[midwesternboy]

Hello,
Does anybody know anything about Womack Medical center? Is it a good place to begin a military nursing career? I've been to their site, but they don't seem to have too much information. I know they have inpatient units, but most of the material is about their clinics, mother/baby, OR etc. Thanks for any help!
-Recent BSN

[Cursed Irishman]

My advice: go to jump school.

[IRCNursing]

I have worked there when I was a student and go there as a patient, being a military wife. They have anything and every field you could think of. The floors that I worked on seem to work together and would be equiv. to any other hospital. Services are a little slow as far as a patient situation. You can work in the ER, ortho, medical floor, ob/gyn, stepdown cardiac facility. They usually ship out trauma to Cape Fear or Firsthealth in Pinehurst.

[Jarnaes]

I worked there for a few years. It's a good place to start out. They have a decent patient population, and if you work on the medicine floor you will also get experience with some interesting diseases that the special ops guys pick up in foreign lands.
WAMC is located in Ft Bragg, so if you get tired of the day to day nursing stuff, you have plenty of interesting units to play with. Lots of deployment opportunities with the combat support hospital, forward surgical teams, etc etc.
Like the previous poster said, go to jump school before you get to Bragg. Once you are working as a staff nurse on the floors- they will keep a death grip on you: "WAMC is not on jump status, so there is no reason for you to go".
Good luck.

[midwesternboy]

Thanks for all the information. I've never been to NC so I am sure it will be a change (coming from the Midwest, farming community).
-recent BSN

[nuberianne_RN]

What is jump school?

[Jarnaes]

Slang term for Airborne school, the school that teaches soldiers to jump out of airplanes.
https://www.infantry.army.mil/airborne/airborne/