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health professionals such as pharmacy,
medicine, or behavioral health students,
D. Integrate and emphasize an
Evidence Based Practice (EBP)
curriculum,
E. Have student clinical rotations
established with Indian health
programs,
F. Provide access to the nursing
curriculum using distance learning,
G. Have formal bridge program
agreements between Tribal colleges or
universities to accommodate License
Practical Nurse (LPN) to Associate
Degree in Nursing (ADN)/BSN or BSN to
Master’s of Science in Nursing (MSN)/
Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP)
students,
H. Have a faculty exchange program
between a Tribal college and UND
School of Nursing to enhance cultural
relevance, competency, and faculty
strength,
I. Have an emphasis on transcultural
nursing and cultural competency, and
J. Have a rural health focus.
Continuation awards are subject to the
availability of funds and satisfactory
performance.
To obtain application instructions
please click on the following link and go
to the funding opportunities: https://
www.ihs.gov/NonMedicalPrograms/
gogp/index.cfm?rnodule=gogp_funding.
Criteria
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A. Methodology (40 Points)
Applicants must train nurses at the
graduate level in nurse anesthesia, nurse
midwifery, nurse practitioners, nursing
healthcare administration, or
undergraduate level at the BSN degree
level and should provide this training in
an interdisciplinary manner. The
applicant’s curriculum should be
available via a distance learning model
and emphasize and integrate EBP,
transcultural nursing, and include a
rural health focus. Applicants must
define how they will locate and recruit
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/
AN) students and provide support
services to AI/AN students who are
recruited to facilitate their success in
the nursing program and to track their
progress. Applicants must define how
they will assist the graduate nurse with
job placement and track their payback
status to ensure that the obligees comply
with the terms of their service
obligation. Applicants should have a
mechanism in place to provide their
students with clinical rotations in AI/
AN health programs, have a bridge
program agreement between Tribal
colleges or universities so as to
accommodate LPN to ADN/BSN or BSN
to MSN/DNP and have a faculty
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exchange program with a Tribal college
or university and a university school of
nursing.
B. Capacity (20 Points)
Applicants must provide verification
of accreditation and show that they are
capable of conducting the project from
a technical and business standpoint by
providing the qualifications and
credentials of key personnel and a
sound fiscal plan using the grant funds.
Applicants for the Graduate or
Bachelor’s level grants must submit
verifying documentation of National
League of Nursing Accreditation
Commission or American Association of
Colleges of Nursing Commission on
Collegiate Nursing Education
accreditation. All programs must submit
verifying documentation of State
approval.
C. Need (15 Points)
Applicants must justify the need for
their project and provide a plan for the
methodology they will use for recruiting
AI/AN students nationwide as well as
how they will actively assist nursing
graduates with job placement.
Applicants must recruit and train AI/
AN individuals to be nurses at the
graduate and undergraduate level and
provide scholarships to those AI/AN
individuals enrolled in the school of
nursing to pay tuition, books, fees, and
stipends for living expenses; provide a
program that encourages AI/AN nurses
at the graduate and undergraduate level
to provide or continue to provide,
health care services in AI/AN health
care programs; and provide a program
that increases the skills of, and provides
continuing education, to AI/AN nurses
at the graduate and undergraduate level.
D. Evaluation (15 Points)
Applicants must present a plan for
evaluating their success in carrying out
the project and on an annual basis
conduct a quantitative and qualitative
evaluation of their year’s activities,
identifying what areas of the project
need to be improved and how they will
make those improvements. Applicants
must identify how they will meet on an
annual basis with the other project
directors and staff under this grant
program to share successes and
challenges and to receive Federal grant
training.
E. Prior Experience (10 Points)
The UND must identify their
experience with other similar projects,
including the results of those projects
and provide evidence of their past or
potential cooperation and experience
with AI/AN communities and Tribes
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and how UND Works with the Center
for Gifted and Talented Indian Students
established under section 5324(a) of the
Indian Education Act of 1988.
Agency Contacts(s):
For program-related information,
contact Ms. Sandra L. Haldane, BSN,
RN, MS, Director, Division of Nursing
Services, Office of Clinical and
Prevention Services, Indian Health
Service, 801 Thompson Avenue,
Reyes Building, Suite 300, Rockville,
MD 20852, (301) 443–1840.
For grants-related information, contact
Ms. Norma Jean Dunne, Grants
Management Specialist, Division of
Grants Operations, Indian Health
Service, 801 Thompson Avenue, TMP
360, Rockville, MD 20852, (301) 443–
5204. (The telephone numbers are not
toll-free numbers).
Dated: September 2, 2008.
Robert G. McSwain,
Director, Indian Health Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Center for Scientific Review; Amended Notice of Meeting
Notice is hereby given of a change in the meeting of the Molecular
and Integrative Signal Transduction Study Section, October 2, 2008, 8
a.m. to October 3, 2008, 5:30 p.m., Sheraton Delfina Santa Monica
Hotel, 530 West Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405 which was
published in the Federal Register on August 18, 2008, 73 FR 48219-
48220.
The meeting will be held one day only October 2, 2008. The meeting
time and location remain the same. The meeting is closed to the public.
Dated: September 3, 2008.
Jennifer Spaeth,
Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. E8-20908 Filed 9-9-08; 8:45 am]
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