Army Nurse Corps FY2013

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Hey everybody, I'm starting a thread here for those applying to the Army Nurse Corps in FY2013. I figure this might be a good place to get to know other future nurse corps officers and a place for the veterans of the ANC to pass on some advice.

Share your story and hopefully we will meet down in San Antonio this Winter/spring of 2013

Ill start with my story,

I am a 28 y/o critical care nurse with 2 years experience in a level 2 trauma center in Virignia. I passed MEPS at Ft. Eustis and have submitted security packet, letters of reference and letter of intent.

I am applying to the October review board for Active Duty Army Nurse Corps for the 66H8A(critical care) and 66T(trauma) programs( I am not sure if they are still running this one, but you don't get what you don't ask for).

I am happily married with a baby on the way, my wife is 100% behind a move the Army and I feel blessed to have her love and support.

The road to the Army has been a long one with a degree in Biology, stint as a drug rep and return for an accelerated BSN.

I love being a nurse and love working in critical care. I hope to serve my country in uniform treating service members & their families at home and in forward deployed units.

I want to be an critical care nurse and officer in the U.S. Army and I hope that I will get to meet all of you in uniform at BOLC, at MEDDAC, CSH or FST in CONUS or OCONUS.

Here's to all us achieving our dreams of becoming Army Nurses!

HOOOOOOAH!

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

I don't think the scrolling takes place before you hear anything, because it took FOREVER (felt like) for me to get through that scrolling process, and I found out long before any scrolling. Ugh, I'm nervous for all of you!! This is like a bad flashback. LOL

Specializes in Anesthesia, SICU, CICU.

Lunah - I was reading your BOLC recommendation article and in the comments you mention a optional pre-BOLC course for direct commissions. What does this entail and if you go, do you get paid?

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
Lunah - I was reading your BOLC recommendation article and in the comments you mention a optional pre-BOLC course for direct commissions. What does this entail and if you go, do you get paid?

Yes, you get paid. :) You'll just show up for BOLC a bit earlier than the other folks -- I think it's two weeks earlier. Ask your recruiter about pre-BOLC information WHEN (yes, WHEN! :)) you are selected. All of my direct commission friends who attended pre-BOLC found it very beneficial.

Results are out, unfortunately non- select, but will try again next year! Good luck to you all!!

Results are out, my wife was selected. There is a problem with the scrolls of the selectees, that had to or more years of experience, so the scrolls will take some time. But she was selected s a 1st LT, and we are super excited.

armysupport- I am so sorry to hear that. next year hopefully there will be more people selected.

Nurse spouse, do u know how much experience everyone has? And or areas of specialization? Just disappointed this is decline 3

Specializes in Critical Care.
Results are out, unfortunately non- select, but will try again next year! Good luck to you all!!

So sorry to hear the news :(

Specializes in Critical Care.
Results are out, my wife was selected. There is a problem with the scrolls of the selectees, that had to or more years of experience, so the scrolls will take some time. But she was selected s a 1st LT, and we are super excited.

armysupport- I am so sorry to hear that. next year hopefully there will be more people selected.

Congrats to the wifey!!! I just called my recruiters office--he's out on leave for the holidays so I begged the secretary to ask someone there to look up the results. I hope they'll do it. I just would like to know one way or the other....

Nurse spouse, do u know how much experience everyone has? And or areas of specialization? Just disappointed this is decline 3

I do not know of the experience I can tell you what she had,

4 years of nursing experience, 3.8 or 3.9 gpa, assistant nurse manager forher floor, and has a CMSRN which I guess is the med surg certificate. She was picked as 1st LT, and will be doing a critical care class(4 months long) after BOLC.

They said shewill not be commissioned till her first duty station though due to some scrolling issues they are having. has anyone else had this problem before?

again I am sorry to see you werent selected. The recruiter said there were lots and lots of applicants though.

Congrats to the wifey!!! I just called my recruiters office--he's out on leave for the holidays so I begged the secretary to ask someone there to look up the results. I hope they'll do it. I just would like to know one way or the other....

good luck to you, wow recruiter picked a terrible time to leave lol.

Nurse spouse, I am going to remain optimistic, only 1.5 yr exp in OR, no certifications etc. though GPA not as high, keep trying I guess

Specializes in Critical Care.

good luck to you, wow recruiter picked a terrible time to leave lol.

I just spoke with my recruiters sgt and he said he just checked and my results are still pending :(

I thought they released results at the same time??

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