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Eligibility Criteria for Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program Now Available

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The Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program

Purpose

The goal of the Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program is to increase the number of doctorally prepared faculty available to teach in nursing schools nationwide, as advocated by the Institute of Medicine’s recent report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Supported by the Jonas Family Fund at the Jewish Communal Fund, the program will provide financial assistance, leadership development, and mentoring support to expand the pipeline of future nurse faculty into research-focused and practice-focused doctoral nursing programs.

The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence will provide selected nursing students in doctoral programs with $10,000 in financial support, to be distributed in $5,000 installments for each of the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years.  The institution in which the student is enrolled will match the financial support amount and distribution schedule. In addition, schools will provide support for Scholars to attend a Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence/American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) leadership development conference in Washington, DC in fall 2013. At least one scholarship will be awarded for each state.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, the academic institution must meet the following criteria:

  • Applications will be accepted from academic institutions with research-focused doctorate (PhD or DNS) nursing programs from all states. Applications from practice focused doctorate (DNP) nursing programs will be accepted from the following states only:  AL, DC, KS, ME, MS, MT, NV, ND, OK, SC, SD, UT, WV, and WY.
  • Institutions must provide evidence of a $10,000 funding match; $5,000 for each of the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years. In addition, the academic institution must provide up to $2,500 in financial support for the Scholar to attend the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence/AACN leadership development conference in October 2013. External funding sources are strongly recommended.

To be eligible, the potential Scholar must meet the following criteria:

  • Be committed to career as faculty (PhD or DNS) or leader in primary care and clinical faculty (DNP).
  • Agree to attend the Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program orientation webinar in August/September 2012.
  • Agree to attend the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence/AACN leadership development conference in Washington, DC in October 2013.
  • Agree to complete and present a leadership project, which may include an online presentation, poster presentation at the leadership conference, journal article, or similar scholarly effort.
  • Agree to work with a designated mentor with the purpose of ensuring progress through the program of study and receiving guidance in leadership development.
  • Agree to maintain communication with the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence and AACN. The purpose of the communications will be to monitor student progress, receive feedback on leadership experiences, and provide additional mentoring or support to assure student success in the program.

Selection Criteria

The following factors will be considered in the selection process:

  • Evidence of commitment to leadership development of the Scholar and description of plan for leadership development.
  • Evidence for availability of a qualified mentor and description of mentoring plan.
  • Evidence of commitment to ensuring a fit between the student research interest and the faculty mentor’s research interest. The selection committee will work to ensure that a broad spectrum of nursing research topics are addressed by Scholars receiving support.
  • Agree to provide evidence of Scholar progress through biannual reports.

Preference will be given to those applicants that:

  • Expand enrollment through the addition of the Scholar (creation of a new slot).
  • Plan to award the scholarship to a BSN to PhD/DNP student that is matriculated in a doctoral program
  • Place student from state without doctoral program (AK, ID, NH and VT).
  • Demonstrate commitment to increase diversity in nursing.

Call for applications will be posted online in early September 2011.

CONTACT

Laura Petri, PhD, RN-BC
Director of Faculty Programs
lpetri@aacn.nche.edu
202-463-6930, ext. 270

Courtney Geanetta
Program Assistant 
cgeanetta@aacn.nche.edu
202-463-6930, ext. 230