Scholarships for Dads and Students – Chance to Win $10,000

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Nursing Scholarships for Dads and Students

With so many people losing their jobs due to cutbacks or just plain having their positions done away with, most are looking to go back to school and enter a new field. One career path that many are taking is in medicine. According to the projection by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be a need for more than a million new and replacement registered nurses by the year 2016. This makes the field of nursing very desirable by many. But sometimes the cost of this education will hold some would-be nurses back.

However, thanks to a nursing scholarship program in Virginia, many students may be able to enter the medical field. The University of Virginia School of Nursing has received funds from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing via the foundation’s New Careers in Nursing Scholarship program. This scholarship program will be awarding scholarships for dads and men and underrepresented minorities.

Scholarship money will be given to those underrepresented groups of students including non-traditional students, men, and minorities.

At the University of Virgina there will be five $10,000 scholarships awarded to students entering accelerated nursing programs during the current academic year.

Men and minorities who are interested in this nursing scholarship program and are applying for next semester should contact Clay Hysell at 434-924-0066 or cdh6n@virginia.edu. The application deadline is November 1st.

Nursing Scholarships in Tennessee

If you are a resident of one of the 15 counties of East Tennessee and you are a public health nurse or public health nursing student, then you need to know about the Ruby A. Brown Memorial Scholarship. This is a Public Health Nursing Scholarship that will be awarded to public health nurses who want to continue their education and to public health nursing students.

You must be a resident in one of 15 counties (Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, or Union) and must be a currently-employed public health nurse (or a public health nursing student).

This is a one year, two semester scholarship worth $3000 and is open to current and former recipients.

Application deadline for this Tennessee scholarship is Friday, April 23, 2010. For more information go here.