Are there programs for nurses who don’t want to become faculty members?
The Nurse Faculty Loan Program was specifically designed to address the faculty shortage and then of course under the other part of the Title VIII legislation, there is the whole advanced education nursing grant section. Those are grants to schools of nursing to provide program support for advanced education programs, which include master’s and doctoral level programs, that educate graduates for various roles and specialties. In addition to the program support for advanced education, funds are available for traineeship support. Currently we provide traineeship funds to over 400 schools of nursing for individual student support at the graduate level. These schools are also listed on our web site (http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/). The NRA is really quite broad when you start to look at it from all these different perspectives. Right, the addition of the NRA to the existing legislation results in a very comprehensive, flexible piece of legislation. As a result, the Title VIII legislation fo
