Mercy College gets $252K nursing grant
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From Mercy College…
Mercy College has been awarded the largest Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant in its history. As the nation struggles with a critical shortage of nurses and nurse educators, Mercy College will help to increase the number of nurse educators prepared to assume faculty positions in nursing schools with this funding.
Largest HRSA award made to Mercy College. The one-year federal grant of $252,742 is the largest HRSA award made to Mercy College since first receiving this grant in 2003. With this funding, awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, the Mercy College Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) will provide financial support through loans for registered nurses enrolled in the college’s Master of Science in Nursing/Nursing Education program, an advanced degree program which prepares nurse educators to contribute to the advancement of nursing care through teaching. By educating future nursing faculty, Mercy College is increasing opportunities for students to attend nursing school, thereby addressing the nursing shortage.
“We are proud to receive this largest-ever HRSA grant. It speaks to Mercy College’s relevance in today’s higher education landscape: we are focused on providing degree programs that meet the needs of the local community and the nation,” says Mercy College President Dr. Kimberly R. Cline.
“These funds will help make a graduate degree a reality for many fine students and contribute to solving the urgent need for nurse educators that our country is now facing,” says Mercy College Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Michael B. Sperling.
Supporting the mission. “The availability of HRSA grants for our students supports Mercy’s mission to actively address the nursing shortage in the state and throughout the country,” says Dean of the School of Health and Natural Sciences Dr. Patricia M. Chute. She adds, “It is a credit to the staff and faculty in Mercy’s nursing program to have received this record amount of support.”
Mercy College’s School of Health and Natural Sciences offers master degree nursing programs in nursing education and nursing administration, as well as post-graduate certificate programs in nursing education and nursing administration. These programs prepare the professional nurse to improve health care by developing client-centered nursing services through advanced practice, critical analysis, scientific inquiry, and the utilization of nursing theory. Enrollment in Mercy College’s graduate nursing programs has increased by 62 percent and has increased by 36 percent in its undergraduate nursing programs from spring 2007 to spring 2009.
For more information about the nursing education and nursing administration programs, please contact Jaime Bivona, director of recruitment and operations at 914.674.1170 or jbivona@mercy.edu
The Nurse Faculty Loan fund was created by the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, to increase the number of qualified nurse faculty. Recipients of the nurse faculty loan funds may be eligible to have up to 85% of their loan forgiven while serving as a full-time nurse faculty member at a school of nursing.
About Mercy College
Mercy College is a private, nonprofit institution founded in 1950, providing motivated students with the opportunity to earn degrees in more than 90 undergraduate and programs
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