Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship AENT Program

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Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT)
Program
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WORKSHOPS FY 2008

• Dallas, TX            October 11-12 at the
  Renaissance Dallas Hotel Washington, DC
    October 17-18 at the Hilton Rockville
• Karen Delia Breeden, Program Analyst
• Nancy Douglas-Kersellius, Public Health Analyst
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Health Resources and Services Administration
• Bureau of Health Professions
• Division of Nursing

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PURPOSE

• Grants authorized to meet the costs of
• traineeships that will pay all or part of the
• costs of the tuition, books, and fees of the
• Advanced nurse education programs, and
• the reasonable living expenses.

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APPLICATION DUE DATES

• Phase 1 Application Due Date in Grants.gov
  November XX, 2007
• Phase 2 Supplemental Information Due Date in
• HRSA EHBs
• December XX, 2007

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PHASE 1 - PROGRAM FORMS

• Attachment 1 AENT Program Agreement
• Attachment 2 Full-Time and Part-Time Status /
  Tuition, Fees
• and Stipends
• Attachment 3 AENT Special Consideration
  Assurance
• Statement
• Attachment 4 Accreditation Documentation of the
  Program

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PHASE 2 - PROGRAM TABLES

• Table 1 AENT Clinical Nurse Specialist,
  Clinical Nurse Leader,
• Nurse Practitioner, Nurse
  Administrator / Nurse Educator,
• and
  Post-Nursing Masters Certificate Traineeship
  Support
• and
  Graduate Data (Masters Program data only)
• Table 2 AENT Nurse-Midwifery Certificate,
  Nurse-Midwifery
• Masters, Nurse-Midwifery Doctoral
  and Nurse
• Anesthesia Enrollment,
  Traineeship Support and
• Graduate Data
  

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PHASE 2 - PROGRAM TABLES CONT.

• Table 3 AENT Doctoral Enrollment, Traineeship
  Support and
• Graduate
  Data
• Table 4 AENT Graduate Data Rural,
  Underserved, or Public Health
  
• (07/01/06
  06/30/07)
• Table 5 AENT Ethnicity Data
• Table 6 AENT Race / Disadvantaged Data

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ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS

• Eligible Applicants must be
• Collegiate schools of nursing
• Academic health centers and
• Other public or private entities accredited by a
  national nurse education accrediting agency or
  State approval agency recognized by the Secretary
  of the U.S. Department of Education.

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PROGRAM ACCREDITATION

• A collegiate school of nursing must be accredited
  by a body recognized by the Secretary of
  Education,
• i.e.
• National League for Nursing Accreditation
  Commission (NLNAC) or
• Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
  (CCNE).
• Both institutional and graduate nursing program
  accreditations are required before the
  application can be considered for funding.

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ACCREDITATION NEW PROGRAMS

• New programs that are not yet accredited must
  provide documentation from the Department of
  Education that indicates reasonable assurance
  that the program will meet the accreditation
  standards of NLNAC or CCNE prior to the beginning
  of the academic year following the normal
  graduation date of students of the first entering
  class.

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ACCREDITATION NEW PROGRAMS CONT.

• Documentation of the assurance from the
  Department of Education must be submitted with
  the application.
• New Programs should contact the Department of
  Education, Accreditation and State Liaison Unit
  at [phone] and follow instructions in
  application guidance.

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PROGRAM APPROVALS

• New programs (i.e. tracks/specialties, masters
  and doctoral) must identify all steps in the
  approval process and provide documentation of
  approval, i.e. copy of letter or meeting minutes
  from
• Nursing Faculty Committee
• Institutional Committees/Boards
• State bodies (State Boards of Nursing, Higher
  Education Boards)
• National Professional Associations (CCNE, NLNAC)
• Schools must submit documentation of all
  approvals with the application.

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USE OF GRANT FUNDS

• Stipends (maximum of 8,800 per student)
  pro-rated for training periods less than 12
  months
• Full tuition and fees
• Trainee travel not allowable

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USE OF GRANT FUNDS CONT.

• Required textbooks up to 500 per trainee.
• Books for library or personal/professional use
  may not be charged to the grant.
• Only full-time, first-year nurse anesthesia
  students may be supported under the AENT program.
  
• Institutions should submit a separate Nurse
  Anesthetist Traineeship Program grant application
  to support nurse anesthesia students enrolled
  beyond the first 12 months of study.

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ELIGIBLE STUDENTS

• Eligible Student must be
• Enrolled full-time or part-time (within the last
  12 months of study prior to graduation)
• In an advanced education nursing program for
  preparation as a
• nurse practitioner,
• nurse-midwife,
• nurse anesthetist,
• clinical nurse specialist,
• public health nurse,
• nurse administrator,
• nurse educator,
• or other nurse specialty determined by the
  Secretary
• to require advanced education

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ELIGIBLE STUDENTS

• Students must also be
• Pursuing a Masters or doctoral degree, a
  combined RN to Masters degree, a nurse-midwifery
  certificate, or a post-nursing Masters
  certificate
• Citizen of the United States, a non-citizen
  national, or foreign national who possesses a
  visa permitting permanent residence in the United
  States
• Eligible for national nursing certification in
  the nursing specialty or field of study (as
  applicable) following graduation

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STATUTORY FUNDING PREFERENCE

• Preference will be given to qualified applicants
  that
• demonstrate a
• High rate of graduates accepting positions in
  medically underserved areas
• Minimum of 45 of graduates who spend at least
  50
• of work time in these areas

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SPECIAL CONSIDERATION

• Special consideration will be given to eligible
  applicants
• who
• will use the award to train advanced education
  nurses who will practice in Health Profession
  Shortage Areas (HPSAs)
• provide applicant assurance and
• document a minimum of 10 of students who sign
  commitments to practice in HPSAs after graduation.

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HEALTHY PEOPLE 2010

• Healthy People 2010 is a national initiative
  led by HHS that sets priorities for all HRSA
  programs. The initiative has two major goals
• To increase the quality and years of a healthy
  life
• Eliminate our countrys health disparities.
• Summarize the relationship of your project and
  identify which of the programs objectives and/or
  sub-objectives relate to the goals of the Healthy
  People 2010 initiative in the Program Narrative.

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FISCAL YEAR 2007 STATISTICS

• Submitted applications 352
• Not recommended for funding 5
• (i.e. not accredited / did not contact the
  U.S. Department of Education)
• AENT grants awarded 347
• (36 Type 1 New / 311 Type 2 Competing
  Continuation)
• Appropriation 16,000,000
• HRSA Announcement HRSA-07-088

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BUREAU OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS DIVISION OF NURSING
Any Questions? Karen Breeden Telephone
301-443-6333 Website www.bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing