Funded Projects
EIN is pleased to introduce its various cohorts of grantees. EIN’s first grant cycle (2009-2011) provided funding for four innovators in nursing education to support evaluations of different interventions, including Dedicated Education Units (DEUs); a technology-rich, accelerated BSN program relying on a mix of on-campus and offsite training, specially prepared clinical preceptors, and innovative course scheduling; and incorporation of a web-based virtual community into the curricula of several
nursing programs across the country. For its second round of grants (2010-2012), EIN has funded evaluations of the implementation of a statewide education consortium curriculum; the substitution of clinical simulation for supervised hospital rotations; and an analysis of a myriad of state-based, support-for-service programs which offer funding support to nursing students who wish to become nurse faculty.
Beginning in July 2012, a third cycle of grantees will launch evaluation projects whose findings will directly inform strategies to prepare faculty to educate nurses for roles in the reformed health care system envisioned in the IOM report. As with earlier cycles, funded research projects are designed to generate findings to inform strategies for addressing the nurse faculty shortage, while expanding the nurse workforce and maintaining or improving student outcomes.
RWJF-EIN grantees are part of a learning community with EIN colleagues who share the goals of conducting evaluations, generating evidence and disseminating findings to promote interventions that expand teaching capacity and promote faculty recruitment and retention in nursing education.
Cycle 3 grantee awards to be announced summer 2012.
