Highlights of these changes are:

The Clinical Placement navigational menu has been broken down into 3 Easy Steps:

For Schools: · Step 1 - Work with Courses and Cohorts · Step 2 - Work with Cohort Schedules · Step 3 - Work with Request Placements Download Easy Steps for Schools

For Clinical Agencies: · Step 1 - Work with Unit Locations · Step 2 - Work with Unit Schedules · Step 3 - Work with Placement Requests Download Easy Steps for Hospitals

Once a user clicks on the Step she would like to work with, CCPS will navigate them to a page that will offer all the options they have for working that step. The options are presented in the logical order of the process.

This same page will offer users access to valuable reports to assist them in tracking their work.

Other CCPS Enhancements include:

· Reduced number of links off the main menu · A Coordinator Admin Menu to group and manage all coordinator administrative tasks · An improved calendar feature for schools to use when they "View Unit Availability" - they can move forward by month as opposed to week-by week · The Reports page has been reorganized and reports are sorted by Agency Reports and School Reports (Note: The Agency Acceptance Report has been renamed to Placement Request Status Report)

We hope that these enhancements assist you in working with CCPS!!

Now that these "quick hit" enhancements are implemented, our development team is moving on to a more comprehensive re-architecture of CCPS which will provide long term solutions to make CCPS increasingly easier to use.

Please don't hesitate to contact the CCPS Help Desk
(866) 325-3222 ext. 123 if you need any assistance in working with CCPS.

Kathy DeGuerre
Technical Manager - Health Care Programs
Foundation for California Community Colleges

BASC News: The 1st Annual Clinical Simulation Conference was held November 2nd 2007 at the Hilton Newark/Fremont Hotel in Newark, CA.  The conference followed the successful "Magic in Teaching 2" conference held the day before.  Over 350 nurse leaders attended this first annual conference which disseminated important information about the status of the work of the Bay Area Simulation Collaborative (BASC) and its members.  The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation provided generous support for the conference.   The California Institute for Nursing & Healthcare (CINHC) and the BASC developed a well thought out program that provided new ideas and strategies to integrate the use of clinical simulation into nursing program curriculum. Redesigning nursing education in the state of California for registered nurses is an important public policy issue.  The conference helped disseminate information about this new teaching methodology and provided expert information for the participants to take away.     Through this conference, educators from both schools and hospitals were able to network and speak directly with resource individuals to help them get started on implementing clinical simulation into their programs.  The conference also gave programs a chance to confirm if what steps they have already taken in implementing is headed in the right direction. The conference planning committee is to be commended for planning a thoughtful flow of information that can be used immediately upon returning to sites throughout California. The program objectives included: · understanding how to utilize simulation as a teaching modality · examine best practice for simulation education from expert simulation and academic faculty · identify steps in the scenario development and validation process · network and share ideas with other simulation educators from academia and service · understand the issues and concepts to integrate simulation into the nursing curriculum.   Pam Jefferies, DNS, RN, FAAN was the keynote speaker on the topic New Possibilities for Teaching Nurses: Applying what we know to the evaluation of the BASC. Pam was the Principle Investigator on the NLN/Laerdal study on simulation in nursing.  Michael Seropian, MD, FRCPC and Bonnie Driggers, RN, MS, MPA followed Pam's presentation with an overview of simulation trends in healthcare and concepts in getting started and sustaining our programs. Our own BASC members took the podium in the afternoon to share the regional work that has been occurring.  Celeste Villanueva, CRNA, MS, spoke about Samuel Merritt School of Nursing's journey in building their new Simulation Center. Colleen O'Leary-Kelley RN, PhD, and Lina Gage-Kelly, ANP, MS, spoke about the BASC scenario development process and encouraged the group to begin writing scenarios for the BASC members.   The conference concluded with a panel of Simulation Center leaders to speak about their specific centers, the status, the barriers, the successes. The panel included BASC members:  Lou Halamek, MD, from CAPE/Stanford; Fran Brown RN, MSN, from the Napa Valley Simulation Center; Aurelie Chinn RN, MSN from Cabrillo College; Mary Ann Haueser RN, from Dominican.  The panel discussion was moderated by KT Waxman, MBA, RN, Program Director for the BASC.    We had great representation from our exhibitors who all contributed to the congerence:  Laerdal Medical, METI, inc, Gaumard Scientific, PocketNurse, Advance Magazine and Gannett Publishing.

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