School of Nursing Receives HRSA Award Funding
Outlook 7/2008

The School of Nursing was recently notified that four grant applications, totaling more than $645K will receive funding from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. Carol Howe, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, professor, interim director of advanced practice nursing programs, and director of nurse midwifery program , was awarded $300,142 for “Midwifery: Efficacy/Data/Disparity/Education/Expansion”, which aims to enhance and expand the education of nurse-midwives. Paula McNeil, MS, RN, assistant professor, director of continuing education, and executive director of the Western Institute of Nursing, was awarded $267,283 for  “NEXus - The Nursing Education Xchange: Collaborative Efforts to Resolve the Nursing Faculty Shortage”. This project will address the nursing faculty shortage and rapid growth in doctorate of nursing practice programs by serving more students through efficiencies gained by inter-institution collaboration. Judith Baggs, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and senior associate dean, was awarded $68,238 for “Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship Program” which provides traineeship funding for master’s and doctoral School of Nursing students. Stephen Yermal, PhD, RN, CRNA, assistant professor and director of nurse anesthesia program, was awarded $9,903 for “Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship Program” which will provide scholarships for second year nurse anesthesia master’s students.