Manager/Director guidelines for endorsement of clinicians
Applicant: Please give this sheet to the manager/director who will endorse your application.
The following guidelines are to assist managers/directors with their responsibilities within the Clinical Recognition Program.
Responsibilities
As a manager/director, you will be asked to either endorse or not endorse a clinician’s request to submit a portfolio to the review board. Endorsement reflects your decision that the clinician meets the criteria described for the level of practice for which s/he is seeking recognition. Please review the criteria for the specific level of practice in question. The review board will carefully review the portfolio and will make a final decision about recognizing the applicant at that level.
Endorsement by the manager or director is necessary in order for the clinician to submit his/her portfolio. However, the final decision is made by the review board. The specific contents and development of the portfolio are the responsibility of the clinician.
If the decision is to endorse, your role is to coach and lend wisdom and guidance to the clinician in developing a portfolio that is representative of his/her practice. You may wish to review the portfolio before the clinician submits it. However, once you have endorsed, the clinician can move ahead. You are endorsing the clinician, not the portfolio.
The Portfolio
The contents of the portfolio are the clinician’s responsibility. However several facts may help to guide you in your role as coach.
The entire portfolio is reviewed by the review board and is designed to ensure the board understands the clinician’s practice. An interview will also be a part of the review.
The applicant’s cover letter provides an opportunity for the clinician to guide members of the review board in their review of the portfolio and allows the clinician an opportunity to give voice to his/her own assessment of practice.
The letters of reference and the narrative should reflect the clinician’s level of practice in all of the practice domains outlined in the program. Therefore, the selection of each piece of information is important in telling the whole story. Your advice and counsel are important in helping the clinician to understand the importance of the portfolio as a reflection of practice.
Resources will be available to the clinician, including sample portfolios.
Manager/Director endorsement form
Applicant: Please give this sheet to your manager/director to sign, indicating endorsement of your application. Include this signed form with your completed portfolio.
After a review of the criteria for _________________________(level of practice) I endorse
___________________________'s (name of clinician) application for recognition to the Clinical Recognition Review Board.
