Public Health Nurse Leaders Program

Posted by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on March 16, 2015

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is accepting applications to its Public Health Nurse Leaders Program.

When PHNLs have the leadership skills to develop and implement community-based strategies to improve the health of the population, build partnerships with key stakeholders in organizations and communities, and influence organizational, state and federal policy, they become effective changemakers with respect to building a Culture of Health in their communities and across America. Since PHNLs participate in partnerships across all sectors and disciplines that lead to collaborative action, PHNLs can leverage new and existing opportunities for even healthier communities.

The two-year leadership development program aims to cultivate a group of senior-level PHNLs with the capacity to lead individuals, organizations, and communities in building partnerships around the foundation’s Culture of Health strategy. Another aim of the program is to integrate public health nurse leaders and their work in integrating a Culture of Health into the existing state action coalitions (ACs) assembled by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, a project backed by the foundation and AARP.

The campaign is a national initiative to guide implementation of the recommendations in The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, a landmark Institute of Medicine report. The campaign’s vision is that everyone in America can live a healthier life if supported by a system in which nurses are essential partners in providing care and promoting health. The campaign includes fifty-one state ACs and a wide range of healthcare providers, consumer advocates, and policymakers, as well as leaders from the business, academic, and philanthropic sectors.

The program’s vision is that collaborating with ACs will give PHNLs the network and opportunity to share and influence more population-based services, such as policymaking, surveillance, and advocacy, by using their experience in clinical prevention, changing healthcare policy, finance and regulatory environments, and interprofessional collaboration. In return, the ACs will gain public health expertise. PHNLs also will gain an immediate network of key influencers through connections to their state AC.

In 2015, the program will fund the leadership development of up to twenty-four PHNLs over two years, a value of over $40,000 each. PHNLs also will have access to $5,000 for additional individual leadership development or travel. Partnering action coalitions will receive $5,000 in unrestricted funds for their participation in this collaboration.

Public Health Nurse Leader awards are open to registered nurses currently serving in a leadership position with a public health organization.

The online application will be available February 18, 2015. A PHNL applicant web conference will be held on March 9 at 1:00 p.m. EST and a Collaborating ACs applicant web conference will be held on March 9 at 2:30 p.m. ET.

DEADLINE: APRIL 17, 2015

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