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BIDEN INVESTS $100 MILLION TO GROW NURSING WORKFORCE


— INCLUDES SUPPORT FOR TRAINEES, FACULTY POSITIONS, AND NPS LAUNCHING PRACTICES

by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today August 11, 2023


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The Biden Administration announced new funding on Thursday to help grow and
retain the nurse workforce.

"The $100 million dollars we are announcing today does three key things," said
Carole Johnson, administrator for the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA): It helps to build a "career ladder" for licensed
practical nurses (LPNs) and vocational nurses who want to become registered
nurses; targets bottlenecks in nursing by incentivizing more nurses to become
faculty; and supports training for nurses to become primary care providers who
can help to fill gaps in care for maternal health, mental health, and substance
use disorders.



In 2022, nearly 80,000 qualified applications were rejected by nursing
schools,opens in a new tab or window according to the American Association of
Colleges of Nursing, Johnson said. "And one of the reasons for that is a lack of
faculty."

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said that in visiting with deans and faculty at
nursing schools in different states, he consistently hears that the faculty
shortage is one of the biggest obstacles to expanding the workforce.

Becerra noted that June Eastridge, MSN, RN, EdD, dean of the School of Nursing
at Nevada State College in Henderson, had told him, "It's tough to lure an
experienced ... licensed practitioner to teach because they lose so much
income."

The HHS Secretary and Eastridge spoke about how HRSA is targeting precisely that
issue in establishing grants so that nurses aren't having to give up their
income to become instructors.

Similarly, "there is no reason why a qualified American who wishes to become a
nurse should not have a place where they can learn," Becerra said. "We're going
to do everything we can to make sure that that budding nurse and that practiced
experienced nurse have a chance to learn and to teach."



The awards will be distributed across the following programs:

 * $8.7 million for the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention-Pathway
   to Registered Nurse Program (NEPQR-PRNP), which aims to help LPNs become
   registered nurses
 * $34.8 million for the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program,
   which provides tuition assistance to increase the supply of primary care
   nurse practitioners (NPs)
 * $30 million for the Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency
   and Fellowship (ANE-NPRF) Program to establish a residency model for NPs
 * $26.5 million for the Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) to target financial
   barriers for individuals choosing to become nurse faculty
 * $2.25 million for the Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship Program to grow the
   pipeline of certified registered nurse anesthetists


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The NEPQR-PRNP will award up to $1 million per grantee, providing stipends and
tuition assistance as well as social supports, such as for transportation and
childcare. These kinds of supports will help LPNs who want to become registered
nurses advance in their career, Johnson explained.



In addition, the NFLP will provide grants to awardees to offer low-interest
loans to individuals training to become nurse faculty and up to 85% loan
cancellation plus interest, she said, for those who graduate and work 4 years as
full-time nurse faculty.

Johnson estimates the program could help produce 3,000 additional nurse
instructors.

The ANE-NPRF program mirrors the residency model for physicians and applies it
to NPs, allowing them to receive "intensive training" that will ultimately help
them launch their own primary care practices.

The program will focus heavily on behavioral health integration, Johnson said.

Also, ANEW grants, awarded to 56 grantees, will help defray tuition and build
partnerships between academic medical training programs and community settings,
"so that nurses can lead when it comes to delivering primary care, maternal
healthcare support, mental health, and [care for people with] substance use
disorders," she said.

In each of these areas, there are gaps in services, Johnson added. "We know
advanced practice nurses can fill those critical gaps ... and this program is
critical to doing it."

 * Shannon Firth has been reporting on health policy as MedPage Today's
   Washington correspondent since 2014. She is also a member of the site's
   Enterprise & Investigative Reporting team. Follow

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