Clinical Coordinator, MnSCU Academic Professional 3

Skills Laboratory and Simulation Coordinator is responsible for coordinating, implementing, and evaluating clinical placement & scheduling, skills laboratory activities, and simulation-based learning experiences that support student achievement of program outcomes and regulatory requirements. This role serves as a liaison among students, faculty, healthcare agencies, preceptors, simulation staff, and community partners to ensure high-quality clinical education and experiential learning opportunities. The coordinator provides leadership for clinical placement processes, skills laboratory operations, simulation activities, student compliance tracking, and faculty support while promoting excellence in teaching, learning, safety, accreditation compliance, and community partnerships. The position combines instructional and operational responsibilities to ensure effective integration of classroom, laboratory, simulation and clinical experiences throughout the curriculum. This position establishes operating procedures and processes including program(s) goals and work plans; develops and administers the program budget; may provide lead work to other professional level advising positions or administrative support staff. PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES AND RESULTS Clinical Placement & Partnership Management: Collaborate with the Dean, Nursing Program Director, and faculty to identify clinical placement needs based on enrollment, course outcomes, faculty assignments, and agency capacity. Identify, evaluate, and secure appropriate clinical learning settings that support program needs. Coordinate clinical placement requests and negotiate student placements with healthcare agencies, hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, community agencies, and specialty practice settings. Coordinate and develop, in accordance with nursing program, ACEN accreditation, and MN Board of Nursing requirements, the master schedule for student clinical placements, preceptor assignments, and clinical/lab/sim schedules for each academic term and summer. Create and maintain the semester clinical scheduling shell for all nursing courses requiring clinical experiences. Secure clinical placements, assign students to clinical groups and clinical sites, develop and distribute clinical rosters and agency-specific assignment lists and communicate final placement assignments to faculty and students. Support student orientation to clinical agencies, laboratory environments, simulation experiences, and compliance requirements. Establish, develop, and maintain relationships and ongoing communication with healthcare agency representatives regarding clinical sites, program needs, placement requirements, student learning objectives/outcomes, preceptors, and community partners. Evaluate clinical agencies and preceptor effectiveness and recommend continued utilization of clinical partners based on feedback from faculty, students and agency personnel. Represent the nursing program at community, healthcare, and professional meetings, conferences, and partnership events as assigned. Writes instructions, standard operating procedures and processes for clinical, lab and sims for faculty and students to follow. Prepares instructions, standard operating procedures for lab equipment, supplies, high fidelity mannequins and coordinates maintenance, recalls, and vendor communications. Creates alignment of clinical, lab and sim experiences with nursing program curriculum and outcomes for each semester and courses. Manages clinical placement compliance with operating procedures established by clinical partners. Clinical Compliance and Regulatory Oversight: Assist with initiation, renewal, and maintenance of affiliation agreements and clinical contracts including maintenance of contract expiration dates and agency requirements. Coordinate Compliance activities with the Nursing and Allied Health (NAH) Administrative Assistant and Program Director to ensure adherence to accreditation standards, state board regulations, institutional policies, and clinical agency requirements. Coordinate with NAH Administrative Assistant student, faculty and preceptor clinical document compliance including health records, licensure, certifications, background checks, and site-specific onboarding requirements, and communicate compliance deficiencies and required deadlines to students and faculty. Manage and maintain clinical tracking systems and databases used for placement, onboarding, compliance, documentation, and reporting. Maintain accurate records related to clinical placements, site utilization, student compliance, and program outcomes. Generate reports and analyze data to support program evaluation, accreditation activities, and strategic planning. Skills Laboratory Coordination: Schedule and support laboratory utilization for courses, faculty, student remediation, open lab hours, independent student practice and special events. Ensure laboratory readiness by maintaining supplies, confirming compliance with safety protocols, infection prevention standards, laboratory procedures, equipment operation and providing instructional materials, and learning resources. Monitor supply inventory levels and coordinate purchasing, repair, replacement, and maintenance of laboratory equipment. Assist the Dean of NAH with laboratory budgeting and resource planning. Simulation Coordination: