Scholarship winners receive tuition and school fee payments to undergraduate nursing school of enrollment, reimbursement for other expected school-associated costs, including books, clinical supplies and laboratory expenses, and a monthly stipend.
Applicants must meet the following criteria in order to be considered for the scholarship. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals who are "enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a full-time or part-time student in an accredited school of nursing in a professional registered nurse program (baccalaureate, graduate, associate degree, or diploma)," according to the scholarship website. The applicant must be registered to commence "classes for the fall term on or after July 1 and no later than Sept. 30." Applicants must not have any federal judgment liens, federal debts or existing commitments of service.
Scholarship winners tend to be enrolled full-fime or accepted for full-time enrollment in an undergraduate nursing school while having an amount of zero expected family contribution (EFC) on the student aid report generated after completing the Free Application for Federal Student Assistance (FAFSA).
Nursing scholarship winners can provide service in any state in almost every kind of health care facility except for assisted-living facilities, certain free standing clinics, offices of private practice and renal dialysis centers. Eligible facilities, however, include the following: "ambulatory surgical centers, federally qualified health centers, home health agencies, hospice programs, hospitals, Indian Health Service health centers, native Hawaiian health centers, nursing homes, rural health clinics, skilled nursing facilities, and state or local public health departments including public health clinics within the departments," according to the scholarship website.
HRSA Nursing Scholarship Program graduates have up to six months after their graduation date to get a nursing license and accept an employment offer from a scholarship-approved facility. Graduates are then given an additional three months from the date of acceptance to start working either full-time or part-time contingent upon program approval.