Research Findings: Inside Programs Using CORE for Nursing

Okay. We'll get started. Welcome, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us, and we're excited to have you. Before we dive into our webinar, I'm going to just address a couple of quick housekeeping items. First, I wanted to let everyone know that during the presentation, if you do have questions, the Q&A box is open and available at the bottom of your screen. We'll be monitoring those throughout, and we will address as many as we can either throughout the presentation or, more likely, at the end of the presentation. We'll have a Q&A period, but feel free to add them as soon as you think of your questions. Second, we are recording today's session. So if you need to step away or revisit, you know, anything later, don't worry. We'll share that recording. Know that we're also happy, of course, to meet with you one-on-one. So however we can support with next steps, know we'll be here, but we will certainly share that recording. With all that being said, let's get started. So I would like to start things off by introducing Scott Jeffe, who is our independent researcher. It was really important to us to have independent research and, you know, not present on research from CORE and PeopleGrove directly. So, Scott, if you don't mind introducing yourself. Absolutely. Hey, folks. I am Scott Jeffe, and I have spent my entire career doing research for colleges and universities that want to understand what they need to do to be — to align, perhaps, I should say — with what students need today. Last year, I did a lot of work with PeopleGrove while I was doing consulting for the year, and CORE. And I learned so much by doing some studies for them where I talked in depth with some of their partners and clients. And although I'm not an expert in nursing, I have spent so much of my career helping institutions understand how they can expand and grow nursing programs. This study was particularly interesting. I have gone back to a full-time job, but when they asked me to come back and present this research with Alexis, I was super glad to be doing that. And I hope that we're planning a really interesting conversation. I have so many quotes and ideas that I learned during the study, and here I have my Alexa — my Alexa talking to me, so I'm going to turn that off. One of those real-world moments during a webinar. So, Alexis, let's go. Thank you, Scott. And for those of you that I'm meeting for the first time, my name is Alexis Carbone. I am Senior Vice President of Campus Partnerships here at PeopleGrove. I've been with the company for almost eighteen years now, assisting programs like yours with our solutions and implementing our solutions. So any questions you have today about CORE by PeopleGrove, you know, I'll be happy to answer. Okay. Moving along. So if you were on our first webinar of the series, you would have learned a lot about this. So we presented on the trends in nursing research that we did. This is annual research that our company, you know, explores. We distributed a survey in February of 2026 to nursing programs across the United States, most of which are not CORE clients, but represent various programs. So, you know, undergraduate, graduate. And some interesting facts we wanted to share, in case you missed them in the first webinar. We were really surprised to find that 97% of programs do not have a fully connected technology infrastructure. So that's something we're definitely going to touch upon today and, you know, continue in our third webinar of the series where we'll show you, you know, actually how CORE can help to streamline many solutions, you know, into one solution with CORE. 57% of programs are actively working to consolidate vendors. So, you know, if you are one of those programs, we'd be happy to show you how CORE can help with streamlining and consolidating vendors. We were also surprised to learn only 15% of programs regularly review student performance dashboards. So we're going to touch on that today. And then, again, in the third webinar, we're going to show you how easy that is to do, you know, within CORE ELMS and CompMS. And onboarding complexity was cited as a top preceptor challenge. So, again, something we'll address today, but we'll also be showing you in the third part of the webinar series where we actually are giving, you know, a demo of each of our solutions. So today is not meant to be a demo. It's really, you know, meant to present the research that Scott found. And we will discuss, you know, some feedback from our clients and, you know, how CORE can help, and then we'll actually show you that in the third part of the series. These challenges are something we're hearing about constantly from our clients and, you know, those schools that are exploring CORE. They definitely seem to be consistent across all the programs that we speak to. I think the number one challenge we're hearing is growing placement volume. So we hear that — I mean, this is a good problem to have. We don't hear it in other disciplines, but there are many nursing programs that say they would love to enroll more students. It's really a capacity issue right now with clinical rotations. So clinical demand is rising faster than really capacity for the program. Number two, of course, a very common one with the new Essentials, but evolving accreditation standards and shifting to be more competency-based, evidence-based, and not just depending on hours and traditional exams. So something we're definitely going to dig into today. Stretched admin teams. So we know you're still working with the same headcount, but you have more work, higher stakes, more accreditation reporting that's required of you. We are hearing that, you know, there is a big cost of operational errors, either miscompliance, scheduling gaps, you know, determining that a student isn't ready to actually be placed at a site maybe just days before they're supposed to begin. So we'll talk about how, you know, we can assist with that. And another very common one, preparing practice-ready clinicians. So it's not enough today that, you know, RNs are passing NCLEX exams. It's also important that they leave with the outcomes, you know, required to really be practice-ready. And an interesting statistic that we found was 23.8% of all newly hired RNs have left, you know, their position within the