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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
Please visit us at the Los Angeles Nursing Resource Center website!
Click on the main page Newsletters Tab to read more about our first year
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Who utilizes CCPS?
Any nursing school or clinical facility located in LA County or affiliated with a nursing school or clinical facility in LA County who utilizes CCPS may participate. A clinical affiliation agreement (contract) is required between schools and clinical facilities prior to clinical placement scheduling in CCPS.
CCPS Clinical Facilities (Hospitals)
(as of October 2008)
California Hospital Medical Center
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Downey Regional Medical Center
Glendale Adventist Medical Center
Glendale Memorial Hospital
Good Samaritan Hospital
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Kaiser Permanente Bellflower
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles
Kaiser Permanente Panorama City
Kaiser Permanente West LA
Little Company of Mary (Torrance)
Little Company of Mary (San Pedro)
Methodist Hospital
Mission Community Hospital
Northridge Hospital Medical Center
Pacific Hospital of Long Beach
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
Providence Tarzana Medical Center
Resnick Neuropsych Hospital at UCLA
Saint John's Health Center
Santa Monica UCLA
Sherman Oaks Hospital
UCLA Medical Center
USC Norris/USC University Hospital
Valley Presbyterian Hospital
VA Greater Los Angeles Medical Center
West Hills Hospital and Medical Center
White Memorial Hospital
Please visit our web site for a complete list of all participating schools and hospitals as new sites are added over time
(click on CCPS link) | |
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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
Southern California Regional Coordinator, CINHC
pat@cinhc.org
714-274-3986
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CCPS TRAINING
Classes for School Coordinators:
Feb 2 9 - 12
Feb 4 1 - 4
Feb 18 9 - 12
Feb 20 1 - 4
Class location:
Huntington Hospital in Pasadena |
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(Pre-registration is required) Reserve early to get your choice of dates!
(classes will not be offered again until August 2009) |
Help us get the word out!
Use the link below to forward this newsletter to your professional school/hospital contacts. | |
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Introducing - The Los Angeles Nursing Resource Center (LANRC)
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Working together within the Los Angeles nursing community to partner in implementing strategies which support and advance nursing education.
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BACKGROUND
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.
These services were initially developed through the collaborative efforts of the Foundation for California Community Colleges and the California Institute for Nursing & Health Care, and implemented in Northern California supported by grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The system is now available for use in other markets and has also been implemented in seven regions across the country.
The LA Journey
Initiatives to address the nursing shortage are a shared priority for improvement in California. SB 1309 directed the Chancellor's Office to fund the development of online nursing resource systems targeted at improving the nursing shortage and resulted in funding being awarded to launch this regional project in LA County this past year.
Grant requirements:
- securing participation of nursing programs in LA County
- collaboration with CCC, UC, CSU and healthcare partners to plan, develop, and implement a regional nursing resource center
- hiring experienced technical and web design personnel
- providing education and support to use the system
College of the Canyons and the California Institute for Nursing and Healthcare (CINHC) worked together to secure a regional system for LA County and provided matching resources to support implementation.
In May 2007, the Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS) was selected as the tool for implementation in Los Angeles. Purchased from the Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) for the LA region, annual licensing fees are paid by individual schools and hospitals using the system. Grant funding from the Chancellors Office was available to support the initial implementation of CCPS, however the project must be self-sustaining going forward through collection of annual user licensing fees from participating schools and clinical facilities.
Project Leadership
The LANRC Project Team:
- Sue Albert, RN, MN, MHA, Dean of Allied Health, College of the Canyons
- Pat Chambers, RN, BSN, MBA, Southern California Regional Coordinator, CINHC
- Kathy DeGuerre, Technical Manager, Foundation for California Community Colleges
- Carolyn Orlowski, RN, MSN, LANRC Project Coordinator, CINHC
- Kristine Yahn, MBA, RN, Director of Health Care Programs, Foundation for California Community Colleges
The LANRC Advisory Board includes over 25 interested nursing leaders from both academia and service to represent the region and make decisions needed to customize the CCPS in Los Angeles County. The LANRC Advisory Board is co-chaired by:
- Jamie Eisenberg, RN, MSN, Director of Education, Methodist Hospital, Arcadia
- Wendy Taylor, DNSc, CNS, RN, Nursing Program Director, California State University, Northridge
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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 at their affiliated clinical facilities. A pre-existing clinical affiliation agreement must be in place between schools requesting placement schedules and their clinical facilities. 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 Foundation for California Community Colleges and supported by an online user manual, training videos, and other resources under the HELP tab: www.ccps.foundationccc.org
System Benefits:
- Online and real-time
- Visibility of clinical availability
- Ability to expand capacity
- Easy to manage placement requests
- Automatic email notifications
- Data and decisions controlled by school/service coordinators
- No software to install
Expanding to LVN Schools in 2009
CCPS is expanding to LVN schools who reside in or contract with clinical facilities within LA County. LVN Schools are invited to begin using the CCPS starting in February 2009 to process clinical placements for the Fall/Winter 2009 terms (September to December courses). CCPS is coordinated based on a regional planning calendar, with clinical placements processed twice a year. An annual licensing fee of $975 is charged to each school or clinical facility using the CCPS tool to schedule clinical placements.
Training programs for new Clinical Placement Coordinators and schools are scheduled in February just prior to the next regional clinical placement cycle in March when placement requests will be proposed on the web based system by school coordinators to their affiliated clinical facilities, and reviewed, confirmed or declined electronically by hospital coordinators. Reporting features are available to help manage the process.
Please visit www.LosAngelesNRC.org for further information on CCPS, CFRC, and other nursing resources and links important to hospitals and schools. The LANRC site does not require a password to access general information. Participants who have registered to use the CCPS system for student placements are provided site specific passwords for secure access to scheduling. |
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Registration:
Do you affiliate with one or more of the Clinical facilities who utilize CCPS to process clinical placements? If so, CCPS will help you to streamline and coordinate your placement requests. Please contact us with questions or for further information about the benefits of using CCPS.
Ready to get Started? Contact Carolyn to register your school to use CCPS and schedule a Training date. Please provide: your name, facility, E Mail, phone number, and desired class date. Once registration is confirmed, further information will be provided to assist you to plan for the session.
Carolyn Orlowski, RN, MSN
LANRC Project Coordinator
Target Audience: Individuals who coordinate and schedule student placements for LVN schools either located in LA county or who have clinical affiliation agreements with Clinical Agencies in LA County who utilize CCPS.
Class Dates: (computer classroom training is needed prior to using the CCPS tool)
Monday February 2nd 9 AM to 12 Noon
Wednesday February 4th 1 PM to 4 PM
Wednesday February 18th 9 AM to 12 Noon
Friday February 20th 1 PM to 4 PM
Training Plan:
half day class (3 hours)
small groups with 10-12 participants
computer lab setting-hands on workshop
actual school courses and schedules data entry
(for Sept to Dec 2009 clinical placements)
Training Fees: No charge for class training
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