Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA’s) webinar regarding changes in the Division of Nursing programs funding for FY2012 explained the Advanced Nursing Education (ANE) and the Nursing, Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Programs have both returned their focus on Education and Practice. The Bureau of Health Professions described ANE will ensure an “inter-professional collaborative” with professional nursing being a priority.

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As Federal agencies throughout the country prepared for a government shutdown, negotiators from the White House, Speaker’s and the Senate Majority Leader’s offices met to hammer out a deal to advert the shutdown. As the countdown clock to a government shutdown went into the final minutes, the parties finally came to an agreement over the 2011 Fiscal Year Budget. On April 15th, President Obama signed into law the final continuing resolution (CR) for Fiscal Year 2011.

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Before leaving for the campaign trail, both the House (228-194) and Senate (69-30) cleared a temporary funding measure (Continuing Resolution-CR) which will sustain most government operations at current, FY 2010 levels through December 3.

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On September 17, Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced new grants totaling $130.8 million to support the health professions. The largest portion, $50.5 million, is for equipment to train healthcare professionals at educational institutions which serve underserved and uninsured patients. Grants supporting family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatrics programs and physician assistants total $42.2 million. Oral health grants of $23.9 million for dental education and training include $4.3 million for 9 state programs for underserved areas (rural and urban).

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In early March, Reps. Lois Capps, RN (D-CA) and Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) circulated a letter in the U.S. House of Representatives supporting $267.3 million in FY 2011 appropriations for the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development programs. A bipartisan group of 93 members of the House of Representatives signed the final Capps/LoBiondo letter, which was delivered to the House Appropriations Committee on March 19.

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The Division of Nursing at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released on November 11, information on the fiscal year 2010 funding opportunity for the Nurse Education, Practice and Retention (NEPR) Program.

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