2017 Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program

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Hi Fellow Nurses!

Is anyone else anxiously awaiting the 2017 cycle opening?

I have applied several times and praying that 2017 is my year. I'm tier 1 - not faculty and not an NP.

Is anyone else out there?

Specializes in Telemetry, Case Management.
Impeachment is imminent for this clown.

One can only hope!!!

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An aside: Our education simply costs too much. Period. It's amazing to me that so many people are on here desperately waiting to see if they can afford to continue to work in jobs of public benefit. We shouldn't have to rely on these loan repayment programs to be able to repay our debt, and we shouldn't have to mortgage our futures for our education.

Our education programs contribute to this problem. Our programs suffer from curriculum bloat that makes NP education too long and expensive, and the nursing preceptor model is outdated and relies too much on 1) institutional support that simply doesn't exist for our programs as well as 2) lengthy, uncompensated individual support from preceptors and there just aren't enough of them. We need to move away from education focused solely on the number of clinical hours (gained, frequently, in settings that are widely varied and provide a vastly inconsistent experience from student to student) to competency-based education. Our profession has pioneered quality online education and is rapidly changing the perception of education delivered online. We should focus on up-scaling this to make NP education streamlined, efficient, and inexpensive.

There is a coming crisis in NP education with regard to preceptor availability. This will worsen with the move to the DNP, as will the amount of debt carried by NPs. The DNP is valuable for the profession, and I applaud the move to it, but it is without a doubt an added expense. At a time when we desperately need NPs, particularly in primary care, NP education is more expensive than ever, and additional barriers to practice are erected every day. Post-master's re-specialization programs are too long, bloated, expensive, and inefficient for re-specialization, again focused on clinical hours rather than competency.

Our colleagues in other disciplines have degrees that allow them flexibility to move between practice roles and settings, while ours restrict our practice. Once NPs have completed their education, they should be able to use on-the-job training supplemented with online didactic content to prepare for exam-based certification in additional specialty areas.

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Are there any NPs applying for HRSA loan repayment or both nurse corp and HRSA?

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Specializes in FNP: Urgent Care & Primary Care; RN: Med-Surg.

Ok, so does anyone know how & when people were notified if they DID NOT receive the award?

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It seems from what I am reading that the Nurse Faculty have received notification. I am new nurse faculty (about a year at my job) and I recieved notification on 7/3. My status now is "Award - Under Final Review". I can only hope that the secretary of the HRSA (or whoever it is) signs the awards!

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It seems from what I am reading that the Nurse Faculty have received notification. I am new nurse faculty (about a year at my job) and I recieved notification on 7/3. My status now is "Award - Under Final Review". I can only hope that the secretary of the HRSA (or whoever it is) signs the awards!

What are your stats?

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CompuNurse25- I believe in previous years, awardees could look under their submitted application, and at the very end could see when their applications were signed. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but awardees would usually see a signature within 2 weeks of getting initial award. Congrats and best of luck!

Also, I think within a month of countersignature, people were receiving their first payments... :)

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AnaLong- Are you referring to applicants who received the initial award and then did NOT receive the forgiveness? Or when those of us waiting to hear, finally were told we were NOT going to receive the award at all?

In the last 4 years, I saw one person actually decline the award given, and I don't know of ANY applicant who was initially awarded who then did NOT receive it. So here's hoping!

The last 3 years, I believe the application process ended about 9/30, when the remaining applicants received an email saying that funds were gone. :(

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Received my finalist email today!!!! Tier 2 Faculty with DTI 145%.

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Received finalist award notification today. Faculty, Tier 2. Second year applying. And by the way, even with budget cuts, the Nurse Corps Loan repayment program will be the only one that remains if changes are approved. All other nursing education loan repayment/scholarship programs will be wiped away. Cross our fingers that they aren't cut. One program isn't enough.

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I also received my finalist email last friday evening! I am not going to lie reading over the penalties I could potentially incur from breaking the contract was scary (pay it all back + interest+ 75000 a month per month of broken contract)! Good thing I am planning to stay at my job for that long.

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Tier 2 Nurse Faculty just got finalist notification today. Does anyone know if there were finalists that did NOT receive the award in the past?

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