Loans, Scholarships and Grants

Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP)
Call 1-866-813-3753 or visit http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/loanrepay.htm
All NELRP participants must enter into a contract agreeing to provide full-time service at an approved Critical Shortage Facility (CSF) for two years. In return, the NELRP will pay 30 percent of the participant's total qualifying loan balance each year (total of 60 percent). A participant may be eligible to amend his/her two-year NELRP Contract to serve for a third (optional) year at a CSF. If a participant works full-time for a third year in a CSF, the NELRP will pay an additional 25 percent of the participant's original qualifying loan balance.

Nursing Scholarship Program
Visit http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/scholarship/
In exchange for at least two years service at a health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses, the Nursing Scholarship Program pays for tuition, required fees other reasonable costs, including required books, clinical supplies, laboratory expenses, etc. monthly stipend ($1,115 for the 2004-2005 academic year).

For Additional Scholarship Opportunities visit http://www.discovernursing.com/scholarship_search.asp

Iowa College Aid Commission established May 2002.
Visit http://www.iowacollegeaid.org
Iowa's NEW Nursing Education Loan Forgiveness Program -- Applications now available.
Priority deadline: September 1, 2004.

Iowa Nurses' Foundation Scholarship
Offered to INA members who are practicing RNs furthering their education. Must be in final year of education.
http://www.iowanurses.org/applic.htm

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