Maryland Funds Nurse Support Program

[VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN]

Maryland Funds Nurse Support Program

To provide for two statewide initiatives designed to help alleviate the shortage of nurses, the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission has approved funding in the amount of $9.4 million a year over the next 10 years for the Nurse Support Program (NSP).

The first initiative will fund graduate nursing faculty scholarships and living expenses, new nursing faculty fellowships, and state nursing scholarship and living expense grants.

The second, the competitive institutional grants initiative, will expand the state's nursing capacity through shared resources, increase the state's nursing faculty, increase nursing student retention, and increase the pipeline for nurse faculty.

http://www.nln.org

http://www.mhec.state.md.us/financialAid/ProgramDescriptions/prog_NSPII.asp