Support reauthorization and funding of Title VIII nursing workforce development programs
The Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act was just reintroduced in early June. The Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act is a program that has been going for five decades. Tittle VIII programs help nurse education from entry-level through graduate study, and provide the largest source of federal funding supporting institutions that help educate nurses for practice in rural and medically underserved communities.
Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development programs provide the largest source of federal funding for nursing education. According to HRSA, between FY 2006 and 2012 alone, these programs provided loans, scholarships, and programmatic support to over 450,000 nursing students and nurses.
The American Nurses Association has posted a list of the major grant programs within Title VIII as follows:
Advanced Education Nursing: Grants are for …show more content…
National Nurse Service Corps: The Nurse Education Loan Repayment Program repays 60 to 85 percent of nursing student loans in return for at least two years of practice in a facility designated as having critical shortage of nurses.
Nurse Faculty Loan Program: This program establishes loan programs within schools of nursing to support the students that are pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees. Once the student has graduated, loan recipients are required to teach at a school or nursing in exchange for cancellation of up to 85 percent of their educations loans, and this also includes interest over four years.
Comprehensive Geriatric Education Grants: Grants to train nurses who provide direct care to the elderly, to support geriatric nursing curriculum, and to train faculty in geriatrics, and provide continue education to nursing who are providing geriatric
The Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act was just reintroduced in early June. The Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act is a program that has been going for five decades. Tittle VIII programs help nurse education from entry-level through graduate study, and provide the largest source of federal funding supporting institutions that help educate nurses for practice in rural and medically underserved communities.
Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development programs provide the largest source of federal funding for nursing education. According to HRSA, between FY 2006 and 2012 alone, these programs provided loans, scholarships, and programmatic support to over 450,000 nursing students and nurses.
The American Nurses Association has posted a list of the major grant programs within Title VIII as follows:
Advanced Education Nursing: Grants are for …show more content…
National Nurse Service Corps: The Nurse Education Loan Repayment Program repays 60 to 85 percent of nursing student loans in return for at least two years of practice in a facility designated as having critical shortage of nurses.
Nurse Faculty Loan Program: This program establishes loan programs within schools of nursing to support the students that are pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees. Once the student has graduated, loan recipients are required to teach at a school or nursing in exchange for cancellation of up to 85 percent of their educations loans, and this also includes interest over four years.
Comprehensive Geriatric Education Grants: Grants to train nurses who provide direct care to the elderly, to support geriatric nursing curriculum, and to train faculty in geriatrics, and provide continue education to nursing who are providing geriatric