first year. So, you know, at CORE by PeopleGrove, you know, our goal is to really help to improve that, to work with your program so that you're having the oversight and ability to do early intervention if there are, you know, certain outcomes that students are struggling with, and we'll talk about that more as we go on. So from here, I'm going to turn things over to Scott to, you know, tell us about the research that he did. Absolutely. You know, the funny thing — the amazing thing about that statistic you just closed with, Alexis, is, in my early days of my career when I was at an institution, I was at a community college here in New York City doing fundraising. And one of the ideas that we had was scholarships for nursing students to grow the nursing population. We're talking twenty years ago, so the nursing shortage was even stronger then. When we went out and we talked to funding sources for possibly creating nursing scholarships, as far back as then, they said, before we fund more nursing scholarships, we need to solve the problem of the fact that a quarter of nurses leave their first job within the first year. This has been a long-time problem. And as far — I only tell that story because that was more than twenty years ago when those folks were saying that to me. So, anyway, that was just one of those many experiences that I've had over the years. When I was doing this research, what did we do, folks? Okay. So I conducted seven extensive deep interviews with CORE PeopleGrove clients that are some of their longest-term users of what we're going to be talking about today. This was late last year. I did a couple very early this year as we wrapped up the work. And from those extensive conversations and, by the way, although we're not naming them, these people gave us more than an hour of their time with some obvious prep and everything. So if any of you are on the line, I want to just say, on my behalf and from our friends at CORE PeopleGrove, thank you so much for participating. What you said is resonating in my mind. It's resonating with our friends here at PeopleGrove CORE, and that's great. So from the interviews, what we wanted to do was figure out how we could make this most helpful for all of you folks that are struggling with these issues and leading operations. So we developed five strategies. This is going to be the core of what we're going to be talking about today. The people we interviewed were deans, directors, coordinators, and faculty. We didn't want to just talk to leadership. We didn't want to just talk to the low — we distributed these across the roles, and I think it was really very helpful. As was stated in the report that's going to be coming out with this, high-performing programs are not simply adopting new tools. They are implementing a set of integrated operational strategies that enable them to manage complexity, improve outcomes, and sustain performance over time. I couldn't have said it better, so I decided to just read the quote there because that's what we wrote in the report when we were writing it. Alright. So let's move on, Alexis. Alright. So the five strategies that we're going to work through today actually started as sifting through all of the information in these verbatim conversations that we had. What we first came up with was the themes that these users said again and again and again, and we came up with these themes. And then, but how can we make this useful for all of you in a — for at a wide array of institutions and so on? Could we figure out a way that these themes of our conversations could be turned into strategies? And indeed, they could. What are those themes? Establishing structured, role-aligned workflows; centralizing operations to drive efficiency; leveraging integrated technology; treating implementation as an ongoing partnership; and embedding accreditation readiness into daily operations. If this sounds like some of those challenges that Alexis laid out, if it sounds like some of those findings, that is not by accident, but it is definitely not contrived either. These are some of the biggest issues. And so now we're going to talk a little bit about what we learned. Alright. Back to you, Alexis. Alright. So let's just get right into this. Our first strategy: establish structured, role-aligned workflows. One of the quotes that I come back to again and again was, "When you can run reports and see what everyone is doing at any time of the day or night, by the way, it makes everyone accountable and responsible." That is what we need in today's environment. Now, Alexis, you are out there working with these people day after day after day. How does this resonate with what you hear when you're out on the road talking with people? We hear this every day. I can think of one client that, before they implemented CORE, they described their processes as being, you know, a well-oiled machine, but there were a lot of parts to that machine. You know, everyone had a different responsibility, and there was trust, you know, that the work that needed to be done was completed, but there was no way to get at the data. You were having to chase, you know, that one person that was responsible for site contracts or for collecting availability from preceptors. So it was being done, but it was taking a lot of time, and there was no visibility. So after implementing CORE, they were, you know, excited that they could easily see what was complete, what was missing, where support was needed, and that visibility really created accountability in a constructive way. Yeah. I couldn't agree more, and quote after quote was in this area. Another quote that somebody said was, "Usability is most strongly associated with clarity. Knowing where information lives, how processes are executed, and how responsibilities are distributed is invaluable to making things work today." And I just loved the way the person said that. So, you know, we've put some of these — some of the things that you're going to see in the report — over on this right-hand side. But where this naturally went is actually that first bullet here, which is centralization as foundation is really important. I see this in the work that I do with institutions day after day after day. My areas of expertise have always been everything that higher ed does that's not an eighteen-year-old. And those things have often been decentralized. They've