UIC College of Nursing awarded $3.1 million HRSA grant Heading link
The UIC College of Nursing has been awarded a $3.1 million Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) ENRICH grant (Enhancing Nursing Education and Retention by Initiation of Care Delivered by Mobile Health Units) to run a mobile health unit for underserved teens in Illinois.
This mobile health unit will operate in disadvantaged rural and urban areas of Illinois, and provide services to improve teen health and well-being, including reproductive health services such as well visits, screening for sexually transmitted diseases, and contraceptive management. The mobile health unit will also provide point-of-care tests for pregnancy and reproductive health.
Kelly Rosenberger quote Heading link
Nursing students will benefit from valuable hands-on experiences that will greatly improve access and quality of care for underserved rural high school teens.
| Principal Investigator, ENRICH grant
Enhancing clinical training Heading link
In addition to providing needed services to teens, the mobile unit program will have the dual purpose of providing clinical training to Doctor of Nursing Practice students, as well as other students at UIC Nursing’s six urban and rural campuses.
Dr. Kelly Rosenberger, the principal investigator for the ENRICH grant states that “Nursing students will benefit from valuable hands-on experiences that will greatly improve access and quality of care for underserved rural high school teens”. Nurse practitioners training in the ENRICH mobile health program will include family nurse practitioners, pediatric primary care nurse practitioners, women’s health nurse practitioners and nurse midwives.