Lovanurse

Update for those who are tracking. Acceptance email received 7/1/2014 Confirmation email received today 7/31/14! "Dear NURSE Corps LRP Program Participant, Congratulations and welcome to the NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program (LRP)! The NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program (LRP) is administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service....ect"

It will say "[email protected]"

Score: 18 Debt to income ratio: 180%

Update! I am a finalist! FYI, I couldn't find an email, I just happened to log in this morning. Good thing I did because I had to accept by 7/5/2014. Good luck friends:-)

Cool! Congrats:-)

I just seen somebody post that they got an email regarding NHSC, but not Nurse Corps. I also work with an NP who applied for NHSC this year so I'll ask her. (She's on vacation in the DR). But she used Nurse Corp loan repayment for undergrad loans so she wasn't allowed to apply for it again.

What do you mean by finalist? I thought they didn't give any definitive answers until Sept? Just asking... I haven't heard anything yet

Just checking in! Still haven't heard anything

Thanks for the credit karma info! That app is awesome! I am a NP with a HPSA site score of 18 and debt/income ratio of 180%. I saw on credit karma that the "Dept of Heal" checked my credit on March 18th. I'll be praying for my allnurses friends!

Nurse Corp is for nurses, including Advanced practice nurses. NHSC is open to MDs, PAs, dentists, MH and NPs in primary care underserved areas http://hrsa.gov/m/loanrepayment/index.html

I am also playing the waiting game. I applied to HRSA (NHSC) last year and was denied because of a low HRSA score at one of the two sites that I work at. HRSA just recently raised the scores at both of my facilities so now I'm @ 18 and 19 for both sites. I decided to apply for Nurse Corp this year because I would get a better return. My debt to income ratio is 181%.

Wow... These salaries make me feel like I'm volunteering.

I would also say that I've learned that sometimes, the diagnosis wasn't "missed", it was an incidental finding. I've caught a few alpha thalassemia's when I first started and the MD would always ask me, "ok, what are you gonna do about it?" Although this is not always the case but if the treatment is just gonna waste more money and not necessarily provide a better outcome for the patient, it's not worth chasing the dog down.

I'm only 10 months into my career and my response may be different as I work in a HRSA site. Would I choose another profession? No. The good thing about being a FNP is you are always a nurse first so I can still moonlight and do RN work for extra cash. Also there are many different specialities so if you don't like primary care, you can do specialty, administration (director of nursing), retail, school nursing ect. The good- In a HRSA clinic in a underserved community, I learn something new everyday. Alot of these patients don't have insurance so I can't defer treatment to a specialist for things like weird rashes, DVTs, seizures, or CKD, I have to learn about it and manage myself (within my scope of practice). The ugly -my pay is not that great - as above, I can do without administration, red tape, ect. I have some administrators demand that I see a friend of theirs for a non-emergent problem. Blah! -The uninsured pt's in my practice, are hard to treat and non-compliant as most can't afford medications and office visits. -I sometimes have to call specialist and ask if they can see a patient (pro bono without money or insurance if I get something like a GFR of 11. Sometimes they say yes, and other times no. If no, then I'm stuck until I can wait for Medicaid to approve the pt for dialysis. So I'm kind of a social worker???? -I am expected to see a certain amount of patients per day. Here's my issue. If I worked in an area where everybody was compliant and insured, I could see 20+ patients per day. I sometimes pray for a drivers physical or a sinus infection every once in a while. My patients are sick. I can't see a patient on 20 different medications in 20 minutes. Especially when they completely ignore there diabetes and want to focus on their narcotics. On average, I see at least 2 patients per day with blood sugars >500 No insurance, no money for insulin and they're not going back to the ED. So, to sum it up...I am mentally fried, tired, but a lot smarter and a better nurse then I've ever been in my entire career. Gotta weigh the good and bad and figure out what's important to you.

May I ask what your HRSA score is? Mine is 19 and maybe it's too low.