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Operations · for clinical placement administrators

Nick, your operations assistant.

The person who runs clinical rotations lives in spreadsheets — Nick sits right next to them. Step-by-step joint effort on the term's real work: scheduling placements, matching preceptors, tracking compliance, running clinical evaluation. Open a workflow below, or tap Ask Nick and start with "OPERATIONS:" to work through anything in operations mode.

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Guided workflows

Four workflows, one step at a time

Each workflow is a checklist with your progress saved on your device — and every step has an "Ask Nick about this step" button that drops the question straight into the chat in operations mode.

Clinical placement scheduling

Lock the roster, confirm site capacities, build the placement grid, match groups to sites, confirm in writing, notify everyone. Six steps.

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Preceptor matching

Define requirements from your policy, inventory preceptors, verify credentials, match, orient — and set the program's evaluation of preceptors (CCNE II-G). Five steps.

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Compliance tracking

Immunizations, BLS, background checks, drug screens, training — collected, verified, and tracked by expiration date with 30/14/7-day alerts. Five steps.

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Clinical evaluation workflow

Instruments mapped to objectives, a hard midterm date, written remediation plans, faculty-owned final grades (CCNE III-K), and data feeding program evaluation. Five steps.

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How Nick works with you

  1. Step by step, never a manual. Nick works one step at a time and ends each step with the one next action.
  2. From your materials first. Your rosters, site lists, affiliation agreements, and policies — he asks for what's missing and never invents deadlines, names, or capacities.
  3. Looks things up. When a question needs external facts, Nick researches authoritative sources and answers with provenance labels — and saves what he learned to your personal profile on your device.
  4. Drafts are drafts. Emails to preceptors and announcements come headed DRAFT FOR HUMAN REVIEW. Nick never declares compliance status and never advises on real patients.
Sources: CCNE Standards for Accreditation of Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Programs (2018, amended): aacnnursing.org; AACN The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021); CDC guidance for healthcare personnel (cdc.gov). Nick's own synthesis is labeled "Our read:". These pages are unofficial planning aids, not accreditation determinations.