Health Workforce Programs

Purpose: Assist in the recruitment and retention of professional registered nurses, including advanced practice registered nurses dedicated to working in health care facilities with a critical shortage of nurses or working as nurse faculty in eligible schools of nursing by decreasing the economic barriers associated with pursuing careers at such critical shortage facilities or in academic nursing.

Purpose: Provide scholarships to nursing students in exchange for a minimum two-year, full-time service commitment (or part-time equivalent) at an eligible health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses.

Purpose: Support the creation of academies, consisting of academic-clinical-community partnerships, that develop and implement formal nurse education training curriculum used to train clinical nursing faculty and preceptors.

Purpose: Increase the access to and quality of behavioral health services through team-based care models in interprofessional nurse-led primary care teams in rural or underserved areas.

Purpose: Increase and strengthen the diversity, education, and training of the nursing workforce to provide culturally aligned quality care in rural and underserved areas where there are health care disparities related to access to and delivery of care.

Purpose: Create a pathway from academic training to clinical practice through the creation and implementation of licensed practical nurse/licensed vocational nurse to registered nurse bridge programs and employment of clinical nurse faculty.

Purpose: Enhance nursing education and practice to increase the number of nursing students trained in acute care settings to address and manage social determinant of health factors and improve health equity and health literacy in underserved areas.

Purpose: Enhance nurse education and strengthen the nursing workforce by increasing training opportunities for nursing students through the use of simulation-based technology, including equipment, to increase their readiness to practice upon graduation.

Purpose: Increase the nursing workforce in rural and underserved areas to address the critical shortage of nurses, specifically in acute and long-term care settings.

Purpose: Assist accredited public schools and educational intuitions in offering low-interest loans to degree-seeking students in the health care field.