Clinical Services
HWL’s Clinical Services deliver the expertise, structure, and support your workforce needs—from preceptorship programs that expand student capacity to rigorous clinical screening and interviewing that ensures only the best clinicians are placed.
Build a More Competent, Confident, and Prepared Clinical Workforce
HWL’s Clinical Services help organizations overcome capacity constraints, burnout, and variability in clinical quality. Whether you’re training the next generation of nurses or hiring experienced clinicians, our solutions provide the infrastructure, expertise, and oversight required to support workforce excellence.
We offer two complementary service lines designed to work together or stand alone:
- Clinical Compass: A scalable contract preceptor model that expands student capacity, reduces burnout, and strengthens workforce pipelines.
- Clinical Screening & Interviewing Services: A rigorous, clinically led vetting and interviewing process that ensures every candidate meets your standards before they ever walk onto a unit.
Clinical Compass: RN Preceptorship Reimagined
Clinical Compass is HWL’s turnkey contract preceptorship program that connects experienced RNs with academic institutions and health systems—expanding student capacity, reducing onsite burnout, and preparing new nurses for real-world practice.
What Clinical Compass Solves
- Burnout among overextended staff
- Limited preceptor availability
- Reduced student placement capacity
- Manual coordination and scheduling burdens
- Weak or inconsistent talent pipelines
How It Works
Strategic Collaboration
HWL partners with your health system, academic institutions, and staffing agencies to build a shared framework.
Expert Preceptor Deployment
Qualified contract RNs—vetted for experience and system familiarity—are hired and matched to student needs.
Built-In Clinical Oversight
HWL’s Clinical Advisors provide ongoing support, curriculum alignment, and evaluation.
End-to-End Management
From screening to placement and scheduling, HWL manages the entire process.
No tech setup. No administrative burden.
Preceptor Model
Assignments:
6–16 weeks
Qualifications:
- Active RN license
- 3–5 years of nursing experience
- Recent experience at the health system
- Required certifications
Responsibilities:
- Deliver curriculum-aligned clinical education
- Mentor and evaluate students
- Maintain compliance with site expectations
Benefits by Stakeholder
For Health Systems
- Reduce nurse burnout
- Expand student placement capacity
- Improve readiness and retention of new grads
- Strengthen pipelines in hard-to-staff units
For Academic Institutions
- Expand class sizes and clinical placements
- Improve student outcomes
- Bridge theory and practice
- Offer structured, competency-based experiences
For Staffing Agencies
- New contract and leadership opportunities
- Support clinician career growth
- Build pathways for future leaders
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Clinical Screening & Interviewing: Quality You Can Trust
HWL’s clinically led screening and interviewing services ensure healthcare organizations receive candidates who are not only qualified on paper—but vetted for clinical competence, experience, and fit.
How It Works
Our Screening & Interviewing Includes:
- Clinical skills assessments
- Behavioral and competency-based interviews
- Experience and specialty alignment
- Certification and licensure verification
- Cultural and unit-fit evaluation
- Comprehensive documentation and credential review
- Clinical leadership oversight
Why Organizations Trust HWL With Clinical Vetting
- Consistent, unbiased, clinically informed evaluation
- Faster decision-making with fewer hiring risks
- Increased hiring quality across nursing, allied, and advanced practice roles
- Reduced burden on internal clinical and HR teams
- Seamless integration with your hiring workflows or vendor programs
Outcomes You Can Expect
- Improved workforce quality
- Higher retention through better candidate alignment
- Reduced onboarding issues or mismatches
- Stronger patient care through more competent staff
Candidates screened and interviewed in 2025
%
Denied due to insufficient experience or not meeting customer requirements
%
Approved for hire after interview
Minutes per candidate interview, saving time for clients
Program Benefits
Confidence in quality of hire
Promotes your brand
Time savings for managers
Reduction in time to fill positions
Improved candidate experience
Improved quality of match
Increased retention
Scalable and flexible model
No outside additional costs
24/7 clinical support for managers & candidate interviews
A Clinical Team Committed to Raising the Standard of Your Workforce
Behind every screening and interview is HWL’s dedicated team of experienced clinical professionals—including former nurse leaders, clinical educators, and specialty-trained RNs—who bring decades of frontline and leadership expertise to every evaluation.
Our team understands the nuances of clinical practice because they’ve done the work themselves. Their experience ensures every candidate is assessed with the right blend of rigor, compassion, and real-world insight.
Nancy Bourg RN, BSHCA, MBA
Senior Vice President InSourcing & Chief Clinical Officer
“Our Clinical Services Team has a passion for quality results with deep experience assisting healthcare organizations with screening, interviewing and matching candidates to open positions. Our extensive screening and scenario based clinical & behavioral interviews ensure our clients receive the best candidates which minimizes time-consuming tasks involved with the initial stages of onboarding. I am proud to lead our Clinical Services Team and see the exceptional results we produce.”
HWL’s Clinical Advisory Team
Katie Livesay, RN, BSN
Travel Nurse Experience
AnnMarie Pallo RN, AND
Travel & Air Ambulance Experience
Barbrielle Harper, RN, BSN
RN Management & Hiring
Betty Pelissier RN, BSN
Nurse Preceptor
Carol Rohrsted, RN, BSN
Critical Care Director
Dawn Beaty-Edwards, BSN, RN, MAUB
Cardiac Care, Transplant
Kathleen Fodor, RN, RNFA
Registered Nurse First Assistant in OR
Lisa Alu, RN, BSN
Cardiac ICU
Melinda Cunningham, BSN, RN
Telemetry Clinical Manager
Rachel Crighton, RN, BSN
Trauma ED RN
Sondra Morrison, RN, BSN
Chemo/Infusion RN
Teresa Ruffini, RN, BPS
Rehab Director for Brain & Spinal Cord Injury
Tracy Young, RN, BSN
Float Pool & Endoscopy
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Transform Your Clinical Workforce with HWL
Whether you need a scalable preceptorship model or expert clinical screening, HWL is your partner in building a more prepared, resilient, and future-ready workforce.