Student Nurse with Disability Bursary

Applicants must:

• Identify as a person with disability.
• Be a British Columbia resident.
• Be a BCNU student member or a BCNU IEN associate member.
  Sign up to be a BCNU student member or a BCNU IEN associate member. Membership is free. If you have already signed up, but do not have your BCNU student ID number or your BCNU IEN associate member ID number, email the BCNU membership department. Your application will not be processed without your BCNU student ID number or your BCNU IEN associate member ID number.
• Be enrolled in a nursing program in BC as of Sept. 15.
• Have not worked as an employed student nurse (ESN) in the past 12 months.
• After graduation, you intend to stay and work in BC as a nurse.

This is a one-time bursary. If you have applied for and received funding from this bursary in the past, you are not eligible to apply again.

Applications are accepted from January to Sept. 15. The application deadline is September 15 of each year.

Complete the online application form which includes an associated waiver when applying for the bursary.

The BCNU Bursary Committee will randomly draw eligible applicants for the bursary after the deadline

Notification emails will be sent to the randomly drawn bursary recipients near the end of October. Please ensure you check your junk mail folders as well.

Applicants meeting the eligibility requirements stated above will be entered into a random draw for the bursary. The successful applicants will be notified by email with instructions and will be required to provide their social insurance number (SIN) for tax purposes as well as proof of enrolment and fees/tuition paid before funds are released.