Financial assistance for nursing students
Oklahoma Nurse, Dec, 2009
Each day, we are reminded there are not enough nurses in Oklahoma. Employment of nurses is expected to grow as more trained nurses become available. Through educational assistance, the State of Oklahoma is committed in helping to provide well-trained nurses for the care of people in Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Nursing Student Assistance Program, established by the Oklahoma Legislature in 1982, provides financial assistance to as many nursing students as funds allow. If a scholarship recipient works as a nurse in Oklahoma upon graduation, the financial assistance does not have to be repaid. Financial assistance is available for selected qualified students pursuing LPN, ADN, BSN, or MSN degrees.
With the addition of 261 new nursing student recipients, the Physician Manpower Training Commission will have provided 5,259 total scholarships for nursing students in Oklahoma since 1982 when the scholarship was created. This program has provided nurses to all 77 counties in Oklahoma with an emphasis placed on the rural communities.
Currently, we have 313 nurses that received funding through our program fulfilling their work obligation throughout the state of Oklahoma.
Further information is available on the web-site of the Physician Manpower Training Commission. The web-site is www.pmtc.ok.gov. The new application will be available on the web site in March, 2010
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