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Grant funding is used to prepare RN-to-Bachelor of Science in Nursing students and practicing nurses at UMSON's partner institutions with advanced knowledge and skills in care coordination.
A good deal of the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s (UMSON) energy is focused on building collaborations between education and practice, developing pathways for new and experienced nurses both to succeed as a member of the ever-growing nursing workforce and to contribute to improving patient outcomes when they step outside of the classroom (whether physical or virtual).
Many of these efforts are undertaken with the University of Maryland Medical System and especially the University of Maryland Medical Center, UMSON’s practice partner just across Lombard Street.
In 2016, Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD ’03, RN, FAAN, professor and director of UMSON’s Nursing Informatics Master of Science in Nursing and certificate programs, and Nina Trocky, DNP, RN, NE-BC, CNE, associate professor and then-associate dean for the baccalaureate program, received a more than $250,000, three-year Nurse Support Program II planning grant, funded by the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission and administered by the Maryland Higher Education Commission, that aimed to prepare RN-to-Bachelor of Science in Nursing graduates with advanced knowledge and skills in care coordination supported by health information technology.