Schedule and support simulation utilization for courses, faculty, student remediation, and special events. Ensure simulation readiness by maintaining equipment, operating manikins, simulators, audiovisual systems, software platforms, simulation scenarios and technologies. Provide training and technical support to faculty, staff, and students regarding simulation equipment and educational technologies. Maintain simulation resources and records, including participation, competency validation, and evaluation data and assist with development of simulation policies and procedures. Evaluate simulation effectiveness and recommend improvements to support accreditation standards related to simulation-based education. Maintain compliance with best practices and standards established by the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL). Program and Faculty Support: Support the planning, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of clinical, laboratory, and simulation-based learning experiences across nursing programs, ensuring alignment with curriculum objectives, course outcomes, and program standards. Assist faculty with student learning, instruction, and assessment by supporting skills checkoffs, competency validation, clinical and simulation performance evaluation, guided practice, coaching, and remediation. Maintain operational readiness of nursing skills laboratories and simulation environments through preparation of learning activities, instructional resources, scheduling, logistics coordination, and implementation of new skills and educational initiatives. Collaborate with faculty to integrate classroom, clinical, laboratory, and simulation experiences and assist with the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of instructional activities and student learning experiences. Provide faculty support, onboarding, orientation, training, and consultation related to clinical, laboratory, and simulation processes, educational technologies, and instructional best practices. Coordinate clinical education resources and faculty assignments by assisting with clinical placement activities, faculty teaching assignments, workload planning, qualification matching, scheduling, and communication of assignment changes. Participate in program governance, accreditation, assessment, and quality improvement activities through involvement in committees, advisory boards, strategic planning initiatives, curriculum review, and continuous quality improvement efforts. Maintain professional expertise and contribute to the advancement of nursing education through professional memberships, continuing education, professional development, and engagement in institutional initiatives. Contributes to the Nursing and Allied Health budget development process by providing equipment and supply inventory data including costs & pricing; vendor communication, supply use analysis, equipment use analysis, maintenance/repair expense and prepare financial need requests annually. Track and manage costs associated with clinical requirements for students and faculty with third-party vendor Castle Branch and any costs associated with clinical partner placement software usage. This individual will work closely with clinical, skills, and sim lab faculty to ensure experiences in these settings are aligned with course curriculum. This individual will work closely with the Program Director and Dean in developing the course schedule which is built from the clinical coordination and placement outcomes. Salary Range: $60,030-$88,030 Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Nursing Two years of clinical nursing practice experience. Current, unencumbered Registered Nurse license in the state of employment or eligibility for licensure. Knowledge of nursing education principles, curriculum design, and competency-based learning. Knowledge of accreditation standards, state board of nursing regulations and state safety regulations for laboratory operations. Knowledge of clinical placement processes, affiliation agreements, and healthcare agency partnerships. Knowledge of simulation pedagogy, debriefing techniques, and simulation technologies. Strong organizational, project management, and problem-solving skills. Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Proficiency with learning management systems, clinical tracking software, simulation technologies, and Microsoft Office applications. Ability to work collaboratively with students, faculty, healthcare partners, and community stakeholders. Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic academic environment. Preferred Qualification Education Master's degree in Nursing Experience Minimum of two years of nursing education experience in academic, clinical, laboratory, simulation, or staff development settings. Experience coordinating clinical placements, skills laboratories, simulation activities, or academic nursing programs preferred. Work Shift Monday-Friday About Minnesota State College Southeast is an open-access, public, not-for-profit comprehensive technical and community college. Our campuses are located in the historic river towns of Red Wing and Winona, set sixty miles apart along the Mississippi. The two campuses have distinctive characteristics but are one college in structure, policies, procedures, and mission. Both campuses offer small class sizes, state-of-the-art facilities, and an environment that is friendly and supportive.