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Veteran Affairs Nursing Academic Partnership (VANAP) Programs - Graduate Education 

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (NHWSN) is answering the call to prepare nurses to care for our Nation’s heroes, a part of nursing’s history that extends as far back as Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War. NHWSN has two designated, competitively selected, VA Nursing Academic Partnership (VANAP) programs for undergraduate and graduate education. These prestigious awards through the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs are designed to prepare a nursing workforce to address the complex and unique health care needs of Veterans across the continuum of care. The VA is the largest employer of nurses and advanced practice nurses and leads in full practice authority for nurse practitioners, practice innovation, and research. 

The VANAP programs represent an academic-practice partnership between NHWSN and the Atlanta VA Health Care system where a select cohort of scholars received a robust and interprofessional education with small faculty-student ratios. The Atlanta VA Health System offers premier programs, numerous community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs), and specialty clinics. VANAP graduates are well positioned for the VA Post Baccalaureate Nurse Residency program, VA Transition to Practice Program, and the VANAP-GE NP Residency program. 

VANAP in Graduate Education: 

  • Students accepted into the Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program and Family Nurse Practitioner program are eligible to apply. 

  • Clinical experiences are enhanced by grand rounds, seminars, scientific meetings, and leadership opportunities. 

  • Learn with state-of-the-art technology. 

Emory Nursing’s Mobile Opportunities for Training and Innovating: Nursing (Emory In MOTION) 

Emory In MOTION will admit ten students to the program each year from the MSN (FNP, AGPCNP tracks) and BSN programs. Students receive aid in the form of a $2000 scholarship each semester as well as a stipend for participation in the FWFHP Program each summer in Moultrie, GA. 

The goal of Emory In MOTION is to enrich nursing education for nurse-led collaborative care in vulnerable and underserved communities, while also strengthening the nursing workforce. This is achieved by increasing opportunities for longitudinal experiential learning in mobile health settings, which in turn improves health outcomes and promotes greater health equity for these underserved communities throughout Georgia. 

Emory In MOTION aims to extend mobile healthcare services, particularly to nine counties in Georgia that have limited access to medical care. Each mobile health unit is fully equipped to deliver high-quality healthcare under the guidance of nurses. This four-year project builds upon Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing’s established partnerships with community-based and public health organizations in the metro Atlanta area and Moultrie, Georgia. Collaborative care teams formed through these partnerships will offer innovative opportunities for diverse nursing students to be trained by faculty to provide quality care that engages patients with cultural and linguistic sensitivity. 

Goals: 

  • Emory In MOTION aims to expand mobile healthcare services to nine medically underserved counties in Georgia. 

  • The collaboration involves the use of mobile health units equipped with nurse-led, quality healthcare services. 

  • The program provides a clinical experiential platform for 28 pre-licensure and 12 advanced practice nursing students. 

  • Nursing students from various programs will work together to increase the number of patients served in these communities by 20 percent. 

  • Emory in MOTION will also implement web-based professional development modules on social determinants of health to be shared with faculty, preceptors, and registered nurses in Georgia.