Announcement

A complete list of the program details and applications are located on the Health Resources and Services Agency (HRSA) website. Selected programs are listed below.

The Geropsychiatric Nursing Collaborative, in collaboration with key stakeholders, has developed the following resources to draw attention to the special needs of older adults with mental health concerns and psychiatric/substance misuse disorders.

The Health Resources and Services Administration's  Division of Nursing is now accepting applications for funding through its Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP).  The 2010 NFLP funding opportunity will be used to award both the regular NFLP appropriation and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)-NFLP funding.  Applicants may apply to one or both of these funding requests using this single program guidance.  The ARRA funding option will be addressed during Phase 2 of the application process.

This initiative, which includes multiple programs, provides grant funds for the purchase of health professions training equipment. There are 21 health professions training programs from Titles III, VII and VIII of the Public Health Service Act that fall under this initiative. Each program has limited eligible activities that are described in their respective announcements.

Two major loan repayment programs are available to nurse educators and students through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s Division of Nursing has announced the fiscal year 2010 funding opportunity for the Advanced Education Nursing (AEN) Program.

The program announcement number for AEN is HRSA-10-065.  The CFDA number is 93.247.

Funding opportunities for the Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship Program (AENT) and the Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship Program (NAT).

Program announcement number for AENT is HRSA-10-048 and the program annoucement number for NAT is HRSA-10-050.

Lead project officer is Karen Breeden: 301-443-6333 or 301-443-5787.

Submission dates for Phase 1 and Phase 2 for both AENT and NAT are:

Partners Investing in Nursing's Future (PIN) is a partnership of the Northwest Health Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supporting local foundations to invest in nursing workforce solutions. Partners Investing in Nursing's Future helps local and regional philanthropies develop solutions to the nursing workforce shortage.

PIN program goals include:

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education is a program that was created to support evaluations of interventions that expand teaching capacity or promote faculty recruitment and retention in nursing schools. The program's focus is on increasing the number of nursing school graduates by evaluating strategies that address the nurse faculty shortage.