Updated with video; Close to one million dollars given to the nursing program for scholarships and stipends.
ALBANY, GA. -- Albany State University’s Department of Nursing is celebrating after getting close to a million dollars in grant money.
The $960,000 HRSA grant will help provide stipends and scholarships for nursing students. The money will be broken down into $300,000 increments over the next three years.
Nursing staff for the school say it will be distributed amongst general nursing students, RN and BSN students, and people who already have a nursing degree and want to further their education. They say all the students have to do is apply themselves.
“There is an application process for the money and students will have to do studies and participate in certain programs in order to strengthen them and make sure they are ready for the nursing program,” said ASU Nursing Professor Dr. Cathy Williams, “It will provide them all the things that they need to be successful in the program.”
She says the university also received a separate $29,000 grant to use for the nursing program.
University officials stress that Albany State University’s nursing program is fully accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission and fully approved by the Georgia State Board of Nurses.
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