Managing the shared work of nurse education and nursing
services
The Nursing Resource
Center was designed for
nurses by nurses, to increase
The
Nursing
Resource
nursing
education
capacity.
Center
was designed for nurses by nurses,
to increase nursing education capacity.
The Nursing
Resource
The Nursing
Resource Center is
is a suite of Interneta suite ofCenter
Internet-based
services
based services accessible
accessible
a custom
throughthrough
a custom regional
website.
regional
website.
The Nursing
Resource Center
The
Nursing Resource Center
Includes:
includes:
• Centralized Clinical
Placement System (CCPS)
• Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS)
• Centralized Faculty
• Centralized Faculty Resource Center (CFRC)
Resource Center (CFRC)
Centralized Clinical
Centralized
Clinical
Placement
Placement System
CCPS streamlines the
System
(CCPS)
(CCPS)
clinical placement process
and improves
CCPS streamlines the clinical
placementand
communication
process and improves communication
collaboration and
between
collaboration between schools
and
clinical
schools
and
clinical
agencies.agencies.
CCPS Benefits
CCPS Benefits
• Reduces time to process
placement requests
• Manage data and placement matching
• Easily identifies untapped clinical
• Identify untapped
clinicaland
capacity
capacity
patternsand
patterns
• Manages placement data and
placement
matching
process
• Reduce time to the
process
placement
requests
• Improves
information sharing
• Improve information
sharing
• Access
real-time
clinical
• Access real-time
clinical
placement
and
placement and scheduling
scheduling information
24/7
information 24/7
•
CCPS Features
CCPS Features
• On line and real time
• Easy to manage placement
• Automatic email notifications
requests
•
•
•
•
Clinical availability view • All data controlled by
coordinators
Printable placement calendar
• Automatic email notifications
Clinical placement reports
• Printable placement calendar
No software to install
• Clinical placement reports
• No software to install
Centralized Faculty
Centralized
Faculty
Resource
Resource Center
CFRC(CFRC)
helps nursing schools
Center
(CFRC)
address faculty shortage
issues by providing
CFRC helps
schoolsschools address faculty
CFRCnursing
helps nursing
resources for current and
address faculty
shortage
shortage
issuespotential
by providing
resources
nursing
faculty. for
issues by providing
current and potential nursing faculty.
resources for current and
potential nursing faculty.
CFRC Benefits
CFRC Benefits
• Browse profiles of qualified
• Browse profiles of
and
interested
faculty
• Browse
profiles
of
qualified
and
interested
qualified and interested
faculty
faculty • Post or view faculty
opportunities
• Access
professional
development resources
• Access professional
to maximize
the
efficacy
of existing
staff
• Access
professional
development
resources
to
development
maximize the
efficacy of resources to
maximize the efficacy of
existing staff
existing staff
CFRC Features
• Job board
• User-created profiles
• Easy email system to
connect candidates and
employers
• Best practices, faculty
development resources,
and conference information
Other NRC Services
• Local training sessions for
new markets
• Centralized help desk support
• National user group meetings
• Monthly Web-Ex training
sessions
Ongoing Enhancements
•
•
•
•
Reporting features
Value-added services
Capacity management
CFRC usability
Since 2003, the
Nursing Resource
Sincehas2003,
the Nursing Resource Center
Center
continually
enhanced
its offerings enhanced its offerings to
has continually
to best serve the
best community
serve theinnursing community in the
nursing
the United States. United States.
NRC Milestones
The Moore Foundation
launches the Betty
Irene Moore Nursing
Initiative (BIMNI)
The Moore Foundation
approves funds for CINHC
and the Foundation for
California Colleges to
develop CCPS
NRC Milestones
CCPS begins
production in the San
Francisco Bay Area
CFRC begins
production
NRC Milestones
Six new markets
adopt the NRC
NRC reaches selfsustainability
The Nursing Resource Center
is making a difference in the
San Francisco Bay Area
Resource Center is and beyond.
The Nursing
making a difference in the San
Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
16–21% estimated to have been positively influenced by CCPS
Source: Waneka, Spetz & Kaiser, Evaluation of the Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS) and the Centralized Faculty Resource Center (CFRC), 2009
Nationwide Impact
TriState NRC (Ohio)
• Increased year-over-year efficiency for the clinical placement process
• NRC website is used as a general nursing resource and regional bulletin board
Florida NRC
• Increased number of accepted cohorts within region
• A regional view of student clinical placement patterns by day of week, shift and
specialty areas are easily identified.
• Schools of nursing are more flexible and are selecting times, days and units
that were previously underutilized.
Learn More
Please visit
www.NursingResourceCenter.org
Schedule a Demo
Kathy DeGuerre
Health Care Program Manager
916.325.1853
kdeguerre@foundationccc.org