UND and North Dakota State University will receive more than $800,000 in federal grants to promote advanced nursing education and increase diversity in nursing programs, North Dakota’s congressional delegation announced Friday.
A Nursing Workforce Diversity grant for $515,631 will be awarded to UND, and NDSU will receive an Advanced Education Nursing Grant for $311,349. The grants were awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
In a joint statement, Sens. Kent Conrad and John Hoeven and Rep. Rick Berg said it’s important to focus on “educating and recruiting the next generation of health care providers†in order to maintain high-quality health care at the state’s medical facilities.
“These grants work toward this goal by promoting advanced education for nurses such as master’s and doctoral degrees and by increasing nursing opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds,†they wrote.
The grant funding was appropriated by Congress.
