Applications for the Reimagining Nursing Initiative
As the philanthropic arm of the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American Nurses Foundation works to achieve a healthy world through the power of nursing by elevating the profession of nursing globally, engaging all nurses to ensure professional success, and evolving the practice of nursing to transform health and health care.
The American Nurses Foundation's Reimagining Nursing (RN) Initiative aims to elevate the nursing profession's capability to match future health demands by investing in opportunities for transformative change that lie at the intersection of education, regulation, and practice. To that end, the foundation is seeking grantees to pilot and evaluate bold new ideas and undertake this work in ways that enable others to replicate the pilot's success and accelerate widespread transformation in nursing.
Over the next three years, the RN Initiative will award up to $15 million in grants to as many as eleven innovative pilot programs that equip nurses with leading-edge knowledge, tools, environments, and systems to deliver exemplary care. Each pilot may request $500,000 to $1.5 million over three years. The foundation is seeking pilot programs that address one or more of the following priorities that capture the key dimensions of the nursing profession: capability, quality, and reach:
Practice-Ready Nurse Graduates: Efforts to support innovations in competency validation and clinical preceptorship that ensure newly graduated nurses can immediately contribute to and succeed in a continuously transforming health delivery system.
Technology-Enabled Nursing Practice: Efforts to support the design and implementation of technology-based tactics and tools designed by nurses and for nurses that meaningfully enhance the practice of nursing.
Direct-Reimbursement Nursing Models: Efforts to expand nursing practice opportunities and elevate the value of nursing through direct reimbursement for nursing care delivery, management, and coordination outcomes.
Eligible organizations include nonprofit organizations, government entities, and public agencies. For-profit entities are eligible to apply with the understanding that all grant funds must be used for a charitable, educational, or other tax-exempt purpose and must be segregated from the grantee's general funds, and, the pilot will not result in more than incidental benefit or profit to any private persons or the business (other than any intended charitable beneficiaries). The requested grant amount cannot exceed the organization's cost in carrying out the charitable or educational activity and that the pilot either will not result in any profit to the for-profit organization or its shareholders or that any gains will be returned to the American Nurses Foundation or otherwise dedicated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes.
For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the American Nurses Foundation website.
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