Hospitals In Texas That Offer Support Through Nursing Schools If Commitment Made

medsurgtrenchesRN · May 15, 2009

I believe that where I applied at Baptist School of Health Professions has a work-study program, but I am not sure of the details. They were pretty hush hush about it at the information meeting. But from what I can gather, you work while you're in nursing school and that can count towards your clinicals, and then you also have a contract for a few years to work with Baptist. Maybe someone here has been through it and knows more, I'm not sure how much of that is true, but I plan to find out if I am accepted!

-natasha

kdsrn · May 16, 2009

The VA hospital has a program as well.

jessica<3RN · May 16, 2009

Just a heads up; everyone in our class who received the work loan was already an employee of Baptist.

jean36 · May 16, 2009

harris methodist

medsurgtrenchesRN · May 16, 2009

Just a heads up; everyone in our class who received the work loan was already an employee of Baptist.

Good to know! Thanks!

xobeckyxo · Jul 27, 2009

Yes Baptist School of Health professions does do the work loan program but it doesn't require you to work while you are in school. It means that they will pay for your entire tuition (I'm pretty sure you don't get any extra money to put toward books), and then you are contracted to work with them for 3 years full time in ANY unit they want to put you in. It's a contract so be very careful! You sign on that line and promise to do everything it says. Depending on how broke you are, it might be better to rack up some student loans instead of being owned by Baptist for 3 entire years. But that's just another way of looking at it. If you end up failing out or not finishing you have to pay them back with a 17% interest! I know it sounds made up but I read the fine print before applying for it and right there in black and white it said 17% and that was over a year ago. I'm not saying you would fail out, but again, just another way of looking at it. What if you decide you want to move within those 3 years and there's no affiliated hospital there? Just think long and hard before signing away some of those freedoms. There are some students in my class who are on the work loan and the 1 girl, who I am closest with, was a baptist employee already!!! She was a unit secretary at BMC.

medsurgtrenchesRN · Jul 27, 2009

I am on the work study loan as well, I just signed my contract. It is 18% for payback now. If you end up having to move, I believe there is a clause providing for that where you switch to making payments on the loan. I wasn't expecting to have my tuition covered at all, and I was even told, here, I believe, that the work-study is almost impossible to get unless you're a Baptist Employee. I am living proof that isn't true! Also, when I was at the Baptist Hospital Employee Orientation, I was talking to a girl in the restroom, and she was an RN who graduated from Baptist on the work-study loan 3 years ago! She said she was really glad she did it, and that Baptist pays more than a lot of hospitals. :wink2:

flbeau · Aug 23, 2009

I was offered a Baptist Work Loan and I wound up declining after I got an HRSA scholarship instead. I qualified just on the basis of volunteering with Baptist. It is three years to fulfill their commitment and you had to accept any job they offered to you. The only reason I considered it was Baptist at the time was not going to have federally funded financial aid. Accepting the work loan meant I was no longer eligible for the other Baptist scholarships and it only funded tuition and fees not books.

Ms.RN · Aug 25, 2009

So where is this school Baptist School of Health professonals located? And do you already have to be employed in order to receive the loan? Waht about what Flbeau claims that they have to accept any job offer? Does it mean they put you anywhere you are needed like ICU, ER ?

xobeckyxo · Aug 26, 2009

The school is in San Antonio, Texas..where it's currently hot as He!! (sorry, off topic) From what we have heard about the work loan and from what the application paperwork stated; Yes they can put you ANYWHERE! There is a question in the application that asks if you are willing to work anywhere and I imagine everyone checks 'yes'. I know that some people feel Baptist will give you an ounce of opinion in the matter of where you work but who really knows. They don't have to play nice, after all, they have paid your entire tuition and now you owe them.

BettyBoop004 · Sep 14, 2009

Most of the Baylor Hospitals in Dallas have them.