College of Nursing Faculty Test Review Committee Policy

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2. Health Sciences Policies
3. Current Page: Policy 8-100: Academy of Utah Higher of Nursing Faculty Exercise Organization Faculty Exercise Plan

1. Purpose & Scope:
   1. The University of Utah College of Nursing Faculty Practice Organisation (CoNFPO) has been created to back up the patient care, research/scholarship, instruction, and service/clinical missions of the College of Nursing and its kinesthesia. The CoNFPO will promote and raise faculty progress through the identification and development of inquiry opportunities, high quality, toll-effective patient care delivery systems, and educational products and services. Students will have opportunities to integrate knowledge and skills in a clinical setting under faculty supervision. The CoNFPO will encourage and facilitate participation in a competitive health care marketplace by pursuing and developing healthcare contracts and networks, fulfill and expand the missions of the Wellness Sciences Middle and benefit the health of the citizens of the Intermountain Westward.
   2. The CoNFPO'south success requires a strategic programme with clear and accessible long-term goals. Our unique community of faculty scholars believes the CoN should maintain a vital presence and provide leadership in regional and national nursing care. The CoNFPO promotes the evolution and provision of diverse clinical services, educational and enquiry developments, and an integrated assortment of opportunities with a multifariousness of academy and community partners.
   3. The evolution and expansion of our faculty practice nursing services will continue to provide educational resources to meet the need for future nurses for this region and provide research opportunities for nursing scholars. Expansion of CoNFPO services may occur through the creation of clinics, contracts and networking inside the existing community.
   4. The CoNFPO will qualify, encourage, and expedite efficient marketing and contracting for faculty services. Under the management of the Dean for the Higher of Nursing a Faculty Do Quango (FPC) will exist formed within the Faculty Practise System and empowered to act with bounden say-so in the creation or counterfoil of contracts on behalf of its CON faculty members. The CoNFPO will respond expeditiously to new contracting opportunities in the local and regional health care manufacture, with total cognizance of all the competitive risk and legal constraints involved.
2. Definitions:
   1. For the purposes of this policy, these words and phrases take the post-obit meanings:
1. Members of the CoNFPO are those CON kinesthesia who provide direct or indirect professional services to clients (eastward.g, individuals, families, groups, communities) equally role of their faculty office. The services of the CoNFPO members are reimbursed past self-pay, third party insurance, contracts, grants or gifts. The do plan does not include consultation activities as divers in E and F (No.2-26) in the University of Utah Policies and Procedures Manual.
2. Faculty Practice Council: The quango formed to acquit the business of the Faculty Exercise Organization.
3. Clinical Income: Net clinical income is defined as gross collections less customer refunds and expenses. All revenue derived from the clinical activities of faculty members covered past this Plan shall be distributed in accordance with the provisions of this Plan. Except as otherwise provided in this Program, this Plan includes whatsoever and all revenues derived from professional services rendered to clients.
4. The salary of faculty members may have ii components: academic bacon and incentive salary. Total salary is the sum of these two components. The Dean will set the level of each component for each faculty member annually based on consultation with Segmentation Chair and the faculty members. Salary may be paid from whatever source available to the College including but not limited to clinical income, funds from health care facilities, and income from inquiry or training grants, awards, contracts, state funds, etc.
   1. Academic salary is set annually and reflects academic rank and
      clinical feel. Academic salary is the only bacon component which is associated with tenure or other forms of bacon guarantees.
   2. Negotiated incentive bacon volition exist gear up by the Dean at the kickoff of each fiscal year and a year-end review of amounts paid may exist conducted, if advisable. All accounts and funds used to pay faculty member salaries are subject field to regular review and audit by designated entities as accounted necessary.
   3. Incentive bacon shall exist set pursuant to College Practice Plan
      guidelines. Incentive salary may reflect clinical, research/scholarship, teaching or administrative productivity. Incentive bacon is discretionary, is non guaranteed, and is not associated with tenure.
