Clinical Coordinator, MnSCU Academic Professional 3

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Working Title:

Clinical Coordinator, MnSCU Academic Professional 3

Institution:

Minnesota State College Southeast

Classification Title:

MnSCU Academic Professional 3

Bargaining Unit / Union:

214: Minnesota Association of Professional Employees

City:

MSSE - Winona CampusRed Wing

FLSA:

Job Exempt

Full Time / Part Time:

Full time

Employment Condition:

Unclassified - Unlimited Academic

Salary Range:

• $28.75 - $42.16
• Job Description

The position is best constructed as a full-time 12-month staff role where the nurse educator performs both instructional and non-instructional activities to support the nursing program(s) at Winona and Red Wing Campuses.

Responsible for the overall success of clinical placement through high-level planning, communication of clinical placements, skills and simulation lab operation for the nursing programs and instruction and instructional support to faculty and students.

Clinical, 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, i