CON Standards for Promotion for Clinical Rank: Difference between revisions

<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">This document provides guiding principles to assist faculty in preparing their documents for advancement in clinical rank promotion (Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor). This is not a tenure leading track. The number of clinical faculty cannot exceed 40% of the total number of faculty. Included are areas of accomplishment that the committee uses in their process of reviewing the faculty documents and forming a recommendation to the Dean. The examples in this document are examples areas of evidence that the faculty will describe to demonstrate their accomplishments in their narratives. The committee anticipates that faculty members may have unique accomplishments to cite in their areas of evidence. </p>

<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Promotion in clinical rank is available for masters or doctorally prepared faculty members holding a Special Appointment. Those with a master’s degree in nursing and limited academic experience will start at the rank of Clinical Instructor; exceptions can be made for those with outstanding experience. The highest rank possible for the masters prepared individual is a Clinical Assistant Professor.  The highest rank possible for the doctoral prepared individual is a Clinical Professor.  </p>

<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">The College of Nursing (CON) Promotion & Tenure (P&amp;T) committee has developed these guidelines and tables of examples to assist faculty during the preparation of the application. Submission deadlines (section B below) must be met in order to apply for promotion. All CON P&amp;T materials can be found on the webpage https://www.unmc.edu/nursing/faculty/faculty-promotion-and-tenure.html. All applicants must follow Standards and Guidelines for Promotion for Clinical Rank (Appendix A2) and [[CON Promotion for Clinical Rank|policy 4.4.6 (2)]] for the preparation of the documents. Documents that do not follow all of the guidelines <span style="text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold;">will not be reviewed</span>.</p>

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     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">As a first step, faculty members should meet at least annually with their Assistant Dean/Supervisor to discuss expectations and accomplishments (teaching, scholarly activities, clinical practice [if applicable], professional service) for each area under review.</li>

     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The most important of the required documents are the Personal Narrative and the Curriculum Vitae (CV). The personal narrative describes your accomplishments in the three areas of teaching, scholarly activity, and professional service.</li>

     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">As a starting point, faculty should review these Guidelines for the College of Nursing. Included in these guidelines are Examples of Activities related to each of the areas of emphasis organized into levels of expanding scope of accomplishments to be included in your personal narrative.</li>

     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">It would be expected that each faculty identifies a promotion goal to be discussed at the annual evaluation. A summary of progress toward promotion across the years since last appointment be provided and reviewed with the Division Assistant Dean/Supervisor on an annual basis. It is recognized that circumstances may make change in professional emphasis necessary.</li>

     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">You may want to identify someone who can provide guidance or help with the promotion process. Contact the Promotion and Tenure Committee Chair.</li>

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<li>Has an educational and clinical background that uses content knowledge and skills for effective classroom and clinical teaching</li>

<li>Develops positive relationships with clinical sites.</li>

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<li>Integrates clinical expertise and practice into all levels of education.</li>

<li>Develops new learning opportunities/sites for students at the local level.</li>

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<li>Recognized as a national leader and expert clinical teacher in the clinical learning environment or curricula.</li>

<li>Leads programs or projects related to critical thinking and evidence-based practice at the national level</li>

<li>Leads development, evaluation, revision, and benchmarking of clinical learning environment or curricula at the national level</li>

<li>Participates in clinical practice improvement or clinical teaching projects  </li>

<li>Implements clinical guidelines or best practices.</li>

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<li>Demonstrates expertise and accomplishments in a focused area of clinical scholarship at the local level</li>

<li>Engaged in academic practice partnership in local community.</li>

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<li>Develops innovative academic-practice partnership that includes documentation of the impact of the partnerships on both the education and practice missions.</li>

<li>Demonstrates expertise and accomplishments in a focused area of clinical scholarship at the regional level</li>

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<li>Sustains program of scholarship in a focused clinical practice, policy, or clinical teaching area with a specific clinical population</li>

<li>Leads development of clinical guidelines at the national level</li>

<li>Disseminates examples of successful academic-practice partnerships to national audiences.</li>

<li>Demonstrates expertise and accomplishments in a focused area of clinical scholarship at the national level</li>

<li>Provides federal or other national testimony related to clinical practice issues.</li>

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<li>Participates on clinical committees at the local level.</li>

<li>Contributes actively on CON and UNMC committees and task forces</li>

<li>Receives recognition for professional service/practice at the Local/state level</li>

<li>Implements and evaluates evidence-based practice/quality improvement at the local level</li>

<li>Actively engaged in system-level activities with the clinical partner</li>

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