often, honestly, been a little bit disorganized because everybody's doing their own thing. So that experience resonated with me with this work. But, again, where it naturally goes next is centralization as foundation. And, Alexis, unless you have anything more, that leads us directly into our second strategy. And that strategy, what is it: centralized operations to drive efficiency. I've given you the preamble here, but I loved the quote from this user: "We had a hodgepodge of systems. Hours were logged in one system. Preceptor information was stored in spreadsheets. A quick scan will show me now everything that I need to know at any given time." Alexis, again, give us some detail on how you see this playing out when you're on campus. I would say this is one of the top three reasons why we see nursing programs and health science programs switch from whatever they're using today over to CORE. And it's because, typically, they're needing to use multiple systems where CORE is much more comprehensive. Later in the webinar, we're going to talk about some of the features that are included. But we've been doing this for a long time. So I told you I've been with the company for eighteen years. I didn't even start on day one, you know, with the company. We've been around for over twenty years. In our early days, we were actually a preceptor site. So we lived and breathed this. We were, you know, taking students. Our founder was a preceptor for many local programs. So it's something we really understand. Over the years, we have had wonderful clients who share great feedback with us. We have a huge, amazing development team where, you know, anything related to clinical rotations, if there was a need, it has been built into CORE. We tell our clients, if you're doing something related to clinicals outside of the system, we want to hear about it because it shouldn't be done out of the system. With over thirty different modules, you know, there's a way to manage all of your operations within CORE. So we've grown. We've developed over time, and it's really, you know, thanks and credit to so many amazing clients who have been willing to, you know, share feedback with us. You know what — this was one of the most interesting areas because, as a market researcher, a higher ed market researcher, I'm always imploring institutions: think with data. Use the data. You're sitting on a gold mine of data and so on. And I often hear, "It's just so hard to get. It's so hard to access" and so on. And the more I learned as I was doing this, the more I could see this is powering the ability to think with data. But I want to just talk a little bit about the other things that I learned and I heard in this theme. I'm actually going to go to that third bullet there: scale without losing control. One of those things, of course — Alexis has already talked about it — and that is, you know, if you're going to grow enrollment, you're growing clinical placements. You're growing all kinds of bureaucratic steps that need to happen. And what I heard when I heard things like programs are managing from one to a thousand — I mean, we're going to delve into this more later — but this allows that to be done seamlessly. I had a quote here that I loved: "Now that we have CORE in place, in the first year after it was in place, we had 90% of our students placed before the semester started." Now, of course, everybody hopes that they'll have it all done beforehand. But if you're dealing with a massive number, this was actually a huge finding from that person I was talking with. They had 90% of them done before the first day of class, and that was such a relief to them. Streamline — another thing that I loved to hear was — and I asked them about faculty here. You know, sometimes faculty, I mean, that might not be the easiest thing, centralizing operations. But once you kind of get over the hurdle of doing something new, what I heard again and again is the centralization and the ease with which these centralized processes, when you're using CORE, can actually be done, you know, on your phone, on your tablet, on your computer, whatever it might be. Just go there and do the next thing that needs to be done. I was really pleased to hear that. And so just before we move on, I want to go back up and end on that second bullet. This was something that, again, from the market researcher who loves to hear people using data — I wish I had the quote. I was just looking for it. But moving from reactive to proactive oversight — wasn't incredible. And we've got an incredible quote somewhere. I'm sorry I can't see it. But the theme there was: because thinking with data used to be a process that had to be done, we had to plan for that. And so we would typically only go to the data when we had a problem. Right? Well, if the data's at your fingertips, you can go from being reactive to being proactive. And, again, the end of the quote that we featured here: "A quick scan now will show me everything I need to know at any given time within clicks or seconds." It's just amazing. Alright. Okay. So from there, the next theme was built around this idea of integrated technology to advance clinical education. And so the strategy is: how do you leverage integrated technology to advance clinical education? I've already given you a little bit of a foretaste in some of the things we've talked about. But, again, here's a quote that I just loved: "There is a much stronger requirement now to track competencies and link them into classroom work." That's part of the new accreditation standards, right, and more. You can build incredible efficiencies through working in an integrated system. It is an investment that pays dividends. Now, Alexis, tell us more how you see this playing out when you're working with schools. Sure. So we've heard schools — some programs called it almost like data days where they would have to dedicate time to digging into data, finding, you know, the evaluation data in one place, the hours data in another place. And after implementing CORE, there isn't a need for that because you have real-time data. We have things like low score alerts, you know, instant visibility into individual students, cohorts of students. You have the ability to compare, you know, certain clinical faculty. Are there certain faculty that are always rating students below average or above average? It makes it very easy to find those trends. And, of course, you know, outcomes or competency tracking. Are there certain competencies that entire cohorts are struggling with? Or, you know, cohorts who completed one version of a course are struggling with more than, you know, a cohort that was in a different version of that same course. So it makes it easier to analyze that, you know, make changes in real time rather than having to wait, you know, for those dedicated data days or, you know, times where you're digging in. And, definitely, we don't want any of our programs waiting for the accreditation process to see those insights because at that point, you know, the students have likely graduated, and it's, you know, too late to address any gaps or concerns. