Project Grant T5839873

The Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) - Workforce Expansion Program, CFDA 93.359, awarded a $948,097 Project Grant to Loyola University of Chicago, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. The award, effective September 30, 2025 through September 29, 2029, will fund the "Nursing - Providing Access to Rural Acute and Long-Term Healthcare (N-PARALTH)" project. The project aims to increase the number of nursing students retained and graduated, provide specialized rural...

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded a $216,731 Project Grant to Western University of Health Sciences (WesterNU) under the Nursing Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.361). The "Training Interprofessional Community-Engaged Research Teams (T-CERT)" program will provide 1-year educational research training experiences to 80 nurse-scientists over two cohorts, with the goal of empowering nurses to become leaders in community-engaged research. The program aims to...

The Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $4,000,000 Project Grant under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359) to Avera Health, a non-profit integrated healthcare system in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The four-year grant, titled "RETAIN-RNS: Partnering to Expand and Retain South Dakota's Nursing Workforce in Acute and Long-Term Care Settings," aims to prepare BSN and RN...

The Samuel Merritt University's College of Nursing (SMU CON) was awarded a $1,968,192 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Workforce Expansion Program. The grant, titled the "Oakland Nursing Initiative for Community Health" (ONICH), aims to address the critical nursing shortage in Oakland, CA, which is designated as a Medically Underserved Area (MUA). The grant will fund a comprehensive...

This $996,275 Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359) aims to address critical nursing workforce shortages in long-term and acute care settings across rural Minnesota. The project will develop a comprehensive traineeship program to provide essential training, support, scholarships, and stipends to nursing students, particularly those facing economic...

The U.S. National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded a $269,984 Project Grant to the Trustees of Indiana University (IU) through the Nursing Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.361) to develop and implement the Midwest Leadership in Education, Application, and Dissemination of Research on the Social Determinants of Health (LEADRS) program. The LEADRS program aims to engage three cohorts of 20 nurse scientists and scientists in aligned professions (including 8 IU institutional...

This $1,000,000.00 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359) will support South Dakota State University's College of Nursing in Rapid City to increase nursing student enrollment by 15% over the four-year grant period. The "Growing Underserved Communities through Innovation, Development, and Education for...

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) was awarded a $979,449 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359). The funding will be used to increase nursing enrollment and the number of nursing graduates who plan to work in rural and medically underserved areas. The program aims to enhance nursing education and clinical...

This federal Project Grant award of $599,961 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants program (CFDA 93.732) will support the Interdisciplinary Education and Training Experience (IDEATE) program at Adelphi University. IDEATE aims to build an interdisciplinary, diverse behavioral health workforce of social workers and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) to increase access to integrated...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), through its Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grant Program (CFDA 93.359), awarded Dallas College (DC) a $2,451,013 Project Grant over a four-year period. The grant's goal is to increase the diversity of the nursing workforce in Dallas County by creating partnerships with local hospitals and facilities to provide their non-nursing employees an opportunity to obtain an...