CFDA#
93.359
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Funder Type
Federal Government
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IT Classification
B - Readily funds technology as part of an award
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Authority
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Summary
The purpose of the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academies (NEPQR-CFPA) is to create academies consisting of academic-clinical partnerships to develop and implement a formal curriculum to train clinical nursing faculty and preceptors to become newly hired or transitioning licensed nurses in a variety of care settings in rural and/or underserved areas.
All applicants funded under this program will be required to implement the following:
- Training Curriculum Development - creating and implementing a formal clinical faculty and preceptor training curriculum to increase the knowledge and skillsets of nursing clinical faculty and preceptors;
- Support Services – tailoring services (academic, peer, and social supports) necessary to facilitate and maintain the success of clinical faculty and preceptors, including the implementation of strategies to improve resiliency and well-being to prevent burnout throughout the nursing pipeline;
- Recruitment and Retention – recruiting, training, developing, supporting, and evaluating clinical faculty and preceptors as program partners to enhance clinical and didactic nursing education;
- Financial Support – providing financial support such as stipends to nursing clinical faculty and preceptors to promote retention as a preceptor and to address the multi-faceted needs of the nursing education workforce;
- Post Training Employment - placing newly trained clinical faculty and preceptors with employment opportunities within partnering clinical sites; and
- Collaborative Partnerships (academic, practice, and community) – enhance or create new academic-clinical partnerships that facilitate:
- preceptor and preceptee training opportunities,
- curriculum development and implementation
- didactic training and clinical coordination, and
- oversight of clinical faculty and nurse preceptor training and development.
History of Funding
None is available.
Additional Information
Unallowable costs include:
- Paid release time for project faculty;
- Payment of temporary personnel replacement costs for the time faculty/ preceptors/participants are away from usual worksite during involvement in project activities;
- Laboratory fees;
- Foreign travel;
- Accreditation, credentialing, licensing, continuing education fees, certification exam/licensing fees, and franchise fees and expenses;
- Preadmission costs, including college entrance exam costs;
- Fringe benefits for participant/trainees, with the exception of health insurance; and
- Construction and Major Renovation.
Eligible entities must be ready to continue programmatic activities in the event of a public health emergency – both those that are expected and unexpected. A training-focused emergency preparedness plan is required.
A nursing preceptor can be defined as a nurse practitioner or nurse-midwife or other health professionals responsible for specific aspects of the clinical learning experience. The preceptor is responsible for the daily teaching and assignment of individuals to be cared for, supervision, and participation in the evaluation of the nurse practitioner or nurse-midwifery student.
Eligibility Details
Eligible applicants include accredited schools of nursing, health care facilities, including federally qualified health centers or nurse-managed health clinics, or a partnership of such a school and facility.
Please refer to the program guide to review the list of HHS regions.
Deadline Details
Applications are to be submitted by August 22, 2022.
Award Details
In FY 2022, a total of $10,000,000 is available to fund up to 10 awards. The maximum award amount is $1,000,000 for a project period of 4 years. Only 1 award will be given in each HHS region. A cost match is not required.
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