Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) Program

Post Date

December 3rd 2013

Application Due Date

January 24th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

HRSA-14-069

CFDA Number(s)

93.178

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Health

https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=7cb5d7f9-c6e9-4b09-9b14-517aecb6a0f1

Number of Awards

12

Eligibility Categories

Non-Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Organizations
Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)
Other

Eligible applicants include accredited schools of nursing, nursing centers, academic health centers, State or local governments, and other private or public entities determined appropriate by the Secretary, including eligible faith-based,Ф community-based, and Tribes/tribal organizations.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $4000000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

This announcement solicits applications for the Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) Program. NWD grants are awarded to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities under-represented among registered nurses) by providing (1) student scholarships or stipends for diploma or associate degree nurses to enter a bridge or degree completion program, and (2) student scholarships or stipends for accelerated nursing degree programs, pre-entry preparation, advanced education preparation, and retention activities. The goals of the NWD program and the purposes of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) are consistent with the statutory authority provided in Title VIII to support projects that assist underrepresented students throughout the educational pipeline to become registered nurses, facilitate diploma or associate degree registered nurses becoming baccalaureate-prepared registered nurses, and prepare practicing registered nurses for advanced nursing education. For FY 2014, the Division of Nursing will solicit three-year grants that support innovative efforts by schools of nursing to recruit, retain, and graduate disadvantaged students. ФDisadvantaged populations for this award include: racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses and individuals who are educationally and economically disadvantaged. This FOA solicits applications that propose evidence-based, multi-level partnership models, approaches, and/or strategies, that incorporate the social determinants of health framework into the design, implementation, and evaluation of scholarship, loan, and pre-entry/mentoring programs including those that support progression through professional nursing, such as Bachelor of Science in Nursing to graduate degrees including master's and higher level degrees such as the PhD. ФThe nursing workforce diversity literature is replete with data to suggest that financial and interpersonal levers such as scholarships, loans, and mentoring are necessary, but not wholly sufficient, to recruit, retain, and graduate underrepresented populations into schools of nursing. Therefore, projects must propose innovative ways to consider multi-level approaches that utilize the social determinants of health[1],[2],[3] to frame its scholarship, stipend, and pre-entry/mentoring activities. Proposed projects should extend beyond individual-level interventions (scholarships, stipends, and pre-entry/mentoring activities) and address the larger social and structural forces that impede efforts to diversify the nursing workforce, increase access to quality care, reduce health disparities, and improve health equity. ФFor example, Johnson and Bozeman[4] describe an Asset Bundles model that targets critical areas in which minority students may need additional support to continue toward careers in science. ФThe asset bundles articulate relevant factors that impact educational retention and achievement к educational endowments, science socialization, network development, family expectations, and material resources. ФAn example of a program that achieved goals similar ones BHPr hopes applicants will achieve is a program at the University of Illinois at Chicago к the Urban Health Program.Ф The program developed an innovative and comprehensive strategy to recruit, retain, and graduate minority students interested in health care careers, and to provide precollege educational and research experiences for underrepresented minority populations in elementary and secondary public schools.[5] ФThe Urban Health Program evolved from a community action model and was an institutional response to a demand from the local community for early outreach and academic pipeline initiatives targeted to local minority students. ФThe success of the Urban Health Program model is partly attributed to changes in the University culture and the University leadershipкs commitment to diversity within the University of Illinois at Chicago. [1]CSDH (2008). Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Geneva, World Health Organization. [2] Marmot M, Friel S. Global health equity: evidence for action on the social determinants of health. J Epidemiol Community Health 2008;62:1095-7. [3] Marmot M, Allen J, Bell R et al. WHO European review of social determinants of health and the health divide. Lancet 2012;380:1011-29. [4] Johnson J, Bozeman B. Perspective: Adopting an asset bundles model to support and advance minority studentsк careers in academic medicine and the scientific pipeline. Academic Medicine 2012;87:1488-95. [5] Toney M. The long, winding road: One Universityкs quest for minority health care professionals and services. Academic Medicine 2012;87:1556-61.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Health Resources and Services Administration

• Agency 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
  CallCenter@HRSA.GOV
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Contact HRSA Call Center at 877-Go4-HRSA/877-464-4772 or email CallCenter@HRSA.GOV

• Agency Email Address:

  CallCenter@HRSA.GOV