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She wants to go out into rural communities and help alleviate some of the anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Zumbrun has been a labor and delivery nurse since receiving her BSN and wants to ensure women in underserved communities get proper medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, Allen and Zumbrun are among the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga DNP students in the Family Nurse Practitioner-Lifespan concentration directly benefiting from a $2.6-million grant awarded to the UTC School of Nursing from the Health Resources and Services Administration\u2014the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, geographically isolated and economically or medically vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year \u201cClinical-Academic Partnerships: Breaking Down Barriers to Care\u201d (CAP) grant will help prepare advanced practice nurses to meet the needs of rural and underserved communities in the Chattanooga region.<\/p>\n<p>An essential component of the grant is that FNP students are offered funding for traineeships. Each semester of their program, the students will receive approximately $8,500.<\/p>\n<p>Recipients \u201care all dedicated to providing care to the uninsured and underinsured and have a passion for nursing,\u201d says Dr. Amber Roach\u00e9, assistant professor and coordinator of the UTC Nurse Practitioner concentration and the grant\u2019s principal investigator.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, Allen and Zumbrun are part of a cohort that started in fall 2022 and will graduate in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/health-education-and-professional-studies\/school-of-nursing\"><strong>Click here to learn more about UTC School of Nursing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Morgan (BSN \u201921) has spent her career as a bedside nurse, mostly at nursing homes, \u201cbecause I love little old people,\u201d she says with a laugh, \u201cbut there\u2019s more that I want to do. That\u2019s why I want to be an FNP, just to give back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, who received an RN associate degree from Cleveland (Tennessee) State Community College, says landing the CAP grant will allow her to decrease work time and volunteer more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo venture out into underserved communities is the focus of what I want to go into when I graduate,\u201d says Morgan, who works approximately 36 hours weekly at Tennova Healthcare in Cleveland. \u201cI have plans for what I want to do\u2014like going into homes of bedbound patients that can\u2019t get to a clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen (BSN \u201920), who works at Erlanger Children\u2019s Emergency Room in Chattanooga, wants to become an FNP so she can go into rural communities and have parents feel comfortable that their children are getting the care they need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my experience in the hospital, I\u2019ve seen families that have to drive an hour and a half, two hours. Once they get admitted to the hospital, they face challenges because they can\u2019t leave their children,\u201d Allen says, \u201cand they often have other children at home with nobody to take care of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing out in the community would be really important to help these families and alleviate the burden on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Zumbrun (BSN \u201918), working in labor and delivery at Erlanger\u2019s downtown campus has allowed her to see \u201ca ton of people who are transferred from Alabama, North Carolina, all of these rural areas that don\u2019t have hospitals that can provide the care that we can,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>FNPs have long been in demand, but a recent shortage of family practice physicians has increased the number of primary care positions that FNPs are filling, particularly in rural and underserved southeast Tennessee populations.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/health-education-and-professional-studies\/school-of-nursing\/about\/visit\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for more details about visiting the\u00a0<strong>UTC School of Nursing<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular\" data-original-style=\"max-width: 100%;\"data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:9,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blogarchive.utc.edu\\\/news\\\/2023\\\/07\\\/piggin-out-pork-ribs-help-nursing-students-learn-proper-surgical-procedures\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:202990556}\">\n<div class=\"gallery-row\" data-original-style=\"max-width: 100%;\"data-original-height=\"294\">\n<div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" data-original-style=\"max-width: 100%;\"data-original-height=\"294\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonya Morgan, Alexa Allen and Logan Zumbrun are among the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga DNP students in the Family Nurse Practitioner-Lifespan concentration directly benefiting from a $2.6-million grant awarded to the UTC School of Nursing from the Health Resources and Services Administration\u2014the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, geographically isolated and economically or medically vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/grant-funds-work-on-breaking-down-barriers-to-care\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1493,"featured_media":56332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4936,70,123864,56,3,7712,52,661],"tags":[123819,119585,123827,123828,123820,119525,48008,122863,123829,123818],"class_list":{"0":"post-56155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-advancement-and-alumni","9":"category-college-of-health-education-and-professional-studies","10":"category-community","11":"category-faculty-and-staff","12":"category-graduate-school","13":"category-school-of-nursing","14":"category-students","15":"tag-alexa-allen","16":"tag-amber-roache","17":"tag-creating-the-mocs-experience","18":"tag-leveraging-our-special-place-as-chattanoogas-university","19":"tag-logan-zumbrun","20":"tag-nurse-practitioner","21":"tag-office-of-research-and-sponsored-programs","22":"tag-on-call-magazine","23":"tag-operating-with-excellence","24":"tag-tonya-morgan","25":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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