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ExpectMore.govExpectMore.gov home pageEXPECT FEDERAL PROGRAMS TO PERFORM WELL, AND BETTER EVERY YEAR.
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Nursing Education Loan Repayment and Scholarship Program

The Nursing Education Loan Repayment and Scholarship program provides loan repayment awards to nurses in exchange for a commitment to serve in health facilities facing a nursing shortage.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program directly places registered nurses in facilities that are short of nurses. Research has found health care quality and patient well-being appear to be impacted by the number of nurses working in the facility relative to the number of patients in their care. Participating nurses are repaying their loans and serving in eligible facilities.
  • The program's national impact on nurse vacancies and staffing is not known. Because the program is small, it has had difficulty determining its national impact. Further work is needed to improve the measurement of key outcomes.
  • No evaluations have been conducted and no other evidence is available to indicate the program's overall impact. An evaluation of program results could be useful to target resources and make other decisions. While the program has adopted new performance goals, it does not have data to show progress.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Testing methodology to identify critical nursing shortage facilities.
  • Developing an information system to replace BHCDANET (legacy system) to better manage data on scholars, loan repayers and service sites.

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