benefits
- Schools: Ease in searching for clinical placements; enhanced relationships with existing clinical partners and opportunities to build new relationships; improved communication with clinical sites to ensure placements meet student needs and course objectives.
- Clinical settings: Less hassle and paperwork to coordinate placements; improved communication with schools to enhance preparation of clinical faculty and students.
- Students: Improved access to information about clinical coursework and agency expectations.
- State: Better information about capacity of the nursing education system; improved collaboration between practice and education to enhance the quality of the nursing workforce. The database provides the evidence needed for real-time solution building efforts to improve the pipeline for nursing in Colorado.
Initial Funding: The Colorado Health Foundation funded a two-year pilot project as part of “Partners Investing in Nursing's Future,” a collaborative grant focused on nursing shortage initiatives founded by the Robert Wood Johnson/Northwest Health Foundation. The Central Colorado Area Health Education Center (AHEC) provided the original database licensing fees.
Additional Funding: Ongoing support for this project has been maintained by significant in-kind contribution of time and staff to support the work by all the Clinical and Educational Partners. The Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence, The Timothy and Bernadette Marquez Foundation and Caring for Colorado Foundation are providing bridge funding as the project moves toward fee-based sustainability.
The Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence manages the platform under the direction of the Clinical Placement Implementation Oversight Committee.Questions? Contact Michelle Cheuvront at
(303) 715-0343 or deb@coloradonursingcenter.org .
For more information on StudentMax™ – go to http://www.studentmax.org