National Health Service Corps Scholarship

Today I started the application process for the NHSC scholarship program.
I have been waiting all year for the application process to become available. It finally is available starting today at: https://scholarship.bcrs.hrsa.gov/Login.aspx

Hopefully I will be qualified and get the award because it would pay for all my educational costs + Health Insurance + monthly stipend and other reasonable costs. Then after graduation I would then in return work for the amount of school years that they provided funding as an employee in a public health center or Indian reservation of some sort.

I am not entirely sure that this is the right avenue to take, but since the scholarship is so competitive I thought that I would at least apply for it and see if I get it, and if I do--then I could really make the decision.

To visit the NHSC website click the following link:
http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov/

CPR Certification?----No Problem!

Today I got my healthcare Provider CPR certification. It is required for school. About a month ago I got an email from one of the ATSU faculty saying that one of the 2nd or 3rd year students is offering classes for $30 if you wanted to wait until you got down there. That is a good price because I did some research today and a lot of the local places cost around $40-$60. The classes I researched from places like Red Cross, etc typically were two 3-4 hour sessions.

Well I want to tell you about the coolest website that I came across. It is called www.cprtoday.com.
I emailed Joyce Haynie at ATSU about the site to ensure that it would qualify for my required CPR course. She said that it did. The site actually offers different levels of certification and I just needed the Healthcare provider level. Well I began to register and saw that the cost was going to be $39.95--not too bad. Then I noticed there was a field on the registry form for discount codes. I did a quick google search and found a code at https://www.sittercafe.com/firstaid_n_cpr.asp

The code was 2AC59C and with this you got a 10% discount
So my final price was $35.95

Well the best part of all this is that I sat down after the kids went to bed and read through the material, took the exam, and had my certificate of completion all within under an hour! I was also able to save a pdf file of the certificate for later printing.

Talk about a convenient and painless process. The material is very straight forward and it does a great job in helping you learn what you need to know.

Two thumbs up for www.cprtoday.com!

Medical Assistance in Arizona

The website for Arizona's health care assistance program is:

www.azdes.gov/faa/medical.asp

Click here for the application