The Invest in Nursing grant has had great success over the past three years in the partnership between UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing and Piedmont Health Services, Inc., with three cohorts of Student Scholars from UNC Chapel Hill, and with three cohorts of Faculty Fellows from across the State of North Carolina. This program is a time-limited grant funded opportunity, provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration, and will no longer continue programming in this current iteration after the 2021-2022 cohort year. It is our hope that other educational entities will use Invest in Nursing as a blueprint for implementing similar programming. Reach Out

Faculty Fellows

Invest in Nursing is excited to announce the selection of eight Faculty Fellows for our third cohort. These nurse faculty members hold positions at schools of nursing from across the state of North Carolina. The fellowship is a one-year program consisting of on-site visits, distance-based workshops, resources, and an innovative educational project. There will be a combination of group instruction, experiential workshops, networking, and mentorship opportunities aimed at improving the knowledge skills and abilities of nurse faculty around leadership development, relationship-building, understanding self and others, as well as improving educational excellence for research and scholarship.

Invest in Nursing Faculty Fellows 2021-2022

Tammy Hall MSN, RN, RDMS
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Darlene Hicks, RN, BSN, DNP
North Carolina Central University
Hope Hubbard, RN, MSN
Watts College or Nursing
Caitlin Lofton, MSN, RN, CEN
Pfeiffer University
Rachel McInerney, DNP, FNP-BC
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Emily Nishiyama, BSN, MSN
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Tamika Thrasher, RN, CNE, DNP
Winston Salem State University
Jaimee Watts Isley, DNP, APRN
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill