Air Force Nursing Selection Boards Nov 2016

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Did anyone else apply for the November 2016 USAF Nurse boards? I am applying as a fully qualified ER Nurse (46N3J). Today (Dec 2) was the earliest day the board may have released results, but nothing has been released as of now (5pm PST), so I'm guessing we won't hear anything until next week.

Just looking to network with other potential USAF RNs!

Hello everyone! I've been following this thread since September. I'm applying for FQ January 27, 2017 board AFSC NICU. I'm a prior enlisted and I've been out for about 3 years now. I'm curious because my recruiter is in a hurry of scheduling me for physical at MEPS, he said I need to have it done before Jan. 20. My packet is not even submitted yet and no there's no guarantee that I will get selected. Does this happen to anyone of you? Also, which AFB location is NICU usually get assigned? Thanks!

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Specializes in Emergency / Trauma.

Hi, Dream031224! Beginning with these past nurse boards, the AF Healthcare Recruiting Service is requiring that all nurse candidates have already passed MEPS before the board begins. We were granted an exemption from this rule, because they made the rule right before the November Board started, so it would have been impossible to get all those candidates through MEPS at the last second. However, moving forward, all future boards require candidates to have already cleared MEPS.

As for NICU locations: JB Langley, SAMMC, Landstuhl, Kessler MS, Lackland TX, Travis CA, and Kadena Okinawa.

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Thanks [COLOR=#003366]jfratian[/COLOR], she has about 4 years ICU experience so now I am really confused. Are you pretty sure about the two sites being the only option for OR training? Will update when recruiter comes back online. Much appreciated.

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Thank you for the info Concomitance! About the NICU locations, Kessler and JB Langley are the preference locations that are not on my list. And actually, I'll be happy to go to JB Langley. My is daughter is the Navy assigned at Virginia Beach. If I ever go there, I have a chance to visit her on my liberty.

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Does your wife have any OR experience? I know they had slots for nurses that wanted OR but had no OR experience this FY.

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I know that when I interviewed they told me they were looking for 15 fully qualified OR nurses but they didn't say for ones with no experience. When I worked at SAMMC they had the OR course there for new OR nurses. It's a great hospital

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My recruiter stated they had 5 slots this FY for experienced nurses looking to be OR nurses and this is the first year they had it. My recruiter wanted me to apply for it but 2 slots had been filled on the Aug board so there was only 3 slots left.

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Specializes in Telemetry, ER.

Hi all!

I wanted to write in and say that recently I found out I was selected as an ER RN for the Air Force!

COT date: August 2017

Assignment: SAMMC, Texas

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I'll be in that COT class as well!!!

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Specializes in Emergency / Trauma.

Congratulations, nursynurse111! Awesome to see another ER RN get selected! We'll be going to COT together! Join our COT Facebook group. Search Facebook for: AF COT 17-06

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MEPS scheduled for 20 January.... Assignment: Eglin AFB (ER/Trauma) - COT Date 14 Aug 2017.... BTW. Requested to join the FB page for this COT date...

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See you there :-)

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