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, this first bullet on the right-hand side is something that I can hear the person saying this to me: from hours to outcomes. And what we're talking about there is what this user said: the goal used to be to track the hours. Like, that was the goal we had to get because that was the accreditation standard. Like, we had to document that the hours were being done. Now we've gone from the goal just being get the hours in, make sure everybody's putting them in the system there and they're there, to using the data that comes from the reporting of the hours to actually assess outcomes. And that is a huge advance. It's using — it's working with the data again, I guess, for me. So that was really good. Accreditation bodies are demanding not only hours. They're demanding that the schools demonstrate that the competencies have been mastered. And I know that's one of the things that CORE is really advancing for institutions, so that's just a fantastic thing. You know, a couple of these other things — smart matching enforces governance. Students can only document experiences when properly assigned to do so. I remember one of our users saying, "The fact that a student can only put in their hours or document something when I've assigned them to do it allows me to be sure" — it increases the efficacy of the data. And that's another thing that the accreditors are asking for in greater — if I'm understanding what's going on correctly. So that was really something that was very nice also. And then — that last bullet there, again, reporting as a strategic asset. Program leaders are using data daily to monitor progress, identify discrepancies, and evaluate performance for decision making, not just compliance. That brings us kind of back to that first bullet, which is going from just a rote exercise of getting everything into a system or many systems or whatever they were doing to actually really being able to focus on outcomes. So it's kind of a virtuous circle. And sometimes it's more of the soft skills, right, that we can't really test for. It's not going to show up in an exam, but with everything mapped, you know, to outcomes, you're able to pick up on things like that more easily. Yeah. You know, I want to close this one with one last quote that I just thought was great. When we were talking with one of your users, they said, "What was once a chore is now just a click of a button." And I mean, that's just — That's our goal. That's music to our ears. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Alright. So let's go on to our fourth strategy. We're powering through these. I think some of your colleagues will be amazed at how quickly I'm going through these things, Alexis. I've worked with leadership at PeopleGrove and CORE for a decade, and they're some of my favorite. You're in such good hands if you're working with these people. Anyway, I digress. I digress. Strategy four: treat implementation as an ongoing partnership. So, you know, part of these interviews were, what's it like to work with PeopleGrove and CORE? And I loved this quote here: "The people at PeopleGrove CORE, they're always responsive. The attitude is, we will make it work for you." The implication: whatever you need, we will figure out and make it work. My favorite statistic of all time, Scott, we have nearly a 98% client retention rate, and we've maintained that over the years as we've grown. It's very important to me, to leadership, to everyone at PeopleGrove and CORE. And we hear the number one reason why clients stay with us is because we really become partners. We're invested in their success. We really don't want you to look at us like we're just another vendor or a tool. We know we need to evolve with you. Standards, accreditation expectations, they're always changing. The world is always changing. So we know we need to change with you, and we really want to be true partners. That's important to us. You know, what you just said reminds me of another quote that I loved. One of your users told me, "Platform adoption is not static anymore. It's an evolutionary process." And the needs change as situations and accreditation standards change. And the fact that the capabilities can expand in PeopleGrove CORE is a huge value in this world that we are living in. Look, with the tech environment that we're in, the general environment that we're living and working in today, everything is evolutionary now. And the fact that the platform can evolve with them — one of the themes that is not here, but several of your users said words to the effect of, "We are getting so much out of this, and we're only scratching the surface of what it can do." And to me, we didn't put it in the report because, you know, I don't know how you'd say that. But as voice-over at the webinar, I just really liked that point that there's — that your users see so much potential. And the fact that you come in and you are a partner rather than just a vendor — and, oh, you get five hours, or, you know, whatever these situations are — really does resonate with your users. I love another quote: "Implementation was a significant and huge undertaking for our institution. It was all hands on deck for us, and we sensed that it was all hands on deck for PeopleGrove CORE too." And, again, I mean, that was fantastic. And such a tangible way of visualizing what the undertaking is. And that's what's kept me here for eighteen years. I mean, we have great clients. We have a great team. Everyone wants to collaborate, and it is just such a nice place to work. And we are so lucky to have so many wonderful