Given the deman, where's the grants, incentives & scholarships available now???

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Hi all,

Was wondering where is all the financial resources available to help ease the nursing shortage??

Cheers.

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Specializes in Trauma ICU, MICU/SICU.

No shortage of scholarships here (Bethlehem PA). I am starting an A.A.S. RN program in January.

I had my choice of 3 hospital scholarships. All full tuition, books, fees. I chose a Magnet Hospital http://www.lvh.org LVH is also a level 1 trauma center with a Burn Unit, NICU, and several other types of ICU. They also have a 23 week Critical Care internship (and med/surg and OR internships) for GN's. I lean toward critical care, but won't really know what I want to pursue until I get in the thick of things. I chose this hospital because it seemed like the most supportive environment for new nurses.

Have you checked with financial aid at your school. Have you researched hospitals in your area?

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suemom2kay,

Thanks for your reply, if you don't mind, how much of your tuition are they covering?

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Specializes in Trauma ICU, MICU/SICU.

Please re-read my post. I hit enter by accident (2x) mid-sentance. :rolleyes: :D

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Specializes in Trauma ICU, MICU/SICU.

Oops, one more thing... (can you tell I'm sick (GI thing) and tired???).

I have to work there for 1 year in exchange for the scholarship. The internship also requires a 1 year commitment. I wonder if my "sentence" will be concurrent or what's that other word (same meaning as serially - but that is so not a word)...

Night night!

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wow! good for you!

so how did you find out that they would pay for tuition? Did your financial aid office inform you of this?

I went to an open house yesterday and asked this question, but was told that I would have to contact the hospitals on my own.

Was wondering if there was a method to this madness :confused:

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Specializes in Trauma ICU, MICU/SICU.

Different hospitals do it differently. Of the 3 scholarships I could choose from 2 were offered through my school's financial aid office. The 3rd hospital I would have had to have applied through them (but they were a bit far from me).

Anyway, I found out who to contact at my school from LVH (I was pursuing working there as a CNA - another long story). The woman at LVH told me if I was turned down for the scholarship from my school to contact her and they would get me a scholarship through them.

The contact name of the financial aid lady was given out to everyone at orientation. But by then, my paperwork was already started for my scholarship. So I feel fortunate. Don't know if it helped me or not.

The scholarship is such a blessing because we don't know how we would afford my tuition, etc. otherwise.

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