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At ACEMAPP, protecting your information is a top priority. We understand the responsibility that comes with managing sensitive data, and we’ve built our platform to ensure a secure, reliable experience for all users in clinical education. 

We’re excited to announce the dates for our 2025 Fall Michigan and Ohio Member Meetings! These in-person events are an excellent opportunity for schools and sites to connect, ask questions, and stay informed on important ACEMAPP updates.

Coordinating clinical placements involves managing student schedules, rotation requirements, and compliance documentation, all of which rely on timely, accurate, and accessible communication between schools and clinical sites. As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, having the right tools in place is essential to support these collaborations. That’s why ACEMAPP offers several built-in features designed to streamline communication and keep both academic and clinical partners aligned.

Managing clinical rotations in ACEMAPP requires careful attention to detail, especially when it comes to roster submissions. One critical feature that helps streamline this process is the "Is This Roster Complete?" toggle. This setting determines when and how your rotation roster is sent to the clinical site, ensuring accuracy and compliance. Here’s what you need to know about this essential tool.

Students are often tasked with a long list of requirements to complete before a rotation begins and limited time to fulfill them. ACEMAPP supports students by providing a single space to upload requirements for both schools and clinical sites.

In today’s data-driven world, reliable and accessible data is crucial for effective decision-making. ACEMAPP offers healthcare organizations a tailored solution for streamlining the coordination of healthcare education and workforce recruitment. With ACEMAPP, users access actionable data to set strategic goals, avoid capacity challenges, and align educational programs with workforce needs.

As an ACEMAPP member, you already understand the importance of a streamlined clinical rotation platform for healthcare education, compliance, and recruitment. Powered by Michigan Health Council (MHC), ACEMAPP helps you manage these critical functions efficiently. Now, through an exciting collaboration, we’re thrilled to introduce you to MHC Insight—an essential service designed to elevate your workforce planning and clinical education efforts with powerful data insights.

Health systems around the country are constantly expanding – whether that is through mergers, new facility acquisitions, or moving their own services to new locations – and the process can be very daunting. Every expansion requires aligning practices and protocols. With ACEMAPP, this process is streamlined and well-documented, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks. Resources are available for newly acquired locations to seamlessly integrate into the ecosystem.

The team behind ACEMAPP is focused on adopting best practices that include lean processes. Consider the case of Wellstar Health System, the largest and most integrated healthcare system in the state of Georgia. Organizational efficiency is key when providing world-class care in a system that includes 11 hospitals, more than 325 medical office locations, 8 cancer centers, 91 rehabilitation centers, 35 imaging centers, 20 urgent care locations, and five health parks. Wellstar adopted ACEMAPP and lean processes across its entire health system, creating consistency across the board.

Effective feedback collection is crucial for continuous improvement in educational institutions. It’s especially important in the clinical education process so that educators can share insights and recommendations to make the learning experience even better. At Auburn University College of Nursing (AUCON), Preceptorship Placement Coordinator Kris Morrell, BSN, RN, and Clinical Placement Coordinator Abby Bell, BSN, RNC-OB, have implemented innovative practices to enhance their evaluation process and improve response rates. 

Clinical education coordinators play a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare professionals by ensuring students receive comprehensive and practical training during their clinical rotations. This week's Coordinator's Corner draws on the experiences of Holly Miller, M.Ed., RT(R), ARRT, RSO, Associate Professor and Clinical Coordinator at Dalton State College (DSC), and Joy James, Clinical Placement Coordinator at Atrium Health Floyd, to explore best practices for enhancing the clinical education experience when you have a small team.

ACEMAPP has established itself as a leader in the healthcare industry when it comes to streamlining the clinical rotation process for health clinics and educational systems alike. With the creation of ACEMAPP Assure, the platform has once again listened to industry pain points and developed an advanced option for solving common challenges. With ACEMAPP Assure, document review services have never been easier, or safer. ACEMAPP’s secure backend keeps data protected, while a trusted verification process ensures quick and efficient document turnaround, allowing clinical rotation managers to reallocate time that would otherwise be spent sifting through paperwork to other tasks that more directly support students and health systems.

ACEMAPP is a versatile, customizable platform that can assist healthcare systems of any size. At Ascension Michigan, ACEMAPP has streamlined the process of clinical rotation management across six large hospitals and a variety of healthcare educational programs across the state.
Hear from Ascension Professional Program Coordinator/Manager Lori Hamm about how our platform has moved thousands of students through their clinical rotations seamlessly, while significantly reducing time spent tracking paperwork and requirements. Lori talks about how she has been able to spend more time making sure each student gets the most out of their clinical placement.

ACEMAPP has proven time and time again to be the industry leader in providing workforce shortage solutions to hospital systems across the country. The platform had its roots as a digital solution to replace the time-intensive, manual task of managing the clinical rotations of college students studying healthcare. This mission has allowed ACEMAPP to expand its services and provide high school students with a pathway for exploring a healthcare career–the next evolution in supporting a talent pipeline for the healthcare industry.

The healthcare sector has been grappling for the past decade with how to solve a workforce shortage. As a platform rooted in solutions, ACEMAPP offers a seamless and efficient tool for clinical sites to identify and recruit top talent. Called ACEMAPP Communities, this tool can serve as an extension of an HR team. ACEMAPP Communities provide clinical sites with a way to move students in clinical education programs directly to their hiring team so that these potential job candidates can be evaluated and streamlined into the interview process.

Tracking success is crucial for managing clinical education experiences, but it can be difficult for clinical education coordinators responsible for so many logistics. Dawn Pauli, Director of Student Engagement and Clinical Placement Liaison at Wayne State University, has managed clinical education for 8 years. In that time, she's honed in on several strategies, emphasizing the importance of ACEMAPP reporting and member meetings.

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As we look at what’s ahead for 2024, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on how the ACEMAPP platform has evolved over the years. What started as a regional initiative to improve workforce capacity has grown into a solution used by clinical education professionals nationwide. “We’re thankful to have such incredible partners who have helped us to learn and grow,” says ACEMAPP Director of Business Development Stacy Gradowski. “We look forward to continuing to evolve to meet the needs of our partners in the years to come.” 

In this tips and tricks video, we cover some of the important emails that are sent automatically by ACEMAPP to students.

In the dynamic realm of nursing education, the significance of clinical experiences cannot be overstated. Janell Slavey, MSN, RN, a member of ACEMAPP and the Undergraduate Clinical Placement Coordinator at Michigan State University (MSU), has been instrumental in shaping clinical education practices. With 23 years of nursing experience under her belt, Slavey brings a wealth of knowledge and a passion for fostering the next generation of nurses.