Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program
Program Overview
Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program
The Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program is designed to address the primary care shortage in Utah by creating partnerships between University of Utah Health and underserved communities. The program aims to increase rural and urban underserved training opportunities for graduate nursing students, enhancing clinical capacity and ensuring that more nurse practitioners and certified nurse-midwives are ready to deliver high-quality primary care.
Program Description
The ANEW Program trains, supports, and evaluates primary care preceptors who are nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives in rural settings. Primary care graduate students are prepared to practice with confidence in those settings. Upon graduation, the program helps graduates find employment in rural and underserved communities.
Program Objectives
The program has the following objectives:
- Increase the number of rural clinical training sites for students.
- Train, support, and evaluate primary care advance-practice nursing clinical preceptors in rural communities.
- Prepare primary care advance-practice nursing students to practice with confidence in rural settings.
- Connect advance-practice nursing graduates with employment in rural and underserved communities.
Program Information
The program provides the following support to trainees:
- Up to $22,750 in stipend funds per year for up to two years in the program.
- Recipients may be eligible for a tuition reduction.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the program, students must:
- Be admitted to the College of Nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program.
- Be a current second-year or third-year student pursuing one of the following tracks:
- Family
- Nurse-Midwifery
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatric/Mental Health
- Women's Health
Grant Funding Availability
Funding is available between July 2023 and June 2027.
Application Details
Approximately 20 slots are available each year. Students may re-apply the following year if not awarded funds initially.
Program Benefits
The program prioritizes enrollment of nurses in rural communities into the family, gerontology, women’s health, and nurse-midwifery tracks. Grant funds support ANEW trainees accepted to the College of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program, and ANEW trainees also receive significant tuition discounts. The program recruits advance-practice nursing students who, upon graduation, will pursue their nursing careers in rural areas of America.