Health Workforce Programs

Purpose: Increase the number of primary care nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse midwives trained and prepared to provide primary care services, mental health and substance use disorder care, and/or maternal health care. Awardees will provide tuition and other eligible supports to trainees, build academic-clinical partnerships to facilitate clinical training, and continue to develop and sustain clinical faculty and preceptors.

Purpose: Prepare new nurse practitioners in primary care for practice in community-based settings through clinical- and academic-focused 12-month nurse practitioner residency programs, with a preference for those projects that benefit rural or underserved populations.

Discover HRSA's Advanced Nursing Education Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (ANE-SANE) program, training nurses to care for survivors of sexual assault.

Purpose: Prepare new advanced practice registered nurses to effectively provide primary care by supporting the establishment, expansion, and/or enhancement of existing community-based nurse practitioner residency and fellowship training programs that are accredited or in the accreditation process.

The program focuses on the integration of behavioral health and/or maternal health into primary care by training new primary care providers, behavioral health providers, and/or certified nurse midwives to transition from education completion to practice in community-based settings.

Purpose: Prepare new primary care or behavioral health nurse practitioners to work in integrated, community-based settings.

Read about HRSA's Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW), supporting advanced nursing education programs for registered nurses preparing to become primary care nurse practitioners, primary care clinical nurse specialists, and nurse midwives.

Explore HRSA's Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program, improving healthcare access by training and supporting health professionals in underserved areas.

Purpose: Support accredited nurse midwifery programs to train nurse midwives to grow and diversify the maternal and perinatal health nursing workforce in rural and underserved communities.

Purpose: Increase the supply and distribution of certified registered nurse anesthetists who are prepared and well positioned to practice independently and collaboratively within interprofessional teams and to deliver evidence-based, high-quality, and safe anesthesia and pain management services. The program aims to expand access to anesthesia services, especially to rural, urban, and tribal underserved communities nationwide.

Purpose: Support the creation of academies, consisting of academic-clinical-community partnerships, that develop and implement formal nurse education training curriculum used to train clinical nursing faculty and preceptors.