Samford University’s Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing has received two significant grants — one from the Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) and one from the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program (NCIN).
The nursing school received the second-largest award nationally of the 103 NFLP grants for 2013–14. This is the 11th year for Samford to receive the grant by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Samford’s grant of $1,015,832 was one of only two grants nationally that exceed $1 million. Samford received the largest of three grants in the state of Alabama.
The grants are designed to help ease a national shortage of nursing educators, according to Jane Martin, associate nursing dean and the HRSA grant administrator at Samford. Students who receive loans for master’s or doctoral degree programs can have up to 85 percent of the loan forgiven in exchange for service as full-time nursing faculty members at an accredited school of nursing.
As part of the RWJF-NCIN Scholarship Program, the school will receive $50,000 during the 2013–2014 academic year to support students in the school’s accelerated second baccalaureate nursing program. These students are traditionally underrepresented in the field of nursing and are pursuing second careers in the field.
Each NCIN scholar has already earned a bachelor’s degree in another field and is making a career switch to nursing through an accelerated nursing degree program.
Five Samford students will be awarded NCIN scholarships.
In addition to a $10,000 scholarship, NCIN scholars receive other support to help them meet the demands of an accelerated degree program.
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