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NEONI Program Simplifies Nursing Student Onboarding Process

A number of Northeast Ohio’s nursing schools and hospitals enjoyed a more efficient nursing student onboarding process this fall thanks to NEONI’s ACEMAPP Passport program.

Each year, schools and hospitals work together to assign nursing students to clinical placements, which students are required to complete in order to achieve licensure. To ease the process of matching students to their clinical placements, Northeast Ohio schools and hospitals use ACEMAPP, NEONI’s online clinical placement system, which utilizes web-based technology to place students into available clinical rotations. ACEMAPP Passport further simplifies the onboarding process by ensuring that students have met all of the requirements necessary for placement in a clinical rotation.

The web-based onboarding program houses information detailing rotation requirements from the school such as:

• Vaccination records
• TB test results
• Basic Life Support Certification
• Background check completion
• Drug screen completion

In addition, ACEMAPP Passport contains student courses and assessments on regulatory topics such as HIPAA and OSHA. It also enables students to complete a personal profile, which allows hospitals to conveniently carry out administrative tasks ahead of the students’ arrival, including:

• Badging
• Making parking arrangements
• Granting access to electronic medical records system
• Receiving student rosters

“Hospitals benefit because they get more information in an organized timely fashion and the schools benefit because the program really streamlines the onboarding process,” said Sue Zagula, NEONI’s director of placement services. “It reduces paperwork because students’ records stay in the system a full year. Since all hospitals prefer this onboarding system, the schools eliminate duplication of the same information on different forms.”

Over the last several months, the newly-created ACEMAPP Advisory Council worked together to standardize definitions used within the program. Already in use by 325 students this fall, the program is ramping up for full implementation, which is slated for the fall of 2014, when it will serve as the primary mode of onboarding in Northeast Ohio for 24 hospitals and 27 clinical sites.

For more information on how ACEMAPP Passport simplifies the nursing student onboarding process, contact Sue Zagula via email or at 216.255.3664.