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<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Honors and teaching awards (e.g. UNMC Interprofessioinal Educational Academy of Educators)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Honors and teaching awards (e.g. UNMC Interprofessioinal Educational Academy of Educators)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Note: Information for developing a teaching portfolio is available and detailed on the UNMC Academic Services website: http://www.unmc.edu/academicservices. A teaching portfolio is intended to help with documenting teaching activities that can be helpful for annual evaluations and in the development of the two-page narrative on teaching activities for Promotion and Tenure Committee review.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Note: Information for developing a teaching portfolio is available and detailed on the UNMC Academic Services website: http://www.unmc.edu/academicservices. A teaching portfolio is intended to help with documenting teaching activities that can be helpful for annual evaluations and in the development of the two-page narrative on teaching activities for Promotion and Tenure Committee review.</p>
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<ol style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;"><li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Identify courses taught for at least the last two years
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<li>Describe your responsibility for the course</li>
<li>Identify any innovative strategies to deliver the course, consider CON mandates to incorporate specific strategies—remember the application will be read by others outside of the CON and contributions must be described specifically for them to grasp the significance</li>
<li>Be concise.</li>
<li>If appropriate, include student comments regarding the revisions/new strategies.</li>
<li>Student evaluations for your teaching in the classroom and/or clinical area. Include a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">summary</span> of evaluations stating the range of scores on the specific rating scale; do not include the print outs. Include a sample of student comments from evaluations—representative but not excessive, select statements that describe the quality of teaching.</li>
<li>If there are some areas that the student evaluations identify as areas for improvement, state how you are trying to change these categories.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Course coordinator role.
<ul>
<li>Describe responsibility in terms of class size, use of Blackboard, distance students.</li>
<li>If undergraduate course, discuss involvement with other divisions</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Research supervisor for MSN and/or Ph.D. students (include number and activities)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Clinical instruction
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<li>Describe number of students in clinical setting, type of patients, innovative strategies used in the clinical area for assisting the students to gain skills and critical thinking</li>
<li>If you must provide experiences when patient availability is limited, describe what strategies or alternative experiences are used—e.g. simulation and if available student evaluation of this experience.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Continuing Education
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<li>If you provide continuing education for your specialty area or write continuing education activities for a journal, include this as teaching.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Teaching Portfolio (optional) See UNMC Guidelines<br />
Faculty who have a major teaching role are encouraged to develop a more extensive Teaching Portfolio which can be used to help develop the teaching narrative.  In addition, faculty may want to consider including their Teaching Portfolio as a supplement for review by the P&T Review Committee separate from the required documentation.<br /><br />Information for developing a teaching portfolio is available and detailed on the UNMC Academic Services website:  http://www.unmc.edu/academicservices</li>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold; max-width:70em !important;">Scholarly  Activity</span> is not limited to only basic or clinical research achievements but reflects the applicant’s contributions to the profession. Nursing scholarship is defined by the AACN as “the generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of knowledge that aims to improve health and transform health care” (AACN 2018) http://www.aacn.nche.edu/publications/position/defining-scholarship.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold; max-width:70em !important;">Scholarly  Activity</span> is not limited to only basic or clinical research achievements but reflects the applicant’s contributions to the profession. Nursing scholarship is defined by the AACN as “the generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of knowledge that aims to improve health and transform health care” (AACN 2018) http://www.aacn.nche.edu/publications/position/defining-scholarship.</p>
<p style="max-width:70em !important;">Grants should demonstrate the sustained growth from “seed” to small intramural to extramural funding. Include your role/contribution to each grant. Outcomes or publications are expected to be generated from grants and are the supportive evidence of the scholarly activity accomplishments. Grants that have been submitted but not funded may be included to show the early development and discuss the changes based on the grant evaluation comments. </p>
<p style="max-width:70em !important;">Grants should demonstrate the sustained growth from “seed” to small intramural to extramural funding. Include your role/contribution to each grant. Outcomes or publications are expected to be generated from grants and are the supportive evidence of the scholarly activity accomplishments. Grants that have been submitted but not funded may be included to show the early development and discuss the changes based on the grant evaluation comments. </p>
<p style="max-width:70em !important;">Presentations (paper or posters) may be an intermediate step for dissemination of findings but published articles with you as first author are preferable.</p>
<p style="max-width:70em !important;">Presentations (paper or posters) may be an intermediate step for dissemination of findings but published articles with you as first author are preferable.</p>
<p style="max-width:70em !important;">If your focus of scholarly activity has changed—describe this but try to demonstrate how one area lead to the next area or what you are contributing to the next area based on expertise (e.g. computer technology for data collection may have been expanded in a second project to include intervention delivery). Making connections between different projects will support “a sustained” or “outstanding” record.</p>
<p style="max-width:70em !important;">If your focus of scholarly activity has changed—describe this but try to demonstrate how one area lead to the next area or what you are contributing to the next area based on expertise (e.g. computer technology for data collection may have been expanded in a second project to include intervention delivery). Making connections between different projects will support “a sustained” or “outstanding” record.</p>
<p style="max-width:70em !important;">Scholarly activities can be connected with a professional organization in terms of development or revisions of practice guidelines or organizing symposiums/conferences.</p>
<p style="max-width:70em !important;">Scholarly activities can be connected with a professional organization in terms of development or revisions of practice guidelines or organizing symposiums/conferences.</p>
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<p style="max-width:70em !important;"><span style="text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold;">Professional Service</span> includes service to the CON, the University, and professional organizations. Additionally, individuals who engage in practice as part of their professional service will provide a description.<br />Begin with service to the CON:</p>
<p style="max-width:70em !important;"><span style="text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold;">Professional Service</span> includes service to the CON, the University, and professional organizations.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:15px; max-width:70em !important;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;>CON:</span> Description of committee functions and your specific role, scholarly outcomes from committee work or impact on the organization. Appointments to a task force or Ad Hoc committees are included and describe the outcome from the committee in relation to the CON’s mission/vision and to University as a whole.</p>
<li style="margin-left:2em;">Committees that you were elected to and if you were elected chairman.</li>
<p style="margin-bottom:15px; max-width:70em !important;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">University Medical Center/the Nebraska Medical Center Hospital/University of Nebraska:</span> Identify the committee, contribution you made as a member or leader of the committee, and any specific outcome that was a important to any of the listed entities. It may be appropriate to connect the committee to strategic plan objective or new enterprise development</p>
<li style="margin-left:2em;">Describe the contributions or purpose of the committee to the CON. As a member of the committee did you lead a task force or ad hoc committee to accomplish a specific task—describe this activity and significance to the CON.</li>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline; max-width:70em !important;">State of Nebraska:</span> Identify the committee, the contribution you made as a member or leader of the committee, and any specific outcome that was important to any of the listed entities. Include the significance of the committee’s function to the citizens of Nebraska.</p>
<li style="margin-left:2em;">Please do not list divisions and GFO as a committee. Elected  division representatives can include FCC and any specific responsibility on FCC.</li>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;max-width:70em !important;">Professional Organization:</span> Local, state, regional and national professional organization (appointed or elected)  service is important to demonstrate sustained or outstanding contributions to the organization.  Describe the significance of the committee to the organization and any recognition associated with the committee’s participation. </p>
<li style="margin-left:2em;">Appointments to a task force or Ad Hoc committees are included and describe the outcome from the committee in relation to the CON’s mission/vision and to University as a whole.</li>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline; max-width:70em !important;">Practice:</span> Individuals who engage in practice as part of their professional service will provide a description of  exemplary contributions. Describe your practice include population served, role, and members of the team providing service (interdisciplinary). Describe any consultations and/or program development that exemplifies contributions to patient care focused programs for a targeted population. </p>
</ul>
 
