NURSING EDUCATION


OVERVIEW


OAA recognizes that nurses need advanced skills to treat complex health needs, especially during a national nursing shortage. The Post-Baccalaureate Registered Nurse Residency is a robust competency/based curriculum aligned with the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) accreditation standards. The Nurse Practitioner Residency program focuses on primary care and mental health, the areas most affected by the current shortage of qualified providers. Full-year residencies are delivered in collaboration with VA-affiliated schools of nursing.


48 PB-RNR programs


OAA FUNDS 107 NURSE RESIDENCY PROGRAMS


59 NPR programs


25 Mental Health


34 Primary Care


Date: As of July 2021


OAA will add 28 new nurse residency programs, providing one year of intensive training to prepare 550 highly skilled Nurse Practitioners and Post-Baccalaureate Registered Nurses, in Academic Year 2021–2022.


The programs, designed for bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral prepared RN and NP graduates, include 14 new Post-Baccalaureate Registered Nurse Residency (PB-RNR) programs, 10 Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Residency (NPR) programs and four Mental Health NPR programs. Since 2018, VA has expanded nurse residency programs from 17 to 107 programs.


With 11.1% of VA’s 73,000 RNs and 15.1% of VA NPs currently eligible for retirement, nursing residencies are critical to fully preparing recent graduates for their roles in primary care, mental health and specialty areas. Over 90% of VA nurse residents go on to permanent VA employment.


14 OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS ACHIEVEMENTS


Current programs include: VA Nursing Academic Partnership Undergraduate and Graduate Education, Post-Baccalaureate Nurse Residency (PBNR), Nurse Practitioner Residency (NPR), Advanced Fellowships in Nursing and numerous Nursing pre- degree training programs.


25,000+


Nursing trainees at VA each year


Nurse residency expansions since 2018


74 100%


Protected learning time during program


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