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For the HRSA Scholarship, Nurse Corps scholarship, or LRP?

Hi all! I didn't see a thread for this year's HRSA National Health Service Corps Scholarship so I thought I'd start one. They should start sending out COIs in about a month. Who else applied?

Did you apply to the Nurse Corp or the NHSC scholarship program?

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I believe it's Confirmation of Interest - to see if you still would take the award if offered. If you decline, they send to the next one on the list.

I second this. I applied last year and no one received COIs until early Sept. They were not sent all at once, but in weekly batches. Some awardees had credit checks in mid-August, some did not. Some had a credit check and no COI. Some even got a COI, filled out the paperwork, and were not awarded. Rejection letters came late Sept (as did more COIs). You can follow our nail-biting journey here-https://allnurses.com/HRSA-nurse-corps-scholarships-t750144/?page=29 Not doing that again. I'll start keeping an eye out mid-Sept. They awarded less than 10% of the applicants and my guess is it could be a lot less this year. I'll be honest - I don't have high hopes with the funding cuts and HRSA no longer answering calls (they were very responsive last year). I applied again, but it will be the last year I do. Sometimes you just need to pay attention to the signs ?

Agreed with the above. There is heavy patient contact - even with remote work as a PMHNP. Why choose an APRN role instead of Nurse Informatics, Research, or Executive Leadership?

Hi all, We are a new hospice agency (2 years) in a rural area in Colorado and are having some growing pains. Currently, our clinical supervisor (RN) and our lead RN are taking all of the call (week on/week off). They are the only FT RNs. We have one FT LPN who lives locally, and one PT RN, who lives an hour away and doesn't want to take call (semi-retired). Finding nurses who want to do hospice/take call has been a struggle, and why we hired a PT RN and an LPN (can't pronounce deaths). We discussed an on-call service, but due to the cost, it has been tabled until we have more growth. Our census is currently 20. I think the main issue is not the amount of after-hour calls or visits (although that can be a lot on some nights), it's that the 2 call nurses need to have their phones on them at all times, don't sleep well (waiting for call), need to drive separately from their families when they go to dinner in case they get a call, and because we are in a rural area, they and their families are very limited on where they can go so they don't end up in or crossing or ending up in an area that does not receive cell service. Even if others are taking the calls and triaging, they still need to be available and ready to make an urgent or death visit. Both of our call nurses are beyond burned out. Has anyone been in a similar situation and have any creative solutions? In Colorado, an RN can pronounce hospice deaths after training. What if an LPN attends a death visit, reports vital sign findings to RN on call (via phone), and the RN pronounces this way? Has anyone heard of this? Thank you in advance! **Bonus points for links (or general direction) to law or Colorado BON scope of practice that supports a legal, creative solution within scope ?

I think they need to run credit checks before they can see if you are delinquent on loans.

Did you apply for the Nurse Corps Scholarship or the NHSC Scholarship? The NHSC Scholarship group got emails stating their application was under review yesterday (despite being under review for months already). No one there is getting credit checks yet though.

Try not to be discouraged. I don't know what the criteria is for a credit check, but I've read in several other forums that credit checks don't seem to hold a lot of water on whether someone will get selected or not.

I've also read that emails are accurate, but often the website doesn't reflect. For example, someone might get an email that they are a finalist, but the website still says "Under Review". So they will call HRSA and are told the email is accurate.

I've heard both that the credit check can be a good sign, but also there were some people who got a credit check but were not selected. I've also heard people that were selected, but never had a credit check. So, who knows...

I think they do start notifying people around now and might even notify them in rounds. Awardees have the option of declining, which some might if their circumstances changed and they are not longer able to commit to the contract. If so, they probably continue to award until all of the funding is used. This is just my assumption but would explain why some people find out in Aug and some in Sept.

I haven't been able to find a thread about the NHSC Scholarship (not the Nurse Corps Scholarship or Loan Repayment), so I'm starting one. Has anyone applied? Anyone gotten a credit check or notified of finalist status? Should be any day now. They've started notifying LRP recipients.