Deadline:

Jan 23, 2009 - Closed

Program Area:

Building Human Capital

Purpose:

Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education will evaluate models, programs and innovations that expand teaching capacity or promote faculty recruitment and retention in nursing schools. The program aims to increase the number of nursing school graduates by evaluating strategies that address the nurse faculty shortage and disseminating successful strategies so they can be replicated in other nursing education settings.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals


• Overview (PDF)

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

• Nursing schools or health care organizations who will act as the applicant institution and sub-contract to the evaluation team. Preference will be given to applicant organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a). Please note that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation makes grants to organizations in the United States and U.S. territories only.
• Each applicant organization must arrange to sub-contract with an experienced evaluator (not affiliated with the primary applicant department) to assess the intervention.
• Proposed interventions must be ongoing and have the potential to significantly increase teaching capacity, improve faculty work-life, and/or promote faculty recruitment and retention. Interventions must include a large enough population (i.e., faculty, students, courses) to permit precise determination of their impact on important outcomes.
• A maximum of one grant will be awarded per applicant institution.

Selection Criteria

Proposals will be evaluated using the following criteria:

• Presentation of a logic model/theory of change through which the intervention will improve teaching capacity, faculty work-life and/or faculty recruitment and retention.
• Preliminary evidence of the intervention’s effectiveness.
• Strong evaluation design for isolating the impact of the intervention.
• Selection of appropriate outcomes for assessing the intervention’s success and access to data for measuring them.
• Demonstrated commitment of key stakeholders to fully implement the intervention and cooperate with all aspects of the evaluation study.
• The expertise and relevant experience of the evaluation team.

Key Dates:

• November 21 and December 2, 2008—Optional applicant Web conferences. Registration is required. Visit program Web site for details.   
• January 23, 2009—Deadline for receipt of brief proposals.
• March 13–May 1, 2009—Technical assistance (to refine the evaluation design) for those invited to submit a full proposal.
• May 1, 2009—Applicants notified if invited to submita full proposal.
• June 12, 2009—Deadline for receipt of full proposals.
• November 2009—Notification of awards.

Total Award:

Up to nine awards of up to $300,000 each will be available in this round of funding.

Contact:

Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
info@evaluatinginnovationsinnursing.org
Office: (732) 932-4670
http://www.evaluatinginnovationsinnursing.org

Related Materials:

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