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The Los Angeles NRC is a collaborative effort between the Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) and the California Institute for Nursing & Health Care (CINHC)
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Quick Links
Enter the Los Angeles Nursing Resource Center Web Site at www.LosAngelesNRC.org or click on the quick link below
You are welcome to also visit the NRC Home Page to view other regions
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Implementation of the CCPS in LA County has been funded in part by a grant (#06-0117-04) from the Chancellor's Office, California Community Colleges for $95,000 with matching resources from CINHC and College of the Canyons. The grant will pay the first year of FCCC annual licensing fees for all RN schools in LA County
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Contact Information
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General Information Carolyn Orlowski LANRC Project Coordinator, CINHC carolyn@cinhc.org 310-714-9242
Community Outreach Pat Chambers Regional Coordinator Southern California, CINHC pat@cinhc.org 714-274-3986
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Register Now for a CCPS Class to participate in the Fall/Winter 2008 student placement cycle!
These February classes are still available:
Dates for Schools:
February 5
West Coast University
February 22
Huntington Hospital
Dates for Hospitals:
February 4
West Coast University
February 6
West Coast University
February 20
Huntington Hospital
Feb 21
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Help us get the word out! Use the link at the bottom of this page to forward this newsletter to your professional school/hospital contacts. | | |
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The Los Angeles Nursing Resource Center (LANRC)
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We are working together within the Los Angeles Nursing community to partner in implementing strategies which support and advance nursing education.
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| The Nursing Resource Center (NRC) provides a centralized, customer-focused suite of internet-based education services for schools of nursing and clinical agencies. The goal of the NRC is to help expand capacity for nurse education through the use of the Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS) to manage clinical placements and the Centralized Faculty Resource Center (CFRC) to identify qualified nursing faculty.
This issue of ReSource will focus on CCPS to provide information to schools and clinical facilities currently learning the system in one of our classes and for those facilities considering participation.
Please visit the December 2007 issue of ReSource if you missed the article on the NRC Journey to LA.
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| The Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS) |

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What is CCPS? The CCPS is a fully automated internet-based clinical placement planning tool that optimizes nursing student clinical placements by allowing schools to quickly match their needs with placement opportunities. The system allows clinical agencies to review and respond to requests in a standard format and to manage a single schedule while increasing student capacity. The system is hosted and maintained at the Foundation for California Community Colleges and supported by an online user manual, training videos, and other resources under HELP www.ccps.foundationccc.org
System Benefits
There are several advantages to using the CCPS as a regional tool in LA County for RN nursing student clinical placements.
Benefits to the Nursing Education Community:
- Supports increased capacity for nurse education through shared partnerships and relationships
- Optimizes nursing student clinical placements by allowing schools to quickly match their needs with placement opportunities online and real time
- Supports clinical agency review and response to requests in a single schedule standard format
- Provides a regional database to review historical placements and identify available clinical capacity to target and support growth
- Utilizes local region-defined decisions related to planning cycles and operating principles
- reports features include several standard reports that can be easily printed or exported
- Coordinates placement cycle requests based on a regional calendar to focus planning for schools and placement decisions by hospitals
- Recognizes the importance of accepting historical placements as a first priority
- Provides automatic email notifications to schools and clinical agencies of placement requests and placement decisions
- Prepares reports including: unit availability, schedules, student cohort schedules, school proposal lists, and confirmed placements organized in a calendar format by unit and shift
Benefits Unique to Schools:
- Optimizes nursing student clinical placements by allowing schools to quickly view and match their needs with available placement options
- Provides information on clinical facilities utilizing the system, their scope of services, key contacts, units, days of the week, and shift options available
- Supports the need to expand student capacity by providing information on un-used clinical schedules to assist future planning decisions
- Utilizes decisions make by school coordinators to submit placement proposals
- Saves time for school coordinators in searching for availability, proposing clinical rotations, and confirming accurate schedules
Benefits Unique to Clinical Facilities:
- Optimizes review of school placement requests in a standard format for ease of review, including identification of overlapping requests
- Provides information on schools utilizing the system, their nursing programs, and key contacts
- Acknowledges capacity constraints defined by each clinical facility while supporting the need to expand student capacity by providing information on facilities with un-used clinical availability to leverage and distribute regional expansion
- Utilizes clinical agency coordinator decisions to define availability and to accept or decline clinical placements using easy to view tools to support and simplify coordination
- Saves time for clinical facility coordinators in reviewing and responding to school requests, and in finalizing and communicating accurate schedules
Placement Cycles
The process for student placements includes three basic steps and is coordinated across participating schools and hospitals through a regional calendar for LA County. Placement cycle dates and guidelines for implementation were approved by the LANRC Advisory Board at the December 2007 meeting. Placement cycles will be reviewed and schedules may be modified in the future based on user feedback to best meet evolving community needs.
Fall/Winter Placement Schedule
February 25 - March 7
Hospitals review, confirm and extend availability from August 2008 through August 2009. This provides schools with additional visibility beyond the 6 months being scheduled for potential future placements. We understand some hospitals will need to modify future availability if census and building plans change. These changes can be done as needed throughout the year.
March 10 - March 28
Schools make requests for all courses that start September 2008 through the end of the Fall or Winter terms. (6 month placements)
March 31 - April 11
Hospitals review proposed requests and make placement decisions. Hospitals are encouraged to accept long-standing/historic placements and to decline proposals they know they cannot accommodate as quickly as possible as a courtesy to schools.
Please visit www.LosAngelesNRC.org and click on the main page CCPS link for further information important to hospitals and schools. The LANRC and CCPS sites do not require a password to access general information.
Watch and listen to a CCPS demonstration from the CCPS homepage toolbar under the HELP menu!
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| CCPS: Training - Classes Are In Session Now through February 22 |
Registration:
Need more information? Please contact us with questions or to schedule an information session with your team.
Ready to Schedule? Contact Carolyn to register now for a CCPS Training date. Please provide: your name, facility, E Mail, phone number, and desired class date. Once registration is confirmed, we will send further information to assist you to plan for the session.
Carolyn Orlowski, RN, MSN
LANRC Project Coordinator
Target Audience: Individuals from LA County RN schools and their Clinical Service/Hospital partners who coordinate & schedule student placements for their facilities.
Training Plan: 1 day class 10 AM to 3 PM small groups 15-20 participants computer lab setting-hands on workshop actual school or service data entry
Fees*: No charge for training
*Annual licensing/user fees apply. First year FCCC licensing fees for all RN schools in LA County are paid as part of the grant from the Chancellor's Office, California Community Colleges (#06-0117-04) with project costs supported with matching funds from CINHC and College of the Canyons. Participating hospitals will be invoiced $975 following March implementation. | |
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