$1.47M grant to boost nursing program
Thursday, September 02, 2010
The University at Buffalo School of Nursing will expand higher-education opportunities for nurses with a new $1.47 federal grant.
The grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will fund a three-year program to maximize the opportunity to educate future PhD level nurse faculty.
The program is designed to help address a national shortage of nursing faculty. According to a UB statement, the shortage is linked to the inability of nursing schools to prepare enough entry level and advanced practice nurses to meet demands.
Suzanne Dickerson, associate professor of nursing and author of the grant application, said the goal is to increase availability and diversity of future nurse faculty, especially in New York, which includes 170 health provider shortage areas in need of nurses.
UB School of Nursing is one of only two public PhD programs in the SUNY system. This limits access to nurse PhD education for many living too far from either of these universities and also for those who need to maintain employment while pursuing their doctoral degrees.
The new program, set to begin in January, will combine a traditional onsite and distance-learning approach to education using the Community of Inquiry Model, which will increase access to low-cost PhD education for qualified nurses.Read Full Article
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