Prospective Scholars

Eligibility Criteria

Specific eligibility criteria includes the following:

• Being nominated by the dean of a fully-accredited U.S. nursing school.
• Being a registered nurse with a research doctorate in nursing or a related discipline.
• Being a junior faculty member in an accredited school of nursing in an academic position that could lead to tenure. (Junior faculty are defined as those who have been in a faculty position after completing their doctorate for at least two and no more than five years at the start of the program, and usually are at the instructor or assistant professor level.)
• Identifying at least one senior leader in the school of nursing as a nursing mentor.
• Identifying at least one senior researcher with similar or complementary research interests as his/her research mentor at the applicant’s university.
• Being a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or its territories at the time of application.
• Not receiving support from other research fellowships/traineeships at the time he/she begins the program.

We embrace racial, ethnic and gender diversity and encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.

Please see the Nurse Faculty Scholars 2011 Call for Applications, available fall of 2011 at www.rwjfnursefacultyscholars.org for complete eligibility and selection criteria. The applications will be due in late winter 2011. The exact timeline for the process will be released as part of the call for applications.

To be notified of the Nurse Faculty Scholars 2011 call for applications, please sign up for e-mail alerts at www.rwjf.org/services.