Putting Americans In Control of Their Health Care

Title V. Health Care Workforce

Increasing the Supply of Nurses

The Act will increase the number of nurses in the Unites States.  It takes a comprehensive approach that helps to retain nurses and to address financial barriers that nurses and nurse faculty face today. 

The Act awards competitive grants to nursing schools to strengthen nurse education and training programs and to improve nurse retention programs throughout the country.

It increases the student loan amounts for nursing students and addresses critical nurse faculty shortages by making nursing faculty eligible for loan repayment and scholarship programs.

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