title: Scholarly productivity for nursing clinical track faculty.
abstract: Recent years have yielded substantial advancement by clinical track faculty in cohort expansion and collective contributions to the discipline of nursing. As a result, standards for progression and promotion for clinical faculty need to be more fully developed, articulated, and disseminated. Our school formed a task force to examine benchmarks for the progression and promotion of clinical faculty across schools of nursing, with the goal of guiding faculty, reviewers, and decision makers about what constitutes excellence in scholarly productivity. Results from analyses of curriculum vitae of clinical professors or associate professors at six universities with high research activity revealed a variety of productivity among clinical track members, which included notable diversity in the types of scholarly products. Findings from this project help quantify types of scholarship for clinical faculty at the time of promotion. This work provides a springboard for greater understanding of the contributions of clinical track faculty to nursing practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI. Electronic address: djvs@umich.edu.
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tschannen
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI; Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Strobbe
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bay
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: April
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bigelow
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: Chin Hwa Gina Y
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Dahlem
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: Ann K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Gosselin
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pollard
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: Julia S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Seng
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D058028:Research Report; D014481:United States
keywords: Clinical track faculty; Productivity; Professorial track; Promotion; Scholarship