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FAU Receives $1.4 Million Federal Grant for Nurse Practitioners

to Care for Underserved Broward County Residents

Nurse practitioners (NPs) can Hospital, and Nurse Practice (BSN-DNP), Program vised practicum experiences providing
help meet the rising demand for Broward Community Family (FNP) and Adult Gerontologic care for underserved populations.
health care due to older popula- and Family Health Nurse Practitioner (AGNP) students. During their last two practicum semes-
tion growth, especially in Centers, Inc. to train “Together with our outstanding partners ters, BSN to DNP students will work
underserved populations. They and ultimately and my collaborators from the Christine E. with faculty and practice partners to
are highly skilled and educated employ NPs who will Lynn College of Nursing, we will co-create develop a DNP project focused on
clinicians dedicated to improv- care for patients in culturally and linguistically appropriate improving a specific health outcome or
ing public health through a Broward County’s learning experiences for BSN to DNP stu- outcomes affecting target populations in
wide range of primary care serv- underserved popula- dents in primary care settings with their practice sites.
ices, providing a holistic tions. Broward patients from disadvantaged, underserved, “We are very grateful to HRSA for pro-
approach that combines culture County has a total racial and minority populations in viding us with this important grant,
and community. population of more Broward County,” said Susan Bulfin, DNP, which is truly a testament to the vital
Florida Atlantic University’s than 1.9 million, and ARNP, FNP-BC, program director, associ- work that Drs. Bulfin, Edwards and
Christine E. Lynn College of Dr. Susan Bulfin the U.S. Census ate professor and DNP director in FAU’s Dunphy are conducting to create a work-
Nursing is playing a key role in Bureau estimates that College of Nursing. force of trainee graduates who will
ensuring that South Florida has Blacks represent 29.7 Bulfin’s collaborators on the REEP are emerge as competent nurse practitioners
an adequate workforce of NPs. The percent of its population while Hispanics Karethy Edwards, Dr.P.H., APRN, FNP- who will provide quality primary care for
College has received a $1.4 million grant represent 28.7 percent of its population BC, a professor and associate dean of aca- those they are privileged to serve,” said
from the United States Department of (2016). demic programs, and Lynne Dunphy, Marlaine Smith, Ph.D., dean of FAU’s
Health and Human Services, Health Through the Advanced Nursing Ph.D., FNP-BC, a professor and associate College of Nursing. “Our faculty are
Resources and Services Administration Education Workforce Program of HRSA, dean for practice and community engage- known for their work in health equity,
(HRSA), for an evidence-based curriculum FAU’s “Recruitment, Education, and ment, both in FAU’s College of Nursing. holistic health, transforming practice
to prepare NPs to deliver relevant, cultur- Employment of Primary Care Providers” Implementation of the REEP will environments, and healthy aging.
ally competent, and skilled primary care (REEP) project will support academic involve critical linkages between academia Our graduates also have assumed lead-
services for underserved populations in partnerships and traineeships to nurses and practice and will operate through key ership positions in many primary care
Broward County. who are pursuing advanced degrees as pri- personnel that include a project director, practice environments, increasing the
FAU’s College of Nursing has estab- mary care NPs. This workforce project project coordinator, practice liaisons and supply of nurses to positively impact
lished new academic and practice partner- provides advanced education traineeships clinical preceptors. Clinical immersion Healthy People 2020 Objectives for the
ships with Broward Health, Holy Cross for the Bachelor of Science to the Doctor of will occur over five semesters of super- Nation.”

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