Questions concerning Army Reserve Nurse Commission

Are the requirements an ADN and current NCLEX license?
Yes.

Any nursing/health care experience other than clinicals during school required?
No you could be a new grad. Exp may enable you to commission with an identifier ie specialty (ICU, PSCYH - gen requirements are show on 'goarmy.com')

What percentage of applicants are granted a commission?
To many variables... they have annual requirements. Applicants or do you mean competitive applicants or those that make it to the board (passed physical, assemble packet etc) - probably pretty high

How easy/hard is it to transition to Active Duty after receiving a BSN or MSN if already in the reserve?
To transition to active duty reserve? It depends on the slots available in your area -
To transition to 'regular army' (lot's of people refer to this as active duty... ) you need to complete your reserve obligation and then can proceed.. it's doable.

Age requirements or restrictions?
Age - it's on the goarmy.com website - less then 42 if you don't have prior service. I do believe they have some waivers now for those older then 42 with no prior exp....

You can join the reserve up to age 46 1/2 without a waiver..up to 50 with a waiver. You have plenty of time so dont sweat it!!

Hey all
there's a new thing w/ the reserves you can join up up to age 60 for two year committment.




see the post about it in finalapproach's thread dated 12/17 by JD Citizen

Wow! Thats interesting.