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Hello All! Does anyone know if and where there are nursing bridge programs? Something where a hospital is working with the local nursing school and will pay for the students to attend the nursing program with the condition that upon completion the nursing student works for the hospital for a number of years?

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Are you in California? Your profile doesn't say where you are. You must live in California for a year to be a resident of California and get the reduced resident tuition.

I knew of one in California, but I do not know if the hospital still does it in conjunction with the local community college. You must first be an employee of the hospital and then apply to the nursing program at the college. Once accepted into the nursing program you get priority placement in the nursing classes when the school is given proof that you are an employee of the hospital.

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Here in Michigan, Henry Ford Hospital has that type of program with the Nursing program at Henry Ford Community College.

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Thank you both so much for the information! I am in Tampa, Florida and I dont think they have programs like that around here. I'm basically trying to weigh my options with nursing school. My original undergrad was in International Business and Finance and i work full time in the finance industry but I feel like im ready for a change. At the rate I'm going now taking prereqs for the LPN program at Hillsborough Community College (18 month part time night program) I will not be able to start the program for another year. I'm really excited to get this started!!! I'm also thinking about trying to do my LPN through a vocational school. There are quite a few down here that only take 12 months. but then again im troubled with the time frame because they are not accepting new students until 2011! Catch 22 huh?

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try contacting your state and local hospital associations as well as the state board of nursing. they may know if any of these programs exist. it is usually the hospital associations that know of them because they are acutely aware if there are any shortages of nurses in your state or local area and how the local healthcare community is dealing with it. often, many different organizations work collectively to encourage the training of nurses where there are shortages. another group that might have knowledge of what is going in is your state department of education, especially if they have a special division for the education or re-education of adults. i would also call the nurse recruiter at several of the acute hospitals in the area where you live and chat with them about your circumstance. if they have been recruiters in the area for any length of time they will know what nursing programs are there and can tell you about some of them. some hospitals will have auxiliaries that offer scholarships to nursing students, but you have to know about them and apply for them. it probably wouldn't hurt to pull up the list of rn schools in your state on the florida board of nursing and contact each of them to see what financial aid for nursing students is available. specifically, call both the financial aid office and the nursing department of each school and ask them if there are any special programs in place to help people attend nursing school that have limited finances.

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Thank you so much for your help! I will definitely look into everything~~:D:yeah:

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