General Information Document Type: Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-15-046 Funding Opportunity Title: Advanced Nursing Education Program Opportunity Category: Discretionary Funding Instrument Type: Grant Category of Funding Activity: Health Category Explanation: https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=ea0a6ea7-95b8-4dc7-b211-a1c69ddde5af Expected Number of Awards: 17 CFDA Number(s): 93.247 -- Advanced Nursing Education Grant Program Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No Posted Date: Dec 3, 2014 Creation Date: Dec 4, 2014 Original Closing Date for Applications: Feb 13, 2015 Current Closing Date for Applications: Feb 13, 2015 Archive Date: Apr 14, 2015 Estimated Total Program Funding: $12,300,000 Award Ceiling: $0 Award Floor: $0 Eligibility Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification) Additional Information on Eligibility: Eligible applicants are schools of nursing, nursing centers, academic health centers, State or local governments, non-profit health care facilities and other public or private nonprofit entities determined to be appropriate by the Secretary. In addition to the 50 States, only the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau are eligible to apply under this funding opportunity announcement. Federally recognized Indian Tribal Government and Native American Organizations may apply if they are otherwise eligible. Additional Information Agency Name: Health Resources and Services Administration Description: This announcement solicits applications from eligible applicants for projects to support the enhancement of Advanced Nursing Education and Practice. It is anticipated that projects will develop and test innovative academic-practice partnership models for clinical training within the graduate nursing education programs that prepare graduate nursing students to provide safe, quality care within the complex practice-based environment of the nation¿s evolving healthcare system. Awardees will create one or more innovative partnerships between academic institutions and rural or underserved clinical practice sites to improve the quality of clinical sites and preceptors, improve preceptor training and promote students¿ readiness to practice upon graduation. Awardees will also use on-going, iterative quality improvement and outcomes evaluation methods to test and improve the effectiveness of the clinical training models. For the purposes of this announcement, the term ¿advanced education nurses¿ means individuals trained in advanced degree programs including individuals in combined R.N./Master¿s degree programs, post-nursing master¿s certificate programs, or, in the case of nurse midwives, in certificate programs in existence on the date that is one day prior to November 13, 1998, to serve as nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists, nurse educators, nurse administrators, or public health nurses, or in other nurse specialties determined by the Secretary to require advanced education (Sec. 811(b) of the PHS Act, 42 U.S.C. § 296j(b)). Link to Additional Information: Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HRSA Grants Application Center, 910 Clopper Road, Suite 155 South, Gaithersburg, MD, 20878 [email protected] Contact Nancy Douglas-Kerselius at ((30)1) -443- Ext. 0907 or email [email protected]
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