6.11 Career Legacy Portfolio Toolkit
6.11.2 Professional Profile: Biographical Sketch
A biographical sketch would incorporate the advanced practice nursing practitioner or advanced practice nursing practitioner aspirant or scholar’s achievements in the relevant area of scholarly activity, i.e., practice, research, integration, teaching and engagement
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Reflect and Complete Each of the Five Principles that Govern Advanced Practice (Nursing):
A narrative reflecting an exemplar case can be detailed with informed consent from the patient excluding any identifying details that can be traced to the case or a hypothetical case that enacts the Standards of Conduct pertinent to each of the five principles as set out in the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics (NMBI 2014) that align with patient safety and underpin the professional role of the advanced practice nursing practitioner/aspirant:
Principle 1: Respect for the Dignity of the Person
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Principle 2: Professional Responsibility and Accountability
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Principle 3: Quality of Practice
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Principle 4: Trust and Confidentiality
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Principle 5: Collaboration with Others
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____________________________________________________ (NMBI 2014) Document your credentials (assets) in chronological order pertinent to the individual overlapping, yet interdependent dimensions of scholarship
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Scholarship of teaching
Scholarship of integration
Scholarship applicationof Scholarship
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Scholarship of engagement Fig. 6.3 Dimensions of
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Identify potential pathways for expansion in the context of your credentials (assets) pertinent to each of the dimensions of scholarship
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How will the philosophy influenced by your epistemology (methodology) and ontological (truth claim) understandings of the world impact on your career legacy map, scholarship and individual recipients of the health services and their health and wellbeing?
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Steps: Creation of Career Legacy Map Step 1: Tentative Declared Legacy
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Step 2: Creation of Career Legacy Map
Develop a table (Table 6.1) to display and document all components of past activities related to practice, research, teaching, engagement and scholarship
Questions for consideration to populate Box A (Step 1)
1. What do you want to be better at in – nursing/midwifery /speciality area pertinent to [discovery, teaching, engagement, application, integration]
2. What motivates you?
because of you and your efforts?
3. What is your passion?
4. What is your focus in order to develop the program of practice, research, teaching and engagement?
5. What would you like best to be known for by others in your discipline?
6. What lasting impact do you want to leave in your speciality area pertinent to the scholarship of [discovery, teaching, engagement, application, integration]?
7. What do you see in need of improving in your speciality area towards the achievement in the scholarship of [discovery, teaching, engagement, application, integration]?
Start to populate Box A Write a declared legacy statement /
destination statement:
Scholarship of discovery/teaching/
engagement/application/integration
Fig. 6.4 Populate Step 1—Box A-declared legacy
Table 6.1 Past activities
Past activities
completed Dates Title
Population/
problem/
purpose
Interventions/
methods
Characteristics study design/
comparator Outcomes
Funding sources Practice
Research Teaching Engagement Scholarship Publications Other/media venue
Analyse the gaps in the science and policy context to inform the next series of proposed activities to advance towards the intended declared legacy/destination statement
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Step 3: Knowledge of the Policy Context to Guide the Development of the Declared Legacy/Destination Statement
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Questions for consideration to populate content for Step 3
1. What are the significant public health concerns including prevalence, cost, morbidity, and mortality pertinent to your speciality area?
2. What is the political and social drive to address the health concerns of the public; short-term, intermediate-term, long-term?
3. Who are the key stakeholders that are involved or influenced by the health concern at hand; patients/service users, health providers, policy makers, taxpayers, and governmental institutions?
4. How will your planned activities; practice, research, teaching, integration and engagement inform policy to advance the health of the public?
5. How do your planned activities align with the priorities of the institution (university, health system) from a local, region, national and global population perspective?
Reflection:
6. Why is it significant that you address this problem in the first instance?
7. What are the questions that you need to reflect on pertinent to the beliefs that the problem is in fact significant?
Fig. 6.6 Populate Step 3—Career legacy map policy context Questions for consideration to populate Step 2 [Table 6.1]
1. What have you done to date from past practice, research, teaching, engagement and scholarship that will in positive ways directly or indirectly contribute to your
legacy/destination?
2. What are the outcomes resulting from your past practice, research, teaching and scholarship that could inform the declared legacy/destination statement?
3. What are the gaps from the research outcomes and the policy context that may affect reaching the intended declared legacy/destination?
Fig. 6.5 Populate Step 2—Career legacy map past activities
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Step 4: Legacy Map Creation
Transfer information from Table 6.1 into Fig. 6.7 in order to commence a visual representation of aligning your current activities contributing to the declared legacy
Declared legacy/
destination Current activities
contributing to the declared legacy/destination
Current activities contributing to the declared legacy/destination
Current activities contributing to the declared legacy/destination
Current activities contributing to the declared legacy/destination
Fig. 6.7 Commencing alignment of current activities to declared legacy/destination
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Step 5: Legacy Map Planned Next Steps
Prioritise the future order of scholarly activities and strategies in order to pop- ulate your planned next steps in Fig. 6.9 towards the declared legacy/destination
Questions for consideration to populate content for Step 4 [Fig. 6.7]
1. What material have you have already to hand?
2. What activities have you in process currently that will in positive ways directly or indirectly contribute to you being able to achieve your declared legacy/destination?
3. What are your ideas for future projects and how do they connect with your current activities and what will the end goal be?