5. Clinical Income Accounts (CIAs) are vehicles for deposit of receipts for client services related to nurse faculty clinical practise and for disbursement of that nurse faculty clinical income in accordance with the guidelines.
3. Policy:
   1. Inaugural Process: Implementation or revision of the Kinesthesia Practice Plan requires approval past a majority vote of the College Quango, review by Academy General counsel, blessing past the Dean for the CON, the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, the President of the University, and the Board of Trustees.
   2. Organisation and Structure of the Faculty Exercise Council and Faculty Practice Organization:
   3. Definition and Membership
      1. Members of the CoNFPO are those CON faculty who provide direct or indirect professional person services to clients (eastward.thou, individuals, families, groups, communities) as part of their faculty role. The services of the CoNFPO members are reimbursed by self-pay, tertiary party insurance, contracts, grants or gifts. The practice plan does not include consultation activities as defined in E and F (No.2-26) in the University of Utah Policies and Procedures Manual.
      2. It is recognized that dissimilar categories of faculty exist within the CON including, but not limited to, total-time and function-fourth dimension tenure and clinical tracks, offshoot, enquiry, limited term, and bookish teaching staff. The principles stated in this Programme apply to the percentage of total-time equivalence date as designated by the Dean and equally annually determined regarding individual participation in the programme.
      3. A faculty member interested in participating in faculty practise is to discuss this selection with his/her Programme Director, Division Chair and administrator responsible for clinical practices.
      4. Pending mutual agreement, the faculty member may exist assigned to a currently existing practice or work with the FPC to develop a new practice plan.
      5. The members of the CoNFPO approve the Faculty Practice Plan and see at least annually to review the recommendations of the Faculty Practise Council.
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         2. [Note: Parts Iv-Vii of this Regulation (and all other University Regulations) are Regulations Resources Information – the contents of which are not approved by the Bookish Senate or Lath of Trustees, and are to be updated from fourth dimension to time equally adamant appropriate by the cognizant Policy Officer and the Institutional Policy Commission, as per Policy 1-001 and Rule 1-001.]
4. Rules, Procedures, Guidelines, Forms, and other related resource.
   1. Rules: Faculty Exercise Council
      1. A Faculty Practice Quango (FPC) will be formed to comport the concern of the Faculty Practice Organization.
         1. Membership: The FPC shall exist comprised of one representative from each kinesthesia do every bit determined by the members of the respective faculty practice groups. For practices with up to five practitioners at that place shall be ane representative; for practices greater than five practitioners there shall be ii representatives.
         2. Chairperson: Elected from the membership of the FPC for a term of 2 years offset with an even numbered year.
         3. Secretarial assistant: Elected from the membership of the FPC for a term of two years beginning with an odd numbered year.
         4. Guests: From fourth dimension to time the FPC will invite consultants and guests including students to participate in discussion but not vote.
         5. Ex-Officio Fellow member: College of Nursing administrator responsible for clinical affairs.
      2. Responsibilities of the Faculty Practice Council.
         1. Meet at least quarterly to evaluate opportunities for the showtime up of new practices; discuss problems related to the maintenance of existing practices; and make decisions regarding the closure of practices.
         2. Develop service contracts with agencies in consultation with the administrator responsible for clinical practices and Assistant Dean for Finance.
         3. Develop criteria to evaluate the service of the faculty practices in meeting the missions of the CON.
         4. Set CoNFPO general priorities and strategies for budgeting; review variances at to the lowest degree quarterly; and recommend allocation of resources to the Dean.
         5. Assure a continuous quality improvement approach is utilized past the kinesthesia practices.
         6. Assure that faculty practice, conducted as part of faculty workload, is considered for merit and retention, promotion and tenure procedures.
