The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing has been working to develop a Centralized Clinical Nursing Scheduler Software Program. This program will allow hospital and nurse educators to track nursing students as they rotate through various clinical practicum rotations. The program was developed by the TTUHSC Paul L. Foster School of Medicine and nursing leadership at William Beaumont Army Medical Center (WBAMC).

“The Centralized Clinical Nursing Scheduler Program responds to the urgent need to automate the labor-intensive task of requesting clinical practicum rotations for nursing students in El Paso. It will maximize the use of clinical sites in El Paso for the benefit of students, educational institutions and hospitals. William Beaumont Army Medical Center is demonstrating their pioneering spirit and commitment to innovation by partnering with the TTUHSC Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing to pilot the Program,” said Josefina Lujan, PhD, RN, interim dean of the Hunt School of Nursing.

The Centralized Clinical Nursing Scheduler Program, which has been in development since August of 2011, is currently being tested by the staff at WBAMC and is going through the refinement process.

“Beaumont is ready to pilot the program and we’re working to make it an external URL. Because they are a military hospital, their network is very secure and our IT teams are working together to make the program public. If all goes well, they should begin piloting the program in a few weeks,” said Lizeth Corral, director of Information Technology at TTUHSC El Paso.

Development of the program was spearheaded by Dr. Lujan, in collaboration with Col. John Modell, Chief of Nursing at WBAMC.