clients. Yeah. I loved the second theme there. I mean, I don't want to go down all of these, but the collaborative problem solving was another theme that came out in several of these conversations. So, you know — look, I love the acknowledgment among your partners that there are very unique things at every institution. And then there are things that sometimes people think are unique, but they're not unique. And that you deal with over and over again. And that's the value of working with a real — of an outside entity that is working with many institutions. Because sometimes you can bring to the table a solution that they think is perhaps unsolvable or something that's unique to them, but you've seen dozens of times. Is that a phenomenon that you see where your clients think they have something unique, but it isn't? Yes. And everyone's a little bit unique in their own way, and that's why our system is so configurable. But at the end of the day, the needs are very similar. You have the same accreditation standards. Right? So what you're trying to accomplish is the same. And how we get there, you know, that's how our team is able to help. So the solution is very configurable. We have experts on staff. We've been doing this for a long time. So, really, there shouldn't be anything that you can take to us that we have not heard before. We've been doing this for a long time. And oftentimes, new clients, you have your priorities, of course, certain features that you need to implement immediately. But we try to expose you to everything else you could be doing within CORE so that every year, you know, you're implementing more and more and getting as much value out of the system as you possibly can. That's just really good. Alright. So now we're going to our fifth strategy and our probably our biggest single issue that is confronting all of our institutions out there today. And it focuses on the evolving accreditation standards and things like this. And so, you know, the strategy upon which we built this theme was: embed accreditation readiness into everyday operations. Again, this is the ultimate example of thinking with data on a day-to-day basis. This is kind of the culmination of the first four things that we've been talking about just right now. The quote that I loved most was, "We went through accreditation knowing that we needed a product like this. We want to maintain survey readiness, not scramble before every review." Alexis, tell me more about what you're seeing as the pressures and the concerns and things as folks prepare for their next accreditation or whatever we might refer to that as. Yeah. So my team, we are meeting with programs that aren't using CORE yet. Right? And we're often hearing, "Oh, I can't take your meeting because we are up for accreditation in a year." Whereas clients who are using CORE, I don't think they feel that same type of pressure because the data is all available. They're not having to spend a year, you know, organizing and finding information. It should be ready at any point. If they had a surprise visit, you know, you could even have an accreditor set up as a reporting-only administrator. And, technically speaking, they could go in at any point and pull the data that they need. So we're looking to really solve that problem for our clients. We want you to have all of your data in real time so you're not having to spend a year or two years, you know, preparing for your next accreditation visit. That's right. Because, again, let — I mean, think about — I mean, almost every single one of those interviews, and I mean, it was only seven people, but almost every one of them described for me their pre-CORE world as one in which some things were being — they had a platform for one thing. They may have had another platform for another thing. There were at least two or three things that were just being handled by an Excel spreadsheet. And so those were some serious challenges. And so then you get the understanding, as you just said, somebody saying, "I can't do a meeting because I have accreditation in a year," makes a lot more sense than on the surface that it might if you know that they were going to have to be pulling all that stuff together. They were going to have to — somebody said, "We used to have a team that was assigned" — I don't know — I don't remember how many months, but they had a team of people that was going to be preparing, and it was really pulling the data and getting the data in order. And then you compare that with the person that told me, "At any moment, I can go and press a button and get a report on just about anything that anyone comes to me with a question on." So there we have it in real action. Of course, you're going to have to document all this stuff when you're up for accreditation. But this user — and this was not the dean, this was the person that is in there using it every day — She's saying that any day of the year, somebody might write her an email asking a question. She goes into CORE and with a "bing bing bing bing bing," you know, whatever, presses the buttons. She has a report. She has a data-driven answer for them. That's what we're talking about when we say embed accreditation readiness into everyday operations. It gives you at your fingertips the answer to just about any question that you have. Centralized documentation. It also gives you real-time oversight, as we've put over on the right-hand side. And then that governance and traceability — I mean, again, that is something that was an underlying theme. But as we are working in a regulatory environment now that goes beyond just accreditation, where at any moment, we may need to have data in hand to respond to any number of other things that are emerging — again, there you have the data. Just incredible. Exactly. And, technically, you don't even have to go in and pull that report. If this is data that there's someone on your team, let's say, wants to look at every Friday, once we have that report built, you can even have it automated and automatically sent to your director or to your dean, which makes it even more simple. One of your users had a story about that where, of course, it's being used by multiple program directors because, you know, there are multiple entry points. And one of them is just, you know, I think a data nerd or something like that. Pardon the expression. I'm a data nerd. And