The Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University has received a three-year, $2 million grant from the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for an advanced nursing education program titled, “Caring-based Academic Partnerships (CAPPs) to Enhance Nurse Practitioner Readiness and Willingness to Practice in Rural and Underserved Communities.” These HRSA grants are intended to grow the primary care workforce, including advanced practice nurses and behavioral health professionals.
The key objectives of this new nursing program are to improve access to high-quality integrated primary and behavioral/mental health care for rural and underserved communities through strategic academic-clinical partnerships to educate a practice-ready and culturally-diverse doctor of nursing practice (DNP) workforce; to co-create innovative, evidence-based, relevant learning experiences for DNP students that are grounded in a compassionate and caring framework to enhance their readiness and willingness to practice in rural and underserved communities; to engage a competency-driven mentor workforce with practice partners; and to build a value-added model of redesigned teaching and clinical DNP education for the sustainable integration of academia and practice.
