Faculty Submit Application to HRSA
<p>Congratulations to Cristina Hendrix, associate professor, Benjamin Smallheer, assistant professor, Mary Affronti, professor, and Brigit Carter, associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion, and their teams for their proposed project titled Diverse AGNPs for Diverse Elders (DiADE).</p>
Congratulations to Cristina Hendrix, associate professor, Benjamin Smallheer, assistant professor, Mary Affronti, professor, and Brigit Carter, associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion, and their teams for their proposed project titled Diverse AGNPs for Diverse Elders (DiADE), which they submitted to the HRSA.
The proposed project will increase and strengthen a diverse advanced practice nursing workforce in caring for elders in rural and underserved areas. It will accomplish two goals: first, to promote nursing workforce diversity by recruiting and supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities to attend and successfully complete the AGNP-AC or AGNP-PC at Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON). DUSON’s successful implementation of the Health Equity Academy (HEA), a HRSA-funded workforce diversity for undergraduate nursing students, provides substantial leverage to DiADE’s development of a comprehensive program that combines social support, academic support and financial support to students. Second, to enhance competency in elder care by offering a directed scholarship course entitled Contemporary Issues in Geriatrics. This course will provide enhanced training in elder care that addresses contemporary issues and priorities of care for diverse elders who are medically underserved or living in rural areas. The course will also include innovative technology training in telehealth that promotes access of services regardless of elder location or situations that may prevent travel such as what recently occurred due to the COVID-19 mandatory quarantine. By accomplishing these two primary goals, DiADE provides an effective and sustainable model for increasing diversity in nursing workforce with enhanced training to address health care needs of elderly populations in rural and medically underserved areas. The proposed project addresses the following HHS’s and HRSA’s clinical priorities: transforming the workforce by targeting the need and strengthening health care access through telehealth.
This proposal requests one million dollars for a two-year period with a start date of September 1, 2020.