Sec. 61.9803. GRANTS: CONDITIONS; LIMITATIONS    


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  • (a) The board may make a grant under this subchapter to an emergency and trauma care education partnership only if the board determines that:

    (1) the partnership will meet applicable standards for instruction and student competency for each program offered by each participating education program;

    (2) each participating education program will, as a result of the partnership, enroll in the education program a sufficient number of additional students as established by the board;

    (3) each hospital participating in an emergency and trauma care education partnership will provide to students enrolled in a participating education program clinical placements that:

    (A) allow the students to take part in providing or to observe, as appropriate, emergency and trauma care services offered by the hospital; and

    (B) meet the clinical education needs of the students; and

    (4) the partnership will satisfy any other requirement established by board rule.

    (b) A grant under this subchapter may be spent only on costs related to the development or operation of an emergency and trauma care education partnership that prepares a student to complete a graduate professional nursing program with a specialty focus on emergency and trauma care or earn board certification by the American Board of Medical Specialties.

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 , Sec. 9.01, eff. September 28, 2011.