graduate nurses in Navy and Air Force

Oct 20, 2009 09:50 PM

by huskers24

I am graduating in December with a bsn and have contacted both the Navy and the Air Force. I talked with an Air Force recruiter on Friday, who had me fill out a prescreen form which I immediately filled out and sent back to him. It’s Tuesday and still haven’t heard anything back from him. The Navy is a different story, I have called the recruiting office for my area at least four times and still have had no replies in the past two weeks. Are these recruiters that busy that a response is difficult for them or are they disinterested in a recruiting a graduate nurse. I have read some of the posts on here and it seems that the application process can take quite a while so I would like to get started as soon as possible any suggestions on what else I could be doing?

adammRN · Oct 20, 2009, 11:13 PM

Re: graduate nurses in Navy and Air Force

Did his message machine say if he was out of the office for any reason? I live in Missouri, and have had contact with 4 Air Force recruiters. When my primary one was out of town, I could contact one of the other 3. I don't know about the Navy's personnel.

There is no way that the military would not be interested in a prospective graduate nurse. Some other people with their bachelors in the AF do not get the sign on bonuses/loan repayment that nurses do. One big reason for this is to try to attract more of us to singing up!

I contacted my recruiter in July of this year, and have been slowly grinding through the governments gazillion gears... I expect to leave for COT in Jan 2010, pending my selection.

mobro · Oct 21, 2009, 10:27 AM

Re: graduate nurses in Navy and Air Force

the board for reviewing new nursing applications meets in a couple weeks so it is likely that the recruiter could be really busy. i would just call every couple days and check back in. my recruiter would get a call/message from me about every other day!
as for the navy...i called about ten times and left messages for people that would "return my call in a day or two" and absolutely never heard anything back. i also called the air force reserves and they were super nice/helpful/easy to get hold of- but in the end i decided the reserves weren't the way to go. long story short, the lack of availability is one of the reasons why i never pursued the navy.

aglages · Oct 22, 2009, 11:00 PM

Re: graduate nurses in Navy and Air Force

Originally Posted by mobro

as for the navy...i called about ten times and left messages for people that would "return my call in a day or two" and absolutely never heard anything back.

1-800-USA-NAVY to obtain the number of the closest healthcare recruiter to you.

carlyfry · Oct 23, 2009, 05:10 PM

Re: graduate nurses in Navy and Air Force

Originally Posted by huskers24

I am graduating in December with a bsn and have contacted both the Navy and the Air Force. I talked with an Air Force recruiter on Friday, who had me fill out a prescreen form which I immediately filled out and sent back to him. It’s Tuesday and still haven’t heard anything back from him. The Navy is a different story, I have called the recruiting office for my area at least four times and still have had no replies in the past two weeks. Are these recruiters that busy that a response is difficult for them or are they disinterested in a recruiting a graduate nurse. I have read some of the posts on here and it seems that the application process can take quite a while so I would like to get started as soon as possible any suggestions on what else I could be doing?

I feel you. I have called my local naval medical officer recruiter hundreds of times and even e-mailed her but no response. I'm guessing she's pretty busy but some sort of response would be nice.

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