Brianna Lewis

Fourth-semester nursing students Alyssa Boyle, Paige Brinkerhoff, Shalyn Henstra and Katie Merrell have been accepted into the Veterans Affairs Student Trainee Experience Program, or VA-STEP. This is a competitive opportunity, providing a year of paid clinical training to Bachelor of Science in Nursing students; it also fulfils the BYU College of Nursing capstone requirement for graduation. These students applied for limited and highly sought-after places in the program, and all four of them were accepted. Paige is excited to be part of the VA-STEP: “I feel like not a lot of people know what it actually entails and how cool it is.” According to these students, these “cool” aspects include flexible work arrangements, excellent mentoring, and meaningful service.