Section 338.10702. Board determination of categories and areas of need for designating awards; department required to communicate board's determination of need to nursing programs; applications.  


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  • (1) The board shall biennially determine categories and areas of need for designating scholarship awards to eligible programs of nursing. The board may consider any of the following in  establishing categories  and areas of need:

    (a)        Data generated from licensure renewal data provided by the division of health statistics, Michigan department of community health.

    (b)     National nursing statistical data and trends  that have  identified nursing shortages.

    (c)        Data identifying medically underserved areas (mua), medically underserved populations (mup), or health professional shortage areas (hpsa).

    (2)      The department shall communicate the board’s determination as  to categories and areas of  need  to  approved  nursing education programs in Michigan.

    (3)     The department shall provide applications to approved programs of nursing that meet the established eligibility criteria in R 338.10703.

History: 1998-2000 AACS.