COPE Health Scholars Reviews

If you do this program, be prepared to deal with poor management and many issues. A classmate warned me about some of these issues before I joined the program, but I didn't really understand until I was in the program. COPE Health Solutions is first and foremost a money making business. They essentially make money off the Health Scholars (unpaid volunteers). The hospital pays COPE and you must pay COPE to be in the program. You are working many hours as an unpaid volunteer, and they still find ways to make more money off of you. Unfortunately, you are often treated as child and receive condescending emails. You never get an email saying: "hey, we appreciate that you are putting your heart and soul into this unpaid work." The training for the health scholar program is insufficient and disorganized. You are mostly trained by unpaid volunteer student leadership who received very little training themselves. They also run most of the program. This results is little standardization in the training and unprofessionalism when you are a scholar. There are a million rules, and you are held to high standards. They don't hold themselves to these same standards. My advice is if you are considering this program, get your NAC license and work as an NAC instead unless you specifically need to volunteer.

-bad leadership -strict rules about things that don’t even concern patient care