Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship (ANE-NPRF) Program

Background
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Advanced Nursing Education-Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship (ANE-NPRF) Program. The purpose of this program is to prepare new Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) to effectively provide primary care by supporting transition to practice through the establishment, expansion and/or enhancement of existing community-based Nurse Practitioner (NP) residency and fellowship training programs that are accredited or in the accreditation process.

The program also focuses on the integration of behavioral health and/or maternal health into primary care by training new primary care providers (adult, family, adult gerontology, pediatric and women’s health NPs), behavioral health providers (psychiatric/mental health NPs) and/or certified nurse midwives (CNMs) in community-based settings. The applicant must train these postgraduate APRNs who will serve in primary care settings with a focus on improving access to quality healthcare for rural, urban, and tribal underserved populations.

Grant Details
The program goals include supporting expansion or enhancement of primary care NP residency programs, increasing the number of new primary care, behavioral health and maternal health NPs serving in rural, urban, and tribal underserved community-based settings, and integrating behavioral health and maternal health care into community-based primary care NP residency programs.

The program objectives are to support new primary care providers through the establishment, expansion, or enhancement of NP residency programs in community-based settings; strengthen the clinical competency and readiness for practice of new primary care NPs through didactic and clinical training; increase access to quality primary care providers through the placement of residency completers in rural, urban, and tribal underserved community-based settings; expand academic practice partnerships to provide learning opportunities which integrate primary care, behavioral health and maternal health domains of practice.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible entities are accredited schools of nursing, nursing centers (nurse managed health clinics/centers), academic health centers, state or local governments and other nonprofit private or public entities determined appropriate by the HHS Secretary.

Domestic community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations are also eligible to apply if otherwise eligible.

Period of Performance
The period of performance is from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2027 (4 years).

Grant Value
The total available funding for FY 2023 is approximately $30,012,998 with an estimated number of 43 grants.

The annual award amount can be up to $700,000 per award subject to the availability of appropriated funds.

Place of Performance
Eligible applicants located in the 50 states of the U.S., the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau may apply for these funds.