HEALTHCARE EXPERIENCE
The goal of healthcare experience is to provide the applicant with direct patient contact experiences within a
healthcare setting. It also provides applicants the opportunity to learn if a career in healthcare is a good fit.
The healthcare experience template needs to be completed, and signed by your supervisor in the healthcare
setting and submitted with your application. Points will be awarded from only one category - the category that results
in the highest point value. Up to a total of 5 points for work experience or 2 points for volunteer experience can be
earned. Work experience and volunteer experiences are not combined.
Final point allocations are determined on each individual application by the Nursing Admissions committee. All
decisions made by the Nursing Admissions committee are FINAL.
HEALTHCARE EXPERIENCE
WORK EXPERIENCE
VOLUNTEER
EXPERIENCE
*Must have been completed
w/in 2 years prior to application
REQUIREMENTS
No work experience
Less than 6 months
More than 6 months
At least one year
100-200 HOURS
>200 HOURS
Points
CRITERIA
Points
2
Health-related experience typically requiring less than six months’
training with certification and no work experience
1
100-200 hours
2
Health-related employment typically requiring less than 6 months
training, no certification, WITH work experience
2
> 200 hours
3
Health-related employment with certification and 6 months or more
current work
4
Advanced Health-related employment with 6 months or more current
work experience
5
At least 1 year current experience from the examples provided in the
3 and 4 point sections above.
EXAMPLES OF QUALIFIED HEALTH CARE EXPERIENCE
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WORK
VOLUNTEER
2
Certified nurse’s aide (CNA) certificate (current), no
work experience
Camp for Campers with Terminal or
Chronic Medical Conditions: 24 hour
care; medications; monitoring diets;
overseeing meals
2
Home Health Aide (HHA) or medical assistant
(certificate), no work experience
Cancer Institute/Education Center:
Providing cancer information for families
2
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) I –certification
(current), no work experience
Clinic: Shadowing a provider, nurse,
doula,
2
Pharmacy Technician – certification (current), no work
experience
Missionary Health Volunteer : Weighing
and measuring babies, children, and
adults; taking vital signs and patient
histories;
2
Veterinary Assistant with 6-months current experience
Working with the Red Cross to provide
annual exams
2
Ward clerk with 6-months current work experience
Same Day Medical Unit/Urgent Care
Clinic Volunteer
2
Phlebotomist with 6-months current work experience
School Nurse’s Office: Volunteering
weekly assisting a school nurse
2
Lifeguard with 6-months of work experience
Spending time with a practitioner in a
rural healthcare setting
2
Scribe in emergency department, with 6-month
current work experience
Hospital volunteer with direct patient
contact (i.e. interacting with patients:
setting up meals with patients).
2
Doula with 6-months current work experience
More than 6 months experience
3
CNA or HHA Hemodialysis Technician
3
Pharmacy Technician Certified /Veterinary
Technician/Technologist
3
Medical Assistant / EMT I/
Advanced with more than 6 months
4
Paramedic or EMT II certification / Corpsman
certification
One year or more current experience
5
