Faculty Development: Integrated Technology into Nursing Education & Practice Initiative

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Faculty Development: Integrated Technology into Nursing Education & Practice Initiative: Title VIII, Section 831 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended by the Nurse Reinvestment Act of 2002, Public Law 107-205 authorizes projects to provide education in new technologies, including distance-learning methodologies. The purpose of this request is to solicit applications for nursing collaboratives that will partner with the government using a Cooperative Agreement mechanism for the Faculty Development: Integrated Technology into Nursing Education and Practice Initiative (Faculty Development: ITNEP). The Faculty Development: ITNEP initiative will provide support to nursing collaboratives for faculty development in the use of information and other technologies in order to expand the capacity of schools of nursing to educate students for 21st century health care practice. Nursing collaboratives will use healthcare information systems to enhance nursing education and practice, optimize patient safety, and drive improvements in health care quality. For this initiative, use of information and other technologies in nursing education and practice, includes, but is not limited to, informatics, telehealth, mannequin-based and patient simulators, computer-based instructions, virtual simulation, interactive simulated case studies, advanced 3D graphics, e-Learning technology, and other simulated or virtual methods to enhance nursing education and practice. Since no institution or organization currently offers the full spectrum of information and other technologies necessary to carry out this initiative, the nursing collaboratives must develop linkages and partnerships to undertake this initiative. The nursing collaboratives will offer state-of-the-art training sites for nursing faculty in information and other technologies. These state-of-the-art training sites will have the capability to provide virtual reality and real-time training to faculty members in the full range of relevant technologies. The nursing collaboratives will promote the awareness of the latest simulated learning, informatics, and telehealth trends, advances, and issues. The nursing collaboratives will develop an innovative faculty development plan designed to enhance faculty knowledge and skills in the use of simulated learning, informatics, and telehealth in order to integrate information and other technologies into nursing education and practice.