   2. Procedures: Participation in the Faculty Practice Arrangement
      1. A kinesthesia member interested in participating in faculty practice is to discuss this option with her/his Program Director, Partitioning Chair and the administrator responsible for clinical practices .
      2. Pending mutual agreement, the faculty fellow member may be assigned to a currently existing do or piece of work with the FPC to develop a new exercise program/site.
      3. Contracts with agencies volition be developed jointly by the faculty, Assistant Dean for Finance of the CON, ambassador responsible for clinical practices and the Dean.
      4. Faculty exercise conducted as part of kinesthesia workload will have implications for merit and retention, promotion and tenure decisions.
   3. Guidelines:
      1. Purpose and Goals of the Faculty Practise Plan
      2. The purpose of the CoNFPO Practice Plan is to provide guidelines for the distribution of clinical revenues. The Plan will:
   1. Support the clinical practices of the CoNFPO
   2. Define the criteria for clinical practice revenue distribution within the CON
   3. Clinical Income
      1. Internet clinical income is divers equally gross collections less client refunds and expenses. All revenue derived from the clinical activities of faculty members covered by this Program shall exist distributed in accordance with the provisions of this Programme. Except every bit otherwise provided in this Plan, this Plan includes any and all revenues derived from professional services rendered to clients.
      2. All professional billing and collections for clinical activities covered past this Plan must be made through a billing system approved by the Dean and the University Vice President for Administrative Services. Subject area to the provisions of this Plan, net clinical revenues shall be distributed to the program surface area/exercise group which generate them. If the employment of a faculty member terminates, all charges for clinical services rendered prior to the engagement of separation must be processed through the canonical billing organization. Except as otherwise agreed in writing betwixt a kinesthesia member and Dean, collections for clinical services rendered prior to separation of a faculty member are the property of the Higher of Nursing.
      3. This Plan does not cover:
         1. Honoraria for lectures, visiting professorships, publications of articles and other forms of presentations and scientific or other personal awards.
         2. Royalties from publications.
         3. Legal consultations.
         4. Fees for participation on national peer review committees or site visits.
         5. Clinical income earned during vacation away from the University, provided that the holiday fourth dimension is approved in accelerate and recorded with the department.
         6. Except as otherwise directed by the Division Chair or Dean, industrial consultations non involving direct client care subject field to the University policy on outside consulting
         7. Income from technology licensing.
   4. Salary
      1. The bacon of kinesthesia members may have ii components: academic salary and incentive bacon . Total salary is the sum of these two components. The Dean will gear up the level of each component for each kinesthesia member annually based on consultation with Sectionalization Chair and the kinesthesia members. Salary may be paid from any source available to the Higher including but not limited to clinical income, funds from health care facilities, and income from inquiry or training grants, awards, contracts, state funds, etc.
      2. Academic salary is ready annually and reflects academic rank and clinical experience. Academic bacon is the simply salary component which is associated with tenure or other forms of bacon guarantees.
      3. Negotiated incentive salary volition be ready by the Dean at the beginning of each fiscal twelvemonth and a year-end review of amounts paid may be conducted, if appropriate. All accounts and funds used to pay faculty member salaries are subject to regular review and audit past designated entities every bit deemed necessary.
      4. Incentive salary shall be set pursuant to Higher Practice Plan guidelines. Incentive salary may reflect clinical, research/scholarship, teaching or administrative productivity. Incentive bacon is discretionary, is not guaranteed, and is non associated with tenure.
      5. The Dean, annually with the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, shall review total salary amounts to encourage national salary competitiveness, compliance with this Plan, and overall consistency with the College of Nursing'south mission.
      6. For purposes of this Plan, and subject to advance determination by the College, Veterans Assistants Hospital salaries paid to faculty members covered by this Plan shall be treated as academic bacon component.
