The initiative announced today is part of an ongoing effort to grow the nursing workforce and should be considered a starting point in The HHS and Biden administration’s commitment to developing the country’s health workforce, according to Johnson.
Some of the awards aim to remove financial barrers for pursuing healthcare education by providing tuition assistance, child support, or partial educational loan forgiveness to qualifying awardees. Other awards offer more intensive training opportunities for registered nurses, including a nurse practitioner residency program, that is similar to the model used to train physicians, and a nurse anesthetist traineeship.
