Eligability Criteria 

Eligibility:

• Applicants must be an accredited nursing school with graduate programs committed to working in partnership with other health and non-health related professional schools and a community-based clinical partner.
• Applicants must partner with at least one other professional school (health or non-health) and a community-based clinical site.
• The principal investigator must be a faculty member in a nursing school/program, based in the United States or its territories.
• Proposals that demonstrate existing interprofessional relationships that will be accelerated by this funding are encouraged.

16 projects were selected based on the following criteria:

• Creativity of the initiative and its potential to accelerate interprofessional collaborative practice in community settings

• Extent to which the proposed initiative will foster learner development in the IPEC core competencies

• Degree to which the initiative is threaded through the participating program(s) curricula

• Demonstrated collaboration with the community partners, including how the initiative meets the community needs

• Demonstrated involvement of at least 20% of the students from each participating program.

• Extent to which the proposed student involvement will change the learning culture of the participating programs and promote “spread” of the initiative efforts within and across the participating schools.

• Demonstrated commitment to sustainability of the initiative and/or continued collaboration of the schools and the community after funding ends

• Demonstrated commitment from community organization to this initiative

• Demonstrated linkage with Future of Nursing: State Action Coalition

• Demonstrated commitment from faculty, school administration (deans) and university administration (provost/president)

• Demonstrated commitment to working with an independent evaluation team

• Demonstrated commitment of a cash match.

Selection Process:

• The National Center screened applications and forwarded those that meet the selection criteria to a national advisory council for review.

• Based upon national advisory council recommendations, the National Center selected finalists.

• Recipients were notified September 20, 2016.