      7. With the exception of (F), all salary payments shall exist fabricated through the Academy payroll system with advisable deductions for Federal, State, and Social Security taxes. Academic bacon shall be paid co-ordinate to the University payment schedule and shall constitute the benefits base on which University benefits volition be paid. Faculty practice incentive salary shall be paid pursuant to College guidelines. No University benefits volition be paid on faculty practice incentive salary.
   5. Assessments
      1. Assessments apply only to net clinical income.
      2. Annually each practice entity will pay to the Dean'due south Office an amount equal to ten percent of internet clinical income (gross collections less refunds) (See Section IIIA).
      3. Annually each practise entity will pay an assessment of 10 percentage to a faculty incentive pool.
      4. Annually each exercise entity volition pay an cess of 10 percent to the program area/practice group.
      5. The remaining 70 pct of net clinical income will be distributed to the program area/do group/individual faculty as incentive. This income may be used for kinesthesia incentive payments and/or for futurity practice developments as necessary to support the education and research missions .
   6. Clinical Income Accounts
      1. Clinical Income Accounts (CIAs) are vehicles for eolith of receipts for client services related to nurse faculty clinical practice and for disbursement of that nurse kinesthesia clinical income in accordance with the guidelines equally further defined in this section. Clinical Income Accounts are designed to facilitate and expedite deposit of client revenues, to refund customer overpayments, and to place and lead to the distribution of clinical practice income to individual faculty of the College associated with a item Clinical Income Account.
      2. Nurse kinesthesia clinical practise income generated by individual faculty shall be deposited to a Clinical Income Account. Payment to private faculty volition exist made from the appropriate Academy accounts based on distribution calculations made by the College. The University Payroll Department shall process such payments to individual faculty with appropriate deductions for benefits and payroll taxes in accordance with this Programme, applicative policies and laws with all income to be reported on W-2 forms. The Academy Payroll Section shall be cognizant of maximum calendar year contribution limitations of FICA, FlCA-Medicare and retirement programs such as TIAA-CREF, or Utah State Retirement on an private basis.
      3. Disbursement from the Clinical Income Account may include reimbursements to clients or insurance carriers for overpayments or refunds or transfer to University-based accounts. Disbursements from specific Clinical Income Accounts may be made past authorized individuals as designated by the Dean or Segmentation Chair.
      4. Clinical Income Accounts will exist established and maintained through University bookkeeping systems or University approved accounting systems at no additional expense to the College. University accounts designated equally Clinical Income Accounts and assigned to the various Dean, incentive, or program area/do group accounts shall be interest bearing with earned interest transferred to appropriate accounts on a monthly ground.
      5. Clinical Income Accounts will be reviewed during an almanac audit conducted by the Dean's Office of the College of Nursing and through other University related audits as accounted necessary. All accounts and funds used to pay faculty member salaries currently originate and are controlled in the Dean's Office and are reviewed and reported regularly to advisable individuals and audited past other University auditors every bit deemed necessary. At the fourth dimension the College is organized into departments having responsibility for their own accounts, all accounts and funds used to pay faculty member salaries will be bailiwick to regular review and audit conducted by the Dean's Function of the Higher of Nursing and through other University-related audits as deemed necessary.
   7. The following expenses may be paid from Clinical Income Accounts provided they are approved by the Division Chair and Dean and supported past appropriate invoices.
      1. Clinical operating expenses:
         1. Annual city, county and land business licenses.
         2. Federal and country narcotic licenses (if the individual practices solely inside the university system).
         3. Salaries, wages, and fringe benefits.
         4. Office rents, supplies, and equipment related to and necessary for the practice.
         5. Billing expenses.
         6. Marketing expenses.
         7. Other operating expenses.
      2. Professional expenses:
         1. Malpractice insurance.
         2. Membership and dues in academic and professional societies.
         3. Travel and other allowable expenses to scientific meetings.
         4. Supplemental support for educational or sabbatical exit.
         5. Buy of books, pamphlets and journals, if such publications are readily available for use by whatsoever and all members of the Higher or Division including students.
