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AMHERST — A $50,000 gift from the Highland Street Foundation, based in Framingham, is helping to fund the first class of students in the UMass School if Nursing’s new two-year clinical nurse leader program.
The family foundation makes grants to a range of human service and health care organizations.
The master’s degree program, which is the first and only such initiative in Massachusetts, prepares nurses to work directly with patients and families to navigate through all aspects of the health care system. The first seven students began their training in the fall of 2005.
The funds are being used to create the McGrath Family Clinical Nurse Leader Fellowship program, which will be used to offset tuition and other costs for the students in the program’s second year.
The seven students, who range in age from 26 to 50, hold a variety of nursing positions in area hospitals.
The UMass Amherst School of Nursing is one of 90 nursing schools across the country participating in a national partnership model with health care institutions to create new ways to deliver quality care to patients.
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