Registering your school on Clinician Nexus is simple. This article will provide all the direction needed to prep your school's profile, and enter necessary information
Note: If you're a coordinator, the admin may have set up many of these steps already.
After reading this article you will be able to...
Set Up Your School Profile and Programs
Add School Staff
Create Your Personal Profile
Accept Affiliation Agreements from Clinical Site Partners
Invite Students
Add Faculty
Schedule Students
Monitor Student Progress
Set Up Your School Profile and Programs
If your school is not already listed, you can create a new school in Clinician Nexus. You will first be asked to add your school's name, your personal role title, and the school's address.
Then, you will be directed to finish setting up your school's public-facing profile. There you can add/edit the school's name, address, description, contact information, and profile picture. Click next, then add your organization's programs(s).
Add School Staff
After creating the organization's profile, continue to the next step by adding other staff members from your school. Click +Add staff and search by typing their name into the Name field. Then, enter their email address and an invitation to join Clinician Nexus will be sent to the email address you provide.
Add a job title and assign a role to each staff member you add. After initial set up, you can add, edit, and remove staff by using the Settings page.
Create Your Personal Profile
Once you've added staff, we recommend setting up your personal profile.
Click My account (profile picture icon) from the left dashboard menu
Click Edit my profile from the submenu
Add and edit the content of your profile
Click Save changes
The information you provide here will be displayed on your public-facing profile. We recommend including a professional photo, information about you, as well as interests. Providing this information allows other members of the clinical education community to put a face to your name, and get to know you.
Accept Affiliation Agreements From Clinical Site Partners
Affiliation agreements in Clinician Nexus serve the purpose of connecting you and your clinical site partner, so students can be scheduled for rotations offered by your partner facilities.
You may find one or more agreements pending your approval when logging in. Pending agreements will display on the agreements page.
Clicking Settings from your left dashboard menu
Click Agreements from the submenu
Click on the agreement from the list to review the details, propose changes, and accept the agreements with your partnering clinical sites.
Invite Students
You can add students to Clinician Nexus individually, or in a bulk spreadsheet upload.
Invite Students Individually:
Click Students from your left dashboard menu
Click + Add student from the submenu
Enter the student's program, full name, email address, student type, year of study, and graduation date.
Click Add student
This will automatically send an email invitation, to the student, to join Clinician Nexus and set up their profile.
OR
Invite students in bulk:
Click Students from your left dashboard menu
Click Import from spreadsheet from the submenu
Click Download empty spreadsheet
Add student data to the downloaded template. Make sure to include student name, email address, student year, anticipated graduation date, and student type.
Save the completed spreadsheet
On the Import Students page, click Choose File and select the completed spreadsheet to upload the students into Clinician Nexus.
Select the appropriate school program
Click Upload & import
Students will automatically be sent an email invitation to join Clinician Nexus and set up their profiles.
Confirm Pending Students
If students sign up on their own, a request to be confirmed by a school staff member will display at the top of your Dashboard under the title, Pending students.
Click Pending students to view the student request for confirmation by your organization.
Click Confirm student if you know this person attends your university.
Click This person is not a student here if you know the person is not a student at your university. This will send an automatic notification to the person, and ask them to select a different school.
You can also leave a student in pending status if you are unsure.
After you confirm a student, their name will display in the list of students on the Students page.
Add Faculty
Add faculty members to Clinician Nexus:
Click the Settings tab from the left dashboard menu
Click Staff from the sub-menu
Then, click + Add staff at the top of the page to send an invite to the faculty member.
Schedule Students
Once you have an agreement in place with your partner clinical site, and students are added into Clinician Nexus, you can schedule student rotations.
To do so:
Click + Schedule students from the left dashboard menu
In the Add student rotation window, you can select:
The agreement
The rotation service capacity window
One or more students: If you select more than one student, you will be given the option to create individual rotations for each selected student, or a single group rotation for all of the selected students. You will also be given the option to add faculty to the rotation(s).
Rotation date range: Depending on how your clinical site partner set up the rotation offerings, you may also have the ability to assign students to specific days of the week and/or shifts.
Click Submit to schedule the rotation.
After you've completed scheduling, your dashboard will populate with student rotations. Continue to monitor onboarding progress, or review any pending rotations, to see if any steps require your attention.
Monitor Student Progress
When you log into Clinician Nexus, you'll automatically be directed to the Dashboard. This view is meant to give you an overview of each rotation status within the process.
A circular marking on the top right of a rotation card indicates there are tasks requiring your completion. You can also filter to view rotations with steps to complete:
Click +Add filter
Select Has steps I can complete from the dropdown list
To view steps to complete, click on the rotation card and scroll to the bottom of the window.
Each application and/or onboarding step explains who can complete the step.
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