         6. Expenditures necessary for educational and inquiry programs.
         7. Expenses involved in board certification and recertification.
         8. Recruitment and relocation expenses for new faculty members.
         9. College and/or program area assessments.
      3. Non-allowable expenses:
         1. Membership and/or dues in social clubs.
         2. Special assessment by any or all nursing specialty or subspecialty societies related to political activeness or charitable expenses.
         3. Expenses associated with initial state nursing licensure, including exam fees and reciprocity fees.
         4. Expenditure for personal apply or purposes other than those that benefit the Academy in accord with University policies and procedures for expenditures.
         5. Equipment purchases from Clinical Income Accounts are returned to the Higher of Nursing at the termination of employment.
   8. Boosted Items
      1. Full-fourth dimension faculty at affiliated private health care agencies are obligated to abide past the understanding betwixt the Higher of Nursing and the particular hospital.
      2. Total-fourth dimension Salt Lake City Veterans Administration Health Care System (SLCVAS) nurses, including research associates and clinical investigators, may not perform consultations or give continuing intendance to the University Hospital clients for remuneration nor may clients be billed for their services no affair where the income goes unless approved in writing by the Dean and the (SLCVAS) Director in compliance with the (SLCVAS) regulations.
      3. Total-time and function-time Veterans Administration Hospital nurses, including research associates and clinical investigators, may receive professional person expenses from a University business relationship if, and just if, such benefits are allowable under both University (Section 3-half-dozen) and Veterans Administration Hospital regulations (VAH circular 00-72-22, dated vi-three-70).
      4. These regulations shall become effective July one, 2003 and are subject to annual review and revision by bulk vote of all College kinesthesia and the Dean with approval past the Board of Trustees as necessary. Credence of and compliance with these regulations shall be a condition of employment.
      5. A copy, with written confirmation of receipt, shall be supplied to every faculty fellow member described in Section II, Membership.
      6. Effective communications is considered essential to the success of the FPO. Faculty will receive regular reports and minutes of the FPC meetings volition exist distributed to divisions.
   4. Forms [reserved]
   5. Other related resource materials. [reserved]
5. References:
6. Contacts:
   1. The designated contact officials for this Policy are:
      1. Policy Owner (primary contact person for questions and communication):Executive Director of Faculty Practise in the Higher of Nursing.
      2. Policy Officers:  Sr. Vice President for Wellness Sciences.
         1. These officials are designated by the University President or delegee, with assistance of the Institutional Policy Committee, to accept the following roles and authority, as provided in University Rule 1-001:
         2. "A 'Policy Officer' will exist assigned past the President for each University Policy, and will typically be someone at the executive level of the University (i.due east., the President and his/her Cabinet Officers). The assigned Policy Officer is authorized to let exceptions to the Policy in advisable cases.... "
         3. "The Policy Officer will identify an 'Owner' for each Policy. The Policy Possessor is an adept on the Policy topic who may reply to questions most, and provide interpretation of the Policy; and will typically exist someone reporting to an executive level position (equally defined above), but may be any other person to whom the President or a Vice President has delegated such potency for a specified area of University operations. The Owner has primary responsibility for maintaining the relevant portions of the Regulations Library... .[and] bears the responsibility for determining -requirements of particular Policies... ." University Rule 1-001-III-B & E
7. History:
   1. Renumbering: Renumbered as Policy half-dozen-001 effective ix/15/2008, formerly known as PPM 2-26.2
   2. Reformatting: Reformatted to Regulations template, vii/28/09
   3. Revision History:
      1. Current version: Revision 2 (constructive engagement, February 27, 2004)
         1. Editorially revised by Legal Counsel 7/03
         2. Approved by Higher Council, 2/27/04
      2. Earlier versions
         1. Revision one: effective dates, July 13, 1998 to February 26, 2004
         2. Revision 0: effective dates, January 3, 1995 to July 12, 1998

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