CON Faculty Workload Guidelines: Difference between revisions

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     <li>The work of the CON faculty will fulfill the educational mission aligned with existing resources.</li>

     <li>The CON supports all forms of scholarship: research, practice/service and teaching scholarship defined as: generating new knowledge, translating knowledge, and disseminating knowledge to the professional community and the public.</li>

     <li>Faculty effort is communicated in relation to percentage of FTE. The full-time equivalent (FTE) percentage makes work assignments comparable across various contexts. An FTE of 1.0 means that the person is a full-time faculty member, while an FTE of 0.5 signals that the faculty member is only half-time or that a particular assignment will require half time work.</li>

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====<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Faculty Role Preferences</span>====

<p style="margin-bottom:15px; max-width:70em !important;">Faculty role preferences are varied and depend on personal development goals (academic promotion and tenure or clinical promotion), rank and credentials, employment negotiations, and organizational needs. Faculty effort is inherently related to faculty preferences and areas of role productivity, and faculty effort guidelines, in general, are consistent with the concept of role preferences and productivity and those for promotion and tenure. There are three major roles: a) teaching intensive and/or teaching scholarship productive, b) research/scholarship productive, and c) practice/scholarship productive.</p>

====Scholarship====

<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Scholarship in nursing can be defined as those activities that systematically advance the teaching, research, and practice of nursing through rigorous inquiry that 1) is significant to the profession, 2) is creative, 3) can be documented, 4) can be replicated or elaborated, and 5) can be peer-reviewed through various methods. ([https://www.aacnnursing.org/News-Information/Position-Statements-White-Papers/Defining-Scholarship Edwards, J., Alichnie, C., Easley, C. E., Edwardson, S., Keating, S. B., & Stanley, J. (1999). Defining scholarship for the discipline of nursing. AACN White Paper.])</p>

<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Scholarship is highly valued by the College and University. Faculty shoulder the responsibility to seek and bring in funding to support their scholarship, and they receive investment time for scholarship with the expectation that they will become funded and/or disseminate teaching, research, and practice scholarship for this effort allocation. Tangible outcomes, such as funded grants and contracts and publications, are considered the return on investment. Faculty who do not engage in scholarship will have the FTE allocated to scholarship reassigned to teaching. The following are examples of scholarship in the areas of teaching, research, and practice. These are consistent with P &amp; T criteria.</p>

<p><em>Teaching</em></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">If faculty team teaches a course, the FTE increments and work units will be divided by the number of faculty in the course.</p>

<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Faculty may receive additional work units based on the following factors:</span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Examples of calculating faculty effort for different types of courses are presented on the attached grid.</p>

<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">FTE for face-to-face clinical supervision</span> (includes time spent in making assignments, pre- and post-conferences, evaluation, planning, etc.)</p>

<p style="max-width:70em !important;">FTE are assigned based on credit hours. Thus, a 3 credit hour direct clinical supervision course would receive 30% or .3 FTE. A single section is considered to be a group of 8-10 students. Simulations are considered direct clinical supervision courses.</p>

<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">FTE for Dedicated Education Unit supervision</span></p>

<p style="max-width:70em !important;">FTE’s are assigned at 10% per credit hour for DEU supervision.  As an example, a 3 credit clinical course would receive 30% faculty effort allocation for supervision of 14-16 students.</p>

<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">FTE for preceptored clinical supervision </span> (includes organizing, coordinating, mentoring, scheduling, evaluation, planning the clinical, and OSCEs):</p>

<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">FTE are assigned slightly less than face-to-face clinical supervision, with 3 credits of precepted clinical supervision equal to .10 FTE.  A clinical coordinator for a course with multiple sections may receive .10 FTE.</p>

<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">For APRN clinical credit assignments, faculty effort is calculated based on 6 students per clinical group. The faculty-student ratio will not normally exceed 1:6 for precepted clinical experiences, except in situations where faculty feel a slightly higher ratio is justified, such as for more advanced students where a 1:8 ratio might be considered.</p>

<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SERVICE EFFORT CALCULATIONS</span></p>

<p style="max-width:70em !important;">Faculty at the CON are expected to be involved in service-related activities that benefit the CON, UNMC, or the profession. Faculty members are allocated 10-20% effort for service. An exception to this policy is made for new Assistant Professors who are research productive.</p>

<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">PRACTICE WORKLOAD CALCULATIONS</span></p>

<p style="max-width:70em !important;">Practice is considered with professional service in the Promotion and Tenure Guidelines. The CON supports all types of faculty practice for purposes of teaching, maintaining credentialing and scholarship. The most desired models of practice are CON reimbursed practice, as this provides the opportunity for practice time to contribute to the resources of the CON and engages faculty fully in practices addressing the full range of reimbursement and billing issues.  A faculty practice of one day per week is allocated 20% time per semester.  If additional time is needed for documentation, on-call, or care coordination, that is included in the negotiations with the practice agency so the time is reimbursed.  Faculty have the privilege of engaging in outside work up to 16 hours per month according to the Board of Regents bylaws (Outside Employment Policy #1049).  Such work is outside the faculty effort allocation guidelines, but per university policy, it is expected that faculty members complete the Outside Employment Form and submit it to their supervisor.</p>