If you're a nursing student in college, then here's something of interest to you. Women's & Children's Hospital is now accepting applications for their Memorial Scholarship.
The program received $500,000 in donations last year from Lafayette's major hospitals and the Lafayette Economic Development Authority to help fund faculty salaries and equipment needed to get the program off the ground.
Laurie Fontenot, SLCC dean of Nursing, Allied Health and Safety, says the faculty had to be on board before the state Board of Nursing could begin the process of approving the program.