they've set that up so that that person gets — doesn't have to go to everybody because the other people — Right. Just want it less periodically — or I'm butchering that phrase. Whatever. You know what I mean. But, indeed, that director gets it every Friday or once a week. So — Exactly. We want to keep things simple. Yeah. That customizability. That's another — you know, look, I say of the student audience today, when I'm talking to institutions, I say you have to remember that we are educating now not one, but two generations that have grown up in a customized, personalized world where everything has been kind of handed to them on a silver platter. But here's something that I will bring to this conversation from my world, and that is when I have aggregated data from a survey by the three generations all the way to the old folks like me — from Gen X to millennials to Gen Z — about these issues of customization, personalization, expectation of immediate response, tech, and what have you, I have always assumed that old fogies will be more tolerant of delay, more aware and willing to do things rote or wait or whatever these things may be. And you know what? We aren't. We are only fractions behind the millennials and Gen Z. And the reason I say that is that has application here for you folks and the end users of CORE. We're all now living in a world, and we have gotten very used to a world that is tech-enhanced, tech-enabled, whatever we want to call it, where we can do things very quickly. All of us with the gray hair may remember waiting in line at a bank, but we don't want to do it anymore. And it's processes like this that help us get our work done efficiently, and it's just fantastic. Exactly. I'm pontificating again, but it's really good stuff. Okay. So just to summarize here — really, was this you or me? I'm just suddenly realizing it is me. Right? This is you. Yes. Here we are, folks, having another real-world moment here. Okay. So, structure drives performance. Programs that embrace standardized workflows, centralized systems operate more efficiently and with greater consistency. Cheers. I know I've talked about that a lot. Depth drives results. I love that finding. Programs that fully utilize reporting and all of the functions consistently outperform those that are using surface-level features. This is something we heard again and again, that it is really having real-world, real-time results that are increasing performance. Efficiency compounds over time. Institutions fully aligned with the platform report earlier placements, reduced admin burden, and improved coordination. And, oh, by the way, use it more and more to do more and more. Fourth, faculty adoption follows good design. I was so pleased in the interviews to hear that faculty really have embraced it. What I know from working with faculty for twenty years in, you know, changing things to be more amenable to all the alternative student audiences is when faculty can see that something is actually going to make their lives easier, they love it. And this does make their lives easier. So I really like that. And finally, accreditation readiness is a daily practice. So much is. And we saw example after example after example of that in the interviews we did. Alright. So then just we wanted to put a few numbers here. These were qualitative interviews, folks. So it's not like we have all kinds of things like that fantastic survey that Alexis started out with. But here's the impact. Whether you need to do one or — you know, nobody's doing one placement — but whether you're doing a small number of placements to a huge number of placements, this is absolutely helping you do those faster and have more visibility into what all of those students that you've placed are doing at any given time. Seven of seven programs reported significant efficiency gains after centralizing their operations. There was just anecdote after anecdote that you will actually see in the report. And 100% of programs cited accreditation readiness as a key differentiator once they were fully involved on the CORE partnership platform. That's amazing. Thank you for sharing that. So we've talked a lot about the challenges, you know, what our clients are saying, the benefits of CORE. We just wanted to quickly highlight some of the features. What is actually available with CORE for nursing? So we were purposely built for clinical education, and we've outlined some of our features here. I'm not going to, you know, read each of these. I'll highlight a couple, and then I'm going to show you the details of our next webinar where we'll actually show you these features. So CORE for Nursing helps to streamline really anything related to clinical placements. And when I say that, I mean that. There are over thirty unique, you know, big bucket features and modules for our clinical component that do everything from managing preceptor sites, clinical faculty. We have Nursys integration. Of course, we're collecting evaluations, time sheets, all of that electronically through automated alerts. There are features for patient encounters, case logging, assessments, competency management, your curricular mapping. Really, when I say anything you can think of can be done within CORE, I could spend four hours, you know, giving you a product demo. Of course, we're not going to do that. But if I wanted to show you every feature, you know, I literally could spend four hours doing that. We do a lot. So that being said, you're going to see a poll on your screen. And we're just wondering what would be helpful for your program. Would you like to connect with an expert here at CORE by PeopleGrove so that you can have a one-on-one conversation and learn more how we can support your program? Would you prefer a follow-up email with some information? So I'm going to leave that up for a second, give you a chance to respond. We'll leave that up for about thirty more seconds. I really did love this quote. I'm so glad we put this in here because it really does summarize things well. And it — I mean, it's like we couldn't have asked for something better. "CORE for Nursing really created a system for tracking student requirements. And it is clear that far more customization" — here's exactly what I was saying — "And it is clear that far more customization than we have even done is possible in enabling — bringing even greater efficiencies