HogNurse

Thanx for researchin that for me. I will look into vtag again next year before fall 2008 and see if it works for me then because by then i will have worked in va for a year.

Nadia, thanks for ur reply. Do you have to have been a VA resident for some time to get that vtag thing? How would I go about asking about a minority scholarship? Do you know anyone who has qualified for that?

Thanks, I'm not lookin' for a hand-out nor did I expect any minority scholarship that I might miraculously happen onto (since whites typically don't get those) to pay for anywhere close to 100% of my tuition/fees, but it would sure help

Technically not working there yet, but I will be accepting a job in the next day or 2 in Med-Surg

I concur with what the other posters on this thread have said...nothing you will learn in ur BSN program will help at all on the GRE. I just graduated BSN in May and I took the GRE in December and did just fine and got into grad school with it. So, review some stuff like some practice math questions and analogies for like 1 day before the GRE and then go in there and blow it out of the water! Good luck!

Hey, as a new grad I would also be super-scared workin' with vents my first job out of school. Granted, I don't feel completely retarded, but put in an autonomous position as a real nurse I probably would...Good luck, you'll learn a lot!!

I agree with part of what you are saying, but by the slim chance that I did get a minority scholarship especially at an all-black university, I know that there wouldn't be the chance that some under-priviledged student went without because they helped me out so in a sense I disagree. I'm not gonna explore this opportunity very deeply because I have too much pride, but I'm not exactly sittin here with a silver spoon in my mouth. I just graduated with a BSN in May, got married in June and moved away from home and am working on gettin' a part-time job since I'm gonna be a full-time MSN student so I would love a little help to take the edge off of the humongous student loans that I'm gonna be looking at whenever I graduate!

Your message was a lot of help!! I just wanna get out there and work so I can work out all the bumps and curves cuz I know that its gonna be a challenge but I'm tired of thinkin/talkin about it!!!

I have heard one of my friends that also just graduated in May with me talk about having a million diff. preceptors and how it sucked not just having one. I am fixin' to start a job in which the nurse manager told me that they try to keep u with one, no more than 2 preceptors during your orientation. I hope that it is not too much of a culture shock hitting the floor as a real nurse and not a student.

I just got offered a job (in virginia) as a new grad BSN on nights part-time approx 24 hrs. a week. So I would say there are situations out there like you're wantin' ...it seems like not as many ppl wanna work nights so it should technically be easier to find...maybe?

Yea, but I don't know how to go about it, because I feel awkward going up to the Financial Aid office counselors who are predominantly black and asking them if I could get a minority scholarship?!?! I am not racist by any means, obviously I am going to a school where I am the minority, but if I can get some financial help payin' for grad school then u can bet I'll take it! Are you in a MSN program? Where r u from?

I am a BSN new grad and was recently accepted into Hampton University in Hampton, VA for their MSN/FNP program. I have been told by some locals of this area (I am new from Arkansas) that since HU is a traditionally all-black university founded by Booker T. Washington that I would be the ethnic minority (being white) and could qualify for a minority scholarship. Does anyone know anything about this?

I was recently accepted into Hampton University in Hampton, VA for their MSN/FNP program. I have been told by some locals of this area (I am new from Arkansas) that since HU is a traditionally all-black university founded by Booker T. Washington that I would be the ethnic minority (being white) and could qualify for a minority scholarship. Does anyone know anything about this?

I was reading this thread because it pertained to HU and I am accepted into their MSN/FNP program to start this Fall. Do you know anything about their graduate nursing program?