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 PUBLIC LAW 94-63—JULY 29, 1975 "(d) For payments under grants and contracts under this section there are authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1978. Not less than 10 per centum of the funds appropriated under this subsection for any fiscal year shall be used for payments under grants and contracts to meet the costs of the special projects described in subsection (a)(3).

89 STAT. 361 Appropriation authorization,

"ADVANCED NURSE TRAINING PROGRAMS

"SEC. 821. (a)(1) The Secretary may make grants to and enter into Grants and contracts with public and nonprofit private collegiate schools of contracts. 42 USC 296/:. nursing to meet the costs of projects to— "(A) plan, develop, and operate, "(B) significantly expand, or "(C) maintain existing, programs for the advanced training of professional nurses to teach in the various fields of nurse training, to serve in administrative or supervisory capacities, or to serve in other professional nursing specialties (including service as nurse clinicians) determined by the Secretary to require advanced training. "(b) For payments under grants and contracts under this section Appropriation there are authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, authorization. $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1978. "NURSE PRACTITIONER PROGRAMS

"SEC. 822. (a)(1) The Secretary may make grants to and enter into contracts with public or nonprofit private schools of nursing, medicine, and public health, public or nonprofit private hospitals, and other public or nonprofit private entities to meet the cost of projects to— "(A) plan, develop, and operate, "(B) significantly expand, or "(C) maintain existing, programs for the training of nurse practitioners. The Secretary shall give special consideration to applications for grants or contracts for programs for the training of nurse practitioners which emphasize training respecting the special problems of geriatric patients and training to meet the particular needs of nursing home patients. "(2)(A) For purposes of this section, the term 'programs for the training of nurse practitioners' means educational programs for registered nurses (irrespective of the type of school of nursing in which the nurses received their training) which meet guidelines prescribed by the Secretary in accordance with subparagraph (B) and which have as their objective the education of nurses (including pediatric and geriatric nurses) who will, upon completion of their studies in such programs, be qualified to effectively provide primary health care, including primary health care in homes and in ambulatory care facilities, long-term care facilities, and other health care institutions. "(B) After consultation with appropriate educational organizations and professional nursing and medical organizations, the Secretary shall prescribe guidelines for programs for the training of nurse practitioners. Such guidelines shall, as a minimum, require that such a program— "(i) extend for at least one academic year and consist of— " (I) supervised clinical practice, and

Grants and contracts. 42 USC 296rQ.

"Programs for the training of nurse practitioners."

Guidelines.

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