In the United States, there are current and impending shortages of Registered Nurses (RNs) at both the bedside and within academia. This problem is compounded by an aging RN workforce, as fifty-five percent of RNs are over age 50 and plan to retire within the next five to ten years. To complicate matters even further, the turnover rate among newly licensed RNs averages 17.1% in the first year of practice and 33.5 % within the first two years of practice (Ackerson & Stiles 2018).

Therefore the challenge facing nursing education is how to prepare future nurses and other healthcare professionals. The solution is to expand capacity for more clinical placements and to replace manual processes with more efficient technology supported processes.

This presentation will both describe and demonstrate how SUNY Empire State College’s School of Nursing and Allied Health (the “College”) used innovative cloud-based technology created by Davin Workforce Solutions, Inc. (“Davin”) to more effectively track clinical placements and manage the credentialing process for the College’s nursing students. Prior to establishing this connection, all student information needed to secure clinical placements for undergraduate and graduate nursing students was managed using labor-intensive manual processes and spreadsheets.