| Inaugural Issue: December 2007 |
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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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The Los Angeles Nursing Resource
Center web site is under development - please visit us in January 2008! to also visit the NRC Home Page to learn more about NRC while the Los Angeles site is being developed |
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| General Information Carolyn Orlowski LANRC Project Coordinator, CINHC carolyn@cinhc.org 310-714-9242 Pat Chambers Southern California Regional Coordinator, CINHC pat@cinhc.org 714-274-3986 |
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TRAINING Classes for School Coordinators: Jan 24 Rio Hondo Feb 5 West Coast
University Feb 22 Huntington
Hospital Classes for Jan 22 Rio Hondo
College Jan 23 Rio Hondo Feb 4 West Coast Feb 6 West Coast
University Feb 20 Huntington
Hospital Feb 21 Huntington Hospital |
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get your choice of dates! |
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Help us get the word out! Use the link below to forward this newsletter to your professional school/hospital contacts. |
| Introducing - The Los Angeles Nursing Resource Center (LANRC) |
We look forward to working together within the Los Angeles Nursing community as we partner to implement strategies which support and advance nursing education. |
| 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 South Florida and Gulf Coast Texas regions. 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 LA County. Grant requirements:
In May, a focused group of nursing leaders from LA County schools and hospitals viewed available systems and selected the Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS) for implementation. Purchased from the Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC), annual licensing fees will be paid by individual schools and hospitals using the system. Grant funding from the Chancellors Office for the development of CCPS will support the first year of licensing fees for public nursing schools. At the end of the grant period, the project must be self-sustaining through annual user licensing fees. From Vision To Reality LANRC information sessions were held for the Nursing Leadership community in the fall by the Project Team:
An Advisory Board was formed with interested nursing leaders from academia and service to represent the larger group and make decisions needed to customize the CCPS in Los Angeles County. The first LANRC Advisory Board meeting was conducted in November and co-chaired by: Jamie Eisenberg, RN, MSN, Director of Education, Methodist Hospital, Arcadia, and Wendy Taylor, DNSc, CNS, RN, Nursing Program Director, California State University, Northridge. |
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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 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:
Planning is underway for LA County RN schools and their clinical service partners/hospitals to begin using the CCPS in early spring 2008 for student placements starting with the Fall/Winter 2008 terms. The Los Angeles internet portal to access CCPS will be available in January. Please visit www.LosAngelesNRC.org after the first of the year for information on CCPS, CFRC, and other resources and links important to hospitals and schools. The LANRC site does not require a password to access general information. Participants using the CCPS system for student placements will be provided site specific passwords during the training sessions for secure access to scheduling. |
| LA CCPS: Training
January 22 to February 22, 2008 |
| 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
carolyn@cinhc.org
310-714-9242 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 Training Fees: No charge for training |