School of Nursing faculty have decided that practice scholarship qualifies as a way to promotion and tenure. In February of 1997, they approved the following definition of faculty practice:
Faculty practice is the direct application of advanced nursing expertise to enhance health or reduce suffering, to diagnose and treat actual health problems, to promote wellness, or to design and manage health care systems. Faculty practice involves risk, responsibility, and accountability of the faculty member and the agency in which practice is conducted for outcomes of care, and involves a mutual exchange of resources. Faculty practice is consistent with the scholarly mission of the University and the School of Nursing in that it involves generation and testing of knowledge. Faculty practice demonstrates the reciprocity between teaching, research, service, and practice roles of faculty.
These are current faculty in practice:
Lindsay Allen
Jane Barlow
Tom Bush
Linda Brown
Roberta Dillon
Maureen Kelly
Ann O'Hale
Theresa Raphael-Grimm
Debbie Travers
Jenny Wagner
Julee Waldrop
Wanda Wazenegger
The Faculty Practice Guidelines are available as a MS Word document here.
