Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship AENT Program

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Advanced Education NursingTraineeship (AENT)
Program

• FY 2010 Technical Assistance Workshops
• September 10-11, 2009 (Rockville, MD)
• September 28-29, 2009 (Denver, CO)
• Karen Delia Breeden, MPA
• Nancy Douglas-Kersellius
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Health Resources and Services Administration
• Bureau of Health Professions
• Division of Nursing

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AENT Legislative 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 reasonable living
• expenses.

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Application Due Dates

• Phase 1 Application Due Date in
• Grants.gov is ___________ EST
• Standard Form (SF 424 RR Short Form)
• HHS Checklist Form PHS-5161

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Application Due Dates (cont.)

• Phase 2 Supplemental Information
• Due Date in the HRSA EHBs is _____ EST
• Biographical Sketch of Project Director
• Project Abstract
• Program Narrative
• AENT Attachments (1-3)
• AENT Program Specific Tables (1-6)
• Special Consideration Assurance Statement

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Phase 2 Program Forms

• Attachment 1 Full-Time and Part-Time
  Status/Tuition, Fees and Stipends
• Attachment 2 Accreditation Documentation,
  Program Approvals
• Attachment 3 Biographical Sketch

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Phase 2 Program Tables

• Table 1 AENT
• Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Nurse
  Leader, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse
  Administrator/Nurse Educator, Other and
  Post-Nursing Masters Certificate Enrollment
  Traineeship Support and Graduate Data (Masters
  and Post-Nursing Masters Program data only)
• Table 2 AENT
• Nurse-Midwifery Certificate, Nurse-Midwifery
  Masters, Nurse-Midwifery Doctoral, Nurse
  Anesthesia Masters (First Year Only) and Nurse
  Anesthesia Doctoral (First Year Only) 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
• Table 5 AENT Ethnicity Data
• Table 6 AENT Race/Disadvantaged Data

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Eligible Applicants

• Collegiate schools of nursing
• Academic health centers and
• Other public or private entities

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Accreditation

• A collegiate school of nursing must be accredited
  by a body recognized by the Secretary of
  Education such as National League for Nursing
  Accreditation Commission (NLNAC), 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 of 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 stand
ards 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 of New Programs(cont.)

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

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Program Approvals
New programs must identify all steps in the
approval process and submit documentation of all
approvals with the application.
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Program Approvals (cont.)

• Documentation of approval may
• include a copy of a letter or meeting
• minutes from
• Nursing Faculty Committee
• Institutional Committees/Boards
• National Professional Associations (CCNE, NLNAC)

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Use of Grant Funds

• AENT funds may be used for
• Stipends (maximum of 8,800 per student)
• pro-rated for training periods less than 12
  months and
• Full tuition and fees are allowable costs.

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Use of Grant Funds (cont.)

• Trainee travel is not allowable.
• Required program textbooks are allowable up to
  500 per trainees.
• Only full-time, first-year nurse anesthesia
  students may be supported under the AENT program.

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Use of Grant Funds (cont.)

• 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)
• pursuing a Masters or doctoral degree, a
  combined RN to Masters degree, a nurse-midwifery
  certificate, or a post-nursing Masters
  certificate

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Eligible Students (cont.)

• a citizen of the United States, a non-citizen
  national, or foreign national who possesses a
  visa permitting permanent residence in the United
  States and
• 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 and
• A 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)

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Special Consideration (cont.)

• 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 Initiative

• 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.

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Fiscal Year 2009 Statistics (An early
application due date resulted in a decreased
number of applications and subsequent awards than
in previous Federal fiscal years.)

• Submitted Applications 272
• Applications Not Reviewed 0
• Applications Not Funded 2
• (World Network Institutional Services
  ineligible applicant
• Kennesaw State University duplicate
  application)
• AENT Grants Awarded 270
• Appropriation 16,000,000

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AENT Program Contact Information
Karen Delia Breeden, MPA Project Officer Health
Resources and Services Administration Burea
u of Health Professions Division of
Nursing Advanced Nurse Education Branch Email
KBreeden_at_hrsa.gov Phone [phone]
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Thank You!

• DIVISION OF NURSING
• Internet Address
• http//www.bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing