Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention - Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academies Program

For programmatic or technical questions:
Jasmine Price, MHA
301.443.7151
JPrice@hrsa.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
Gerly Sapphire Marc-Harris, M.Ed.
301.443.2628
SMarc-Harris@hrsa.gov

The Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention - Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academies (NEPQR-CFPA) Program provides funding to prepare nurses to serve as nursing clinical faculty and preceptors to newly hired or transitioning licensed nurses in a variety of care settings in rural and underserved areas.

Funding will 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. The overall objective is to increase the nursing workforce by producing skilled, qualified clinical nursing faculty and preceptors to address health equity, increase access to care, and increase capacity of the nursing workforce.

Eligible applicants include accredited schools of nursing; healthcare facilities, including Federally Qualified Health Centers; and nurse-managed health clinics, or partnerships of schools and facilities.

Estimated award amount: $1,000,000 per year
Project period: 4 years
Estimated number of awards: 10
Estimated total program funding: $10,000,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.