Expectations and Resources
Program Expectations
If accepted as an NLI Fellow, you are required to:
- familiarize yourself with the NLI webpages
- attend all in-person and virtual NLI activities and events
- read all email communications
- complete a leadership collaboration activity (information below)
- write a summary reflection (information below)
- complete all evaluations.
Further Information and Resources
Collaborative Project
This leadership collaboration provides a rich learning experience in which fellows translate their new knowledge and skills into action. Fellows are assigned to collaborative groups comprised of fellows working in academic and practice settings.
The collaborative work addresses a specific professional/health care topic or issue and fellows are best served when they align the project to a need within their organizations. These may include issues within Maryland nursing education, practice, research, and/or policy, such as:
- improving diversity in nursing education
- establishing formal post-preceptorship mentoring programs for graduate nurses
- providing nurse leadership during a pandemic
NLI Fellows present a poster of their leadership collaborative work at the cohort final celebration held at program’s end.
See previous NLI Fellow projects (scroll down to previous cohorts).
Summary Reflection Details
At the completion of the yearlong program, fellows submit a summary reflection.
The 1-page reflection should include:
1. Your initial program goals.
2. Reflections on:
- How NLI activities facilitated:
- achievement or adjustments of these goals
- development of your leadership style and skills.
- What it meant to have a mentor during this program.
3. Finally, tell us what you’d like to do next.
Nursing Continuing Professional Development
Nurses can receive approximately 20 contact hours upon successful completion of this leadership program. Successful completion for Nursing Continuing Professional Development is demonstrated by attending the entire program, completing all evaluations, and acknowledging attendance. Participants will receive a certificate via email from the University of Maryland School of Nursing approximately two to four weeks after submitting the required documentation.
The University of Maryland School of Nursing is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Note that we cannot offer partial Nursing Continuing Professional Development (CE) contact hours.