COT 10-04 nurse to 10-05

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Specializes in ED. ICU, PICU, infection prevention, aeromedical e.

I am in week 1 of COT. I have some ideas you may want to jump on. Since they were major challenges this week.

Get your uniforms complete!! Get you name tapes and rank sewn on your ABU's at all costs. Do up the buttons and get strings off. Wear your boots!!! I wore mine hiking a couple times and still my feet are bruised.

Get yourself some kind of portable web link device. Mine is from sprint. It costs $60 a month. Money well spent. No one else can get online barely.

Bring a printer, extra ink, paper, scissors, tape, etc. Be prepared.

There have been some really amazing challenges already and there are more to come!!

Specializes in Med/Surg, APU/PACU, Peds, Flight.

thanks so much for the heads up!

i am not going till 10-06, but i am definitely going to copy and paste all of this information.

If you have an iPhone or other type of smartphone, you'll have no problems getting a web connection through it.

TAKE A REAM OF COPY PAPER - I forgot this until just now. (Mid, I do apologize!) For some reason they hide paper from you - it does seem as though some of this is deliberate just to see how you'll handle it, and then some of it I think they just don't think about it. I took two reams of copy paper and ended up using it to print stuff off in their copier!

Do you get your uniforms beforehand? My husband (he was infantry) said he got those in basic.

How many suitcases can you bring? LOL!!!!

BTW, I am sure you are doing Great :o)))!!!! Take care.

Officer training is different from enlisted training, regardless of what service you're in. Officers receive a very small one time clothing allowance (in the AF it's $400) and are issued nothing. We spend about $1200 to $1600 on uniforms to go to COT.

Essentially you can take what you want to COT; I can't speak for the other services.

Specializes in ED. ICU, PICU, infection prevention, aeromedical e.

I got my mess dress before hand. They changed the requirement just one week prior to COT. We do not need it! So I have a $500 outfit that I will probably never use. anyone need one? lol

on your list: at least 3 PT uniforms. lots of white socks. white exercise sport bras. sick meds (2 people in my flight are sick). a bunch of empty folders, and a three ring binder with divider tabs is really helpful to me (but not for all).

Pooh, I had the paper memo. I brought some with the printer. :)

You'll wear your mess dress (if you want to, that is) - I've already worn mine twice.

Good point, Mid - you can take your antihistimines and vitamins and whatever OTC stuff you use; you're not checked for that sort of stuff. Take Bandaids, too - they run out of that stuff in the OTS Shoppette pretty quick.

Specializes in Med/Surg, APU/PACU, Peds, Flight.
on your list: at least 3 PT uniforms. lots of white socks. white exercise sport bras. sick meds (2 people in my flight are sick). a bunch of empty folders, and a three ring binder with divider tabs is really helpful to me (but not for all).

what size 3 ring binder? massive or small. ha.

Thanks for the heads up. Uniforms, paper, tylenol, motrin, vitamins, white socks, paper, ink, printer, internet access. Appreciate the heads up!

Specializes in ED. ICU, PICU, infection prevention, aeromedical e.

binder size - not to big to fit in your hand comfortably. Mine is the 1.5 inch. It works great. I filled it with paper, paper dividers, and sheet protectors. Wish I had one of those pen holders you can keep in it.

about suitcases. Whatever you can carry! I had 3 suitcases, my labtop backpack, and a box (my new laudry basket!). You can go back to your car the first day later in the eve to get settled. But then whatever you left in your car is off limits.

Thank you for the information.

Specializes in med/surg, oncology.

Thanks and good luck. What about books? Are there recommended books for a completely non-military person to read prior to COT?

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