Deadline:

Nov 24, 2009

Program Area:

Building Human Capital

Purpose:

Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education (EIN) will support evaluations of interventions 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. An important activity of the program will be disseminating successful strategies so they can be replicated in other nursing education settings.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals


• Overview (PDF)

How to Apply:

*Please read the call for proposals before applying.

• Apply Online.

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

• Nursing schools or health care organizations who will act as the applicant institution and subcontract to the evaluation team are eligible. We will give preference 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: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation makes grants to organizations in the United States and its territories only.
• Each applicant organization must arrange to subcontract with an experienced evaluator who is not affiliated with the primary applicant department/school to assess the intervention. The evaluator can be from a different department at the same institution.
• 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 and courses) to permit precise determination of their impact on important outcomes.
• We will award a maximum of one grant per applicant institution.

We will evaluate proposals using the following criteria:

• Presentation of a logic model demonstrating that 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 intervention’s impact.
• 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.
• Well-qualified evaluation team with appropriate expertise for conducting the study.

Key Dates:

• October 5 and October 26, 2009—Optional applicant Web conferences. Registration is required. See program Web site for details.
• November 24, 2009—Deadline for receipt of brief proposals.
• January 20–March 19, 2010—Technical assistance (to refine the evaluation design) for those applicants selected on the basis of their brief proposal review.
• March 19, 2010—Applicants notified if invited to submit a full proposal.
• April 23, 2010—Deadline for receipt of full proposals.
• July 2010—Notification of awards.

Total Award:

• A total of $4.2 million will be available over the next three years.
• Up to 10 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

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