Improving Primary Health Care

HRSA Nurse Education, Practice Quality and Retention Grants 9/30/22 – 9/29/26

TITLE: An Innovative States-wide Nursing Workforce Clinical Preceptor Academy

Objective 1: Complete a comprehensive needs assessment to identify the unique clinical preceptor landscape in the state and region, to include motivating factors and barriers, that will inform the vision and creation of standardized curriculum, recruitment and retention strategies, and supportive infrastructure for clinical precepting.

Objective 2: Create a Preceptor Academy to train and support clinical faculty/preceptors using innovative technology, design, and approach which is both unique to the needs of the local nursing environment and amenable to scaling to a regional and national level.

Objective 3: Enhance and create relationships with existing and new academic-clinical community partners to create new clinical faculty opportunities, assess clinical preceptor needs, address barriers to recruitment and retention, contribute to and enhance collective expertise, and harness communication networks to share Preceptor Academy opportunities and resources.

Objective 4: Leverage existing and implement new support services to academic, peer, and social supports to optimize the success of clinical faculty including promotion of resiliency and wellbeing as well as prevention of burnout.

Objective 5: Develop and implement a comprehensive evaluation plan to assure that the articulated efforts are increasing the nursing workforce by recruiting, training, and producing skilled qualified clinical nursing faculty and nursing preceptors.




HRSA Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Grant Program 7/1/23 – 6/30/27

TITLE: uNParalleled Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Training Program

Aim 1: Support four new primary care nurse practitioners annually through the expansion and enhancement of the existing uNParalleled Fellowship Program.

Aim 2: Strengthen the knowledge, skills and attitudes of new primary care NPs through didactic and clinical training to provide care for the complex co-morbidities and multi-level chronic health and social needs of Nebraska urban, rural, and tribal underserved communities.

Aim 3: Increase access to quality primary care providers through the placement of fellowship completers in rural, urban, and tribal underserved community-based settings.

Aim 4: Enhance academic practice partnerships to provide learning opportunities which integrate primary care, behavioral health and maternal health domains of practice as well as promote health equity, improve diversity of the workforce to address the needs of the populations they serve, and address workforce wellness and resiliency.

Aim 5: Continue a comprehensive evaluation plan to assure that we are meeting the needs of the NP Fellows, the clinics, and the patients served and to meet the standards to attain and maintain CCNE NP fellowship/residency accreditation.