Laura Pallone

• Coordinated student clinical placements, schedules, and supplemental learning experiences while balancing academic requirements, site availability, and student needs.
• Acted as the main contact between the college and clinical agencies, building and maintaining partnerships with healthcare organizations, preceptors, and clinical sites.
• Worked with academic leadership to support clinical placement needs aligned with course objectives, curriculum requirements, and student learning outcomes.
• Recruited, hired, onboarded, and supported clinical instructors, preceptors, and adjunct clinical faculty; assisted with faculty orientation and ongoing coordination.
• Shared agency requirements, clinical expectations, and compliance standards with students and faculty, and managed completion and distribution of required documentation.
• Maintained accurate clinical placement records and distributed clinical attestations and other required documentation to clinical agencies.
• Contributed to faculty meetings and strategic planning initiatives supporting program operations, clinical education, and continuous improvement.

• Coordinated group clinical rotations, leadership experiences, and student preceptor pairings to ensure seamless integration into department workflows.
• Resolved scheduling conflicts, placement capacity issues, and on-site behavioral or clinical performance concerns to maintain effective collaboration between student preceptors and nurse managers.
• Supported placement coordinators, deans, and faculty across partner universities and colleges.
• Maintained strong working relationships with partner schools.
• Managed hospital unit capacity by analyzing schedules and resource availability. across competing school schedules.
• Reviewed incoming student and faculty records for state compliance and hospital onboarding requirements.
• Tracked immunizations, drug screenings, background checks, and certifications.
• Worked with legal and risk management teams to revise affiliation agreements with participating schools.
• Led hospital orientations and supported badging, EHR access, HIPAA training, and hospital safety instruction.

• Reviewed and initiated commercial insurance authorizations, accelerating discharge processes and minimizing delays for patients requiring post-acute care.

• Completed patient discharges by reviewing discharge plans, collaborating with medical teams, and facilitating timely transfers to facilities chosen by patients.

• Participated in daily rounds with medical teams to provide patient updates and enhance discharge planning through effective communication.

• Reviewed Medicare rights with Medicare patients before discharge, supporting compliance and patient understanding of post-discharge benefits.