WesternU Receives $2.5 Million Grant for Nurse Practitioner, PA Training
WesternU's College of Graduate Nursing and College of Health Sciences received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to create the WesternU Integrated Substance Abuse Training Program (WISTP).
- WesternU's College of Graduate Nursing and College of Health Sciences received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to create the WesternU Integrated Substance Abuse Training Program (WISTP).
- WISTP is designed as a one-year, limited employment, transition-to-practice training program for nationally-certified nurse practitioners and PAs.
- "In today's environment, there is the need to have a primary care provider with expert knowledge of the substance abuse continuum.
- The program augments what the PA trainee learned in basic education and allows them to be full members of the health care team."