Air Force Nursing 2013

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Hi everyone,

I just recently started the process to apply to be an Air Force nurse. I'm trying to complete my packet for the January 2013 (Feb 19-Board, Mar 08-Decision). Anyone else currently starting or in the process? Any advice with gathering my information?

Any current Air Force Nurses that could give me insight about their experience, especially regarding their first assignment?

My husband is about to separate from the Army and we are used to that way of thinking and doing things (i.e. lots of misleading information, less family oriented, less options regarding career). My recruiter had mentioned that everyone goes into a general clinical nurse slot, but is given the opportunity to specialize into a department of their choice after one year. My initial response was "Yeah... riiighhhttt." I don't actually believe that I would be given such a choice so soon, but I'm not sure if that is only because of our experience with the Army. Can anyone enlighten me??

Thanks!!

So I just found out that I have been medicaly disqualified for a kidney infection that I was admitted to the hospital for FIVE years ago! We are disputing it but MEPS docs disqualified me even with medical records. That is madness...

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Specializes in MED/SURG.

hey taytay,

man, that sucks. is there any waivers that you can get for that?

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Specializes in Clinic Nursing, Family Planning, OR.

No way! I'm sorry to hear that Taytay. Do they give a reason why that would be disqualifying? Hope to hear you can get a waiver. Good luck!

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Specializes in Clinic Nursing, Family Planning, OR.

Does anyone know the deadline for application submission? I had a meeting with my recruiter on the 17th to sign my application but he was not in his office when I got there and hasn't responded to any calls or emails since? I'm assuming he took leave for the holidays but now I'm getting even more anxious about the deadline.

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Specializes in MED/SURG.

hey Jilly,

I have my CN interview again this friday (the 4th) and I will ask him. I wanna say its sometime at the end of January but I am not for sure but when I hear something I will let you know. Hopefully all of us get told the same thing. That frustrates me when we all hear something different. Talk to you soon.

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Hello Everyone,

I am techinically finishing up my sophomore year of nursing this spring, but already have a Bachelors from a state school. I am in the process of looking into Air Force or Navy Nurse Corps. I've been told to not get one through the people at places such as the mall, but to go through an actual nurse corps recruiter. I am interested in the ER. Once I finish my nursing program I will have about 10 years of experience as an EMT in EMS (started in high school). I have looked on the websites and they don't really give much information. At least the Navy doesn't. If anyone could help me on getting in touch with a recruiter I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd like to find out numbers such as GPA etc.

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Specializes in Clinic Nursing, Family Planning, OR.

Good luck on Friday Kdazzle!

EMT,

Yes, definitely try to speak to a health care recruiter because its a different process in itself. I used the locator on the AF site to connect me to the health care recruiter for my region (Pacific Islands). Unfortunately, the closest Navy healthcare recruiter was in California and never did answer my calls. It can be a very long process as we're all finding out, so it's best to start collecting info about your options now (NTP vs. fully qualified). Good luck with the rest of nursing school!

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Hi Kdazzle. I see you live in Cincinnati. Do you mind me asking who your recruiter is?

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Hi Kdazzle. I see you live in Cincinnati. Do you mind me asking who your recruiter is?

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Specializes in MED/SURG.

hey zacheus81,

Well, my recruiter is out of town doing some training so I have been dealing with a few people in his office. I am not sure if we are aloud to give out actual names on this site. Are you from cincinnati too?

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Kdazzle, yes I live in Cincinnati, too. I'm new to this site and was unware u couldn't give out names.

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hey zacheus81,

I am not sure if you are or are not suppose to give out names. my recruiter that I am working with is Ssgt ******. Is that who you have? There were some other that were taking over for him when he was on a 6 week training in florida but he is back now. Who is your recruiter?

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