ARRA Grant Funds - Nurse Training

The College that I work for just received an ARRA grant from HRSA totaling $281,630.00 to enhance health professional training for nurses and nurse practitioners. Funds will be used to purchase new high fidelity clinical simulation equipment aimed at specialty education in pediatric and neonatal areas and incorporate use of these new technologies in a Children’s Hospital of Michigan nurse residency program as well as in our WSU undergraduate and graduate nursing onsite and distance learning programs.

This funding will substantially benefit training of nursing students, thus strengthening the nursing workforce, improving nurse retention, and enhancing quality of patient care. It will also significantly strengthen our undergraduate and graduate specialty education in neonatal, pediatric nursing and nurse midwifery as well as in distance education centers in Marquette, Grand Rapids, and Flint.

This is also very exciting as we were the only College at WSU to receive an ARRA: Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals, grant.  These manikins and simulations would assist in the "Doing" part of the R2D2 model.