For ALL Baptist College Graduates/Student!!!

2bmalenurse007 · Apr 24, 2008

just wanted too add some more questions about the tuition deferral program.

can you also do loan foregiveness program at the same time?

is the starting pay the same for those who do the two-year tuition

deferral program?

i also start clinicals in spring of 2009.

thanks:specs:

tsconard · Apr 28, 2008

I'm not familiar with any info on the loan forgiveness. As far as the starting pay, from what the HR reps told me...someone from the HR department will be coming out to talk to us in our final semester, with info on the starting salary, loan forgiveness,benefits, etc. Just my thinking is that no hospital will cover a nurse for loan forgiveness AND tuition deferral.

tsconard · Apr 28, 2008

I'm doing the 2 year deferral now. The semester before your clinicals start(Foundations course), they will send out an email for applicants. You then sign up for an interview appointment on the sign up sheet in admissions. Your interview will be a panel interview. I interviewed with Ms. Steptor (instructor), the CNO at Baptist Memphis, and another Nurse manager from the hospital. I was pretty confident about the interview because I knew that it wouldn't make or break me. With or without it I'm finishing nursing school. So I wasn't nervous at all. Then they mail out letters informing you if you were selected. They will have an information session for any questions, and you will sign your contract at this time.

1.You will get a reimbursement check for tuition of any nursing classes that you have already completed at that point (usually Health Assessment,Pharm I, and Intro to Prof Nursing).

2.You must agree to work at ANY Baptist facility for at least two years for the tuition to be forgiven. You must not be specific about where you will not work. With the shortage of nurses though, you will have your pick of where you want to work.

3.The Tuition Deferral covers tuition ONLY (credit hour charge, technology fee, assessment fee). All of that is the bulk of your charges anyway. You will still have the student health fee, professional insurance, parking and books (a few hundred dollars).

4. The deferral program GUARANTEES you a job, once you pass boards. Also you supposedly get preference when applying for the nurse tech positions at Baptist. And from what I hear other nurses say, Baptist has the highest paid nurses. I work at Methodist and our nurses don't make as much.

5. You still get any financial aid that you qualified for outside of the tuition deferral. Pell grant, loans, scholarships, TSAC.....it will all be refunded to you each semester after fee payment. The tuition deferral amount will appear on your student acct as a credit which deducts the total of your tuition, leaving only your fees to come out of any of your financial aid amounts.

tsconard · Apr 28, 2008

I'm entering Adult I now. From Foundations I learned to, focus on what your lecture instructor says. THE NURSING TESTS ARE NOT THE SAME AS ANY OTHER CLASS! The test questions are multiple choice of course, BUT some test questions may have 2/3 correct answers and should be marked that way. Be sure to ask your instructor if there will be any "multiple multiples" on the tests. Also, they are not like Health Assessment, where the answer choices would be 1 right answer and 3 wrong. The nursing questions are more like 2 completely wrong choices, 1 right choice, and 1 correct choice given the CIRCUMSTANCES of the question. Our first test was a SHOCKER for my whole class!

2bmalenurse007 · Apr 29, 2008

Thanks for all of the info. Please keep us updated , with the starting pay and benefits.

rikashade04RN · May 2, 2008

i thought more people would have responded than this but oh well...the info was great. oh...do you know how many people they generally select for the tuition deferral program??