Nurse Corps Scholarship Program
Program Description
The NURSE Corps Scholarship Program (NSP) enables students accepted or enrolled in a diploma, associate, baccalaureate or graduate nursing programs (including RN to BSN Bridge Programs) to receive funding for tuition, fees, and other educational costs in exchange for service after graduation by working at an eligible Critical Shortage Facility located in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA).
Program Goals and Impacts
The Nurse Corps Scholarship Program aims to encourage enrollment in nursing programs and practicing in the state after graduation in exchange for tuition, fees and other costs covered. Impacts include an increased number of nurses in HPSA and increased enrollment in nursing schools.
Funding Information
The NURSE Corps Scholarship Program pays: tuition, eligible fees, other reasonable costs and a monthly stipend to cover living expenses.
Program Sustainability
To attain sustainability interest in receiving loans to become a nurse and work in an eligible Critical Shortage Facility located in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) is needed.
Sustainability Challenges
Challenges to sustainability may include:
Fiscal resources to support loans.
Partial loans, or other incentives by schools or facilities to provide education.
Graduate nurses who want to work in these areas.
Key Contacts
The Arizona Department of Health Services and the National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network.
