by Katerina Nikolas
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is cognizant of the ever increasing critical shortage of nurses, which is further compounded by the cost student loan debt that those who qualify as RN’s face upon graduation. In an effort to alleviate some of these problems the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program is expanding to include more nurses each year, and helps to pay some of the associated qualifying costs by helping with loan repayment.
However not all applicants will be able to benefit from the program as it is very oversubscribed. To address this The Bureau of Clinician Recruitment Service which administers the program has strict rules pertaining to how the available funds are awarded. In 2009 approximately one in eight of qualified applicants were accepted into the program. Read more…
