Funding

HRSA Training Grant/Program objectives.   The overarching goal of this project is to enhance national capacity in disaster nursing and in environmental health nursing.  Within this context, the objectives of this training grant are to:

• Recruit, train and matriculate graduate nursing students (6-10/year) in an advanced competency-based disaster preparedness and response certificate program
• Develop and offer a competency-based advanced practice nursing certificate program in environmental health nursing and to recruit and certify 4-10 graduate nursing students/year in this program.
• Establish a disaster and environmental health nursing advisory board drawing on local and national leaders in environmental health and disaster nursing to provide strategic input on curricular and programmatic decisions.
• Identify, incorporate and integrate basic and advanced competency-derived principles, skills and attitudes of disaster preparedness and response and environmental health nursing, by emphasizing cross-cutting content, into the graduate curricula of the University of Washington’s School of Nursing .  This initiative will provide cross-cutting training for 200+ graduate nurses over the 3 year grant cycle.
• Extend the reach and impact of these graduate level disaster and environmental health offerings by making them available via one CNE conference/year and a variety of distance learning modalities and hence, accessible to rural nurses.  The CNE conferences would offer DP/R and EH training to 100 nurses/year and the on-line distance modalities would train 4-6 distance learner (DL) nurses/year (in Yr 02-03). 
• Create a plan that ensures that these training grant program activities will be sustained for the next 10 years.