American Nurses Foundation

The RN Initiative will award up to $15 million in grants to as many as eleven innovative pilot programs that equip nurses with leading-edge knowledge, tools, environments, and systems to deliver exemplary care. Pilot programs should address one or more of the following priorities that capture the key dimensions of the nursing profession: capability, quality, and reach:

• Practice-Ready Nurse Graduates: Efforts to support innovations in competency validation and clinical preceptorship that ensure newly graduated nurses can immediately contribute to and succeed in a continuously transforming health delivery system.
• Technology-Enabled Nursing Practice: Efforts to support the design and implementation of technology-based tactics and tools designed by nurses and for nurses that meaningfully enhance the practice of nursing.
• Direct-Reimbursement Nursing Models: Efforts to expand nursing practice opportunities and elevate the value of nursing through direct reimbursement for nursing care delivery, management, and coordination outcomes.