to centralized processes." Exactly. Yep. Thank you for getting that quote. And to Scott's point earlier, if any of our clients are on the call, I can't see your names at the moment, but thank you so much, you know, for continuing to share your feedback. We really are, you know, so lucky to have so many amazing clients, and you help make us become better. So thank you for all that you do, you know, as partners for us as well. Okay. Just quickly, I've mentioned the first webinar in the series. If you missed that, you can watch the recording, and the link is here. So if you'd like that link emailed to you, let us know. You know, we can follow up by email. Or if you wanted to take a screenshot of this, you know, you can grab the URL. And then next week, on Tuesday, May 12th at 1 PM, we're going to do the actual product spotlight. So you'll be able to see everything that we talked about today that CORE can do for your program. You'll see some of that in action. I shouldn't say all of it. Like I said, we could spend four hours giving you a full demo. We're going to touch on some of the highlights. Okay. Well, that leads us to our Q&A session. So if — we'll give, again, we'll give thirty seconds or so. If you have a question, you can type it into the chat box. Okay. First question. Thank you. We're juggling four different systems right now for managing placements, compliance, evaluations, etc. For programs you talked to, what finally made them say "enough is enough," and why did they consolidate? Well, a couple of reasons. One, I'm sure you'll all love to hear, is usually with consolidation, there is some cost savings. Right? If you're paying for four different solutions, you know, and you can use one solution, there are certainly some cost savings. And then, really, the biggest benefit is just streamlining things for students, for faculty. It is so much easier for students to have one place to go. They know anything related to clinical, you know, I come into CORE, and, you know, I know how to find my time sheet. I know where to upload my immunization records or where to see if they're up to date and have expired. It just makes it so much more simple. We actually had one very large nursing school in California. They did a student satisfaction survey right before implementing CORE and then right after implementing CORE. And student satisfaction went from being in the high seventies, low eighties up into the nineties. You know, I think it was 92%. So just making things easier. This is a stressful time for students. The most stressful time usually is going on clinicals for the first time. So anything we can do to make it easier and more streamlined for students so that they're feeling more supported, there aren't any unknowns for them, you know, it certainly helps with student satisfaction. And then same, of course, for faculty administrators, just ease of use, having one place to go, one place to get the data, and then one vendor to call into. And having a client support manager who your team knows personally — we know you personally, we know your processes — you know, that's a big reason for vendor consolidation as well. You know? And one of the — I'm hearing one of your users tell me that even for them, it was an evolutionary process. It was an evolutionary process where they went from everything was done by hand to — and then in spreadsheets. And then they — you know, you can almost see this happening over the last decade. Then they found something that would handle one thing, a platform. And then they found another one that did something else. And it's just the natural evolution of how — again, exactly what I was talking about — how we have all become used to at-your-fingertips kind of thing. And so then it was, "Surely, there must be something out there that could do all of this for us." And it's capturing that audience, making sure that people know just how expansive it can be, how adapted to each individual institution — that I think was such a strong case for some of your users in coming to CORE. You know, not necessarily that, oh, just overnight, they made a decision to pursue it. Right. Exactly. We have two other questions that are actually very common questions we get from schools that are exploring CORE. So one is how to get undergrad to buy in and provide rotation information in the CORE system instead of just using Excel sheets. That's very common. Undergrad, they love their Excel sheets. And we know it's because their placement process or scheduling process might be a little bit different. We do have specific — what we're calling scheduling features for undergrad to try and make it easier for them. These have been launched, you know, over the past nine months or so. So, you know, they're fairly new. Your undergrad program maybe hasn't seen them yet, so we'd be happy to present it to them. But through integration even with your LMS — so for undergrad, many times, it's part of a clinical course that they're already enrolled in. So we can capture, you know, that information and integrate it into CORE ELMS to make that experience a little bit easier to schedule the students and so that, you know, you have that data instantly. You're not having to go into an Excel. If they're going out as cohorts, if they have a faculty coordinator instead of a, you know, preceptor, we can accommodate all of that. And then anything they're having to do while they're out on the rotation. If students have to submit evaluations, case logs, that's really where they're seeing the big benefit. So anything related to that clinical experience and the data that you're needing can be captured in a much more simple way. And then the next question, another very common question. Just add on to that? Oh, please. Yes. One of your users told me that — because, of course, it's being used by multiple program directors — that last element where you need students to submit something, the timeliness of them doing it, the richness of what they put into a dialogue — I don't even know what it is, but the richness of putting it into the dialogue box has so vastly improved that it has exponentially increased the efficacy of what they're doing. And I just had to say that because that to me was really interesting. So I'm sorry. Go on to your last one. Please. Thank you. We love that. Yeah. And then the next question: "Our state consortium uses a