4. What are your future aspirations in the context of scholarship?
Content reflection:
5. What do you currently do? and What have you accomplished?
Process reflection:
6. How do you know that what you do is effective?
Fig. 6.8 Populate Step 4—Current activities legacy map
Declared legacy/
destination Planned
next steps
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Planned next steps Current activities
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Fig. 6.9 Legacy map planned next steps
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Questions for consideration to populate content for Step 5 [Fig. 6.9]
1. How will you get from your present state to the declared legacy/destination described?
2. Stand in the future with your legacy achieved, and reflect on how did you get from there to here?
3. What are the stepping-stones to the declared legacy/destination?
4. What are your future prioritised planned steps to achieve your intended declared legacy/destination?
5. What information have you collected for your planned steps?
6. What range of choices have you included in your planned next steps?
7. What are you willing to commit to each of the planned activities as an individual and collectively?
8. What are the links between current and planned actions toward achieving the declared legacy?
9. What training/resources do you need to bring together to move the project(s) forward?
Fig. 6.10 Populate Step 5—Legacy map planned next steps
Step 6: Goals
Identify the Specific Goals: Long-Range/Medium-Range/Short-Range/Mini- Range/Micro-Range
6a. What are your overall long-range goals?
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6b. What is the purpose of your work?
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6c. How do your long-range goals align with the policy context?
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6d. Populate Table 6.2 so that you can fill in the gaps necessary to reach your long- range goals:
Table 6.2 Goal plan towards long-range goal achievement
Goals
Goals identification
How does that goal increase your chances of reaching the long-range
goals Timeframe
Goal status based on review and feedback Medium-range
goals (over 1-year) Short-range goals (1–3 months) Mini-range goals (Monthly) Micro-range goals (Daily)
6e. What are your thoughts behind your planned actions to reach your goals?
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6f. Brainstorm using Fig. 6.11 for additional pointers for reflection in order to refine your ideas and to begin to construct a series of concept maps:
Fig. 6.11 Preparation for brainstorming and concept mapping
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Step 7: Concept Map and Context Menu
Reflect on and demonstrate your continued progression towards the intended destination/declared legacy by populating Fig. 6.13
7a. Challenges: Action Plan
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7b. Additional Training-Action Plan
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7c. Planned ‘Self-Scrutiny’ Activities-Action Plan
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Questions for consideration to populate content for Step 7 [Menu and Fig. 6.13]
1. Analyse, present and clarify the patterns across your ideas and concepts to plan the future sequence of studies, experiences, actions and strategies
2. Connect and group the studies, experiences, actions and strategies into building blocks and themes for your program of research, practice, teaching and engagement 3. Through this analysis, identify opportunities for support, potential challenges, and approaches to inform science and the policy context as you continously reflect on the progress made to-date towards advancing the declared legacy/destination statement
4. What additional training do you need to achieve any or all of the planned activities and studies?
5. Create a menu to make your planned activities associated with practice, teaching, research, integration and engagement open for peer, public, and self-scrutiny
Fig. 6.12 Populate Step 7—Career legacy map planned next steps
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Declared legacy/
destination Planned
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Planned next steps Current activities
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Fig. 6.13 Career legacy map planned next steps
Step 8: Legacy Map Alignment-Competing Career Activities
What are the competing career activities that do not align with the desired declared legacy/destination? Depict an accurate representation of all competing career activities in Table 6.3 in order to progress the legacy mapping process giv- ing due consideration also of pending opportunities
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Step 9: Supportive Career Legacy Cartography Team
9a. Who is in a position to support you in the creation of the declared legacy in instrumental and encouraging ways?
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9b. What are the team members willing to commit as individuals and collectively?
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9c. What do you need each team member to do?
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Competing career activities that dilute declared legacy efforts
Rationale for ending the activity
Delegation to another colleague who could benefit from assuming the activity
Career activities inherent in current role that require adaptations not previously considered
Table 6.3 Identification of competing activates with declared legacy
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9d. What do you plan to share with the members of the career legacy cartography team to progress towards the declared legacy/destination statement?
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9e. What are the gaps and recommended alternatives in the proposed legacy map identified by the team members pertinent to alignment of your declared legacy?
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9f. What are the gaps and recommended alternatives in the proposed legacy map identified by the mentor(s)/supervisor pertinent to alignment of your declared legacy?
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9g. What actions have you undertaken in response to feedback from the mentor/
supervisor of the career legacy cartography team?
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9h. What actions have you undertaken in response to feedback from the members of the career legacy cartography team?
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9i. What modifications have you commenced in response to changing circum- stances; such as methods selected that require careful adjustment pertinent to the project goals?
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Step 10: Communication and Dissemination of Legacy Map
10a. Who are the key stakeholders to communicate to being cognisant of their inter- ests and expertise?
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10b. What forum do you plan to use to communicate the elements and impact to- date of the practice and science to key stakeholders internal and external to your discipline, health care services and academia?
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10c. What are the significant messages for each key stakeholder pertinent to the legacy map and its contribution to your declared legacy/destination in the context of public health policy and your profession?
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10d. What are the gaps and recommended alternatives in the proposed legacy map identified by the key stakeholders?
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10e. What actions have you undertaken in response to feedback from the key stakeholders?
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Step 11: Legacy Map Anticipated Future Steps
Reflect on what activities you might follow through-on that will enable the development of new skills and knowledge as you progress your career legacy portfolio
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6.11.3 Professional Profile: Selected Samples of Scholarly Work