<p style="margin-bottom:15px; max-width:70em !important;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">University Medical Center/the Nebraska Medical Center Hospital/University of Nebraska</span><br />Identify the committee, contribution you made as a member or leader of the committee, and any specific outcome that was a important to any of the listed entities. It may be appropriate to connect the committee to strategic plan objective or new enterprise development</p>


<p><span style="text-decoration:underline; max-width:70em !important;">State of Nebraska</span></p>
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<li style="margin-left:2em;">Identify the committee, the contribution you made as a member or leader of the committee, and any specific outcome that was important to any of the listed entities. Include the significance of the committee’s function to the citizens of Nebraska.</li>
</ul>


<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;max-width:70em !important;">Professional Organization</span></p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:15px; max-width:70em !important;">
<li style="margin-left:2em;">Local, state, and national professional organization work is important service. The service to the organization needs to progress from local to state to national levels to demonstrate sustained or outstanding contributions to the organization. </li>
<li style="margin-left:2em;">Multiple memberships in professional organizations and different levels of participation can occur.</li>
<li style="margin-left:2em;">If you volunteer for,  or are appointed to committees for an organization, describe the significance of the committee to the organization and any recognition associated with the committee’s participation.</li>
</ul>


<p><span style="text-decoration:underline; max-width:70em !important;">Practice</span></p>
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<li style="margin-left:2em;">Describe your practice include population served, role, and members of the team providing service (interdisciplinary). </li>
<li style="margin-left:2em;">Certifications and requirement to maintain certifications. </li>
<li style="margin-left:2em;">A leadership role with the team/clinic and accomplishments associated with this task (e.g. new service line for cessation of smoking).</li>
<li style="margin-left:2em;">Leadership role regarding practice regulations.</li>
<li style="margin-left:2em;">Consultation Activity. </li>
</ul>


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