specific platform for requesting and assigning students to clinical placements. Would CORE complement this, or just be another platform we are using?" It would be a complement, and we'd have to meet one-on-one to find out, you know, what is that platform? How are you getting that data? How are you making those requests to see? Is that data we can easily ingest into the system? So I'd love to have a one-on-one conversation about, you know, your process specifically to learn more about the platform that you're using. But, you know, our goal is that it would be a complement. And, of course, CORE is for you and oversight of all of your students and all of your processes, you know, post that placement where you are having — you know, there's no way around that state consortium requirement. So we know that everything that comes after that would be managed in CORE, and then our hope is, you know, that we could easily get that data into CORE for you so that, you know, you're not having duplicate processes. But that's pretty common. I see another question there that just came in. Oops. That's — How are your schools tracking experiences at clinical sites to ensure students are being exposed to the required clinical competencies? That is a great question. So, of course, that is going to be tracked through patient encounters, through evaluations, through any clinical assignments within CORE. All of that can be mapped back at the competency or outcome level. And then we have the ability to report not only by student, but by clinical site. So, you know, over time, maybe over the semester, you're wanting to see what experiences did every student have, you know, at that particular site. Are there certain experiences that are missing? How can we get them, you know, exposed? Is it, you know, based on the setting, the demographics of that site? You'll have all of that data at your fingertips to be able to analyze. And we don't have a date on this yet, but no, we have a dedicated AI team. So we're going to have even more powerful reporting tools in the near future where, you know, you'll be able to really make a request to look into trends, and, you know, you'll easily be able to report on that. So rather than just our canned reports, you know, in the future, we will have, of course, AI tools. Hey. There's another question here. "This is so important. Love this research. Honest question, though. How painful is the switch to a centralized system? We're a small team, and we can't afford to add more work to everyone's plate right now." Great question. So, you know, of course, our goal is to make it as easy as possible for all of you. It really comes down to how is your data stored now, and can you easily access that data? If you can, that's typically the most painful part. Right? You're having to get your data to us. But once you do that, it's our team that's building the solution, configuring it, uploading your data. We're not asking you to do that. We're very hands-on. So we do the hard part. Really, you need to send us your existing data. We get it uploaded and built, and then we train you and your team on, you know, how to use your instance of CORE. So we try to make it as pain-free as possible. And like I said, the most difficult part is really getting your data over to us. Hopefully, that isn't too difficult, but, you know, we would work with you. Many solutions that we're seeing programs switch from, we have a lot of experience with. So, yeah, we know how to use the data. It's not even as if you're having to reorganize it. You really — you have to send us your existing reports, and we work with the format that you have. Oh, there's one more. Do we have time for one more? I think we have time for one more. Okay. "We're already losing preceptors to other programs in our area. Are any of the schools you studied using their tech setup as a way to make it easier for preceptors so they actually want to keep working with you instead of someone else?" Interesting. Yes. And even more simple than that, sometimes it's just that we're not communicating with the preceptors that we've used in the past. Or we don't have the oversight to be able to see — we have had all these preceptors tell us they're available to work with students. Are we actually using that availability from them? You know, if they're constantly telling you, "Yes, you know, we'll accept students," and then you're not placing students with them, you're probably going to see that they kind of drop off and aren't submitting that availability to you. So with CORE, you have instant oversight in that. You have the ability to easily communicate, stay in touch with those preceptors that have worked with your program in the past. So sometimes it's just as simple as, you know, consistent communication. And then other times, you know, preceptors are discouraged with other solutions or a lack of solution because they're literally having to figure out how to scan things and send them to the program. At CORE, we want to make things as simple as possible for preceptors so that you're not losing them because of lack of technology or because of difficult technology. Within CORE, anything that a preceptor has to do, it is automated through an email alert. They don't have to remember a username and password. They don't have to log in and go looking for things. They get that alert. They click a link. Of course, that alert is sent to the email that you've put on file for them. They get that link. They click it, and they can take whatever action they're needing to complete. So we keep it very simple for preceptors. That is one of our top priorities. It always has been. Like I said, our founder was a preceptor. So he really understood this, and it's always been a top priority for our company. But great question. Excellent. Well, time is up. We just made it. Yes. Yeah. No. Thank you all so much for your time today and for staying. I can see everyone stayed for the full hour. We really appreciate that. We know it's difficult to give up an hour of your day, so thank you for spending the hour with us. Scott, thank you for the amazing research and for all that you've done for this presentation, but for our company as a whole, and we wish you luck on your next adventure. Absolutely. So appreciate — I really enjoyed it, and it all meshes together. So have a great afternoon, everyone. Thank you, everyone.