General Description:

The Clinical Onboarding Specialist (COS) collaborates with faculty, students and the Clinical Placement Consortium in developing and implementing plans for prelicensure and graduate clinical placements each semester.


Collaboration involves reviewing program and student clinical site requests and available site preceptors for the various clinical courses, as well as continually evaluating current sites and developing new sites with available and competent preceptors. The COS acts as liaison to the Consortium for PLU.


The Clinical Onboarding Specialist (COS) is the primary contact between Pacific Lutheran University School of Nursing (SoN) and the Clinical Placements Northwest (CPNW) Coordinator, who coordinates with area health care agencies used for student clinical experiences. Responsibilities include initiating and maintaining facilitating agency orientations, creating, submitting, and maintaining clinical placement...