Sec. 61.9803. GRANTS: CONDITIONS; LIMITATIONS. (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 (S.B. 7), Sec. 9.01, eff. September 28, 2011.
Structure Texas Statutes
Subtitle B - State Coordination of Higher Education
Chapter 61 - Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Subchapter HH. Texas Emergency and Trauma Care Education
Section 61.9802. Program: Establishment; Administration; Purpose
Section 61.9803. Grants: Conditions; Limitations
Section 61.9804. Priority for Funding