I haven't posted much but I'm currently in the process of applying for the new graduate nursing boards for the Air Force. I graduate with my bachelors of nursing in May!! I thought it would be nice to connect and see if anyone else is applying for the new graduate board selection. My recruiter told me they meet and make decisions in July. If I get it, I'll be heading to COT in October!
Currently, the recruiter has me picking out bases that I would like to be selected at for NTP. I'm also awaiting a medical exam date. If anyone has any input on great places to start out my nursing career, let me know!
Any updates or new people applying for NTP this summer?? I just had my chief nurse interview, and everything is board ready to be sent in a week or so!! I also just found out today that December grads can't apply to the NTP this year!! I had no idea, but that's probably part of why there are less applicants!
I started reading many posts on this helpful website. I want to join to the AF or Navy. I have a ADN with 7 months of telemetry experience in a hospital. I have only 1 class left and I will be graduating in December with BSN. When can I apply? is the AF meets only once a year? I read that the process in the Navy takes about a year, is it the same for the AF?
I contacted a recruiter via email and I filled out the prequalification sheet. My GPA so far is 3.7. I registered for ACLS and PALS for July. what other license/certification do you know that can help me to get in?
Well you're too late to apply this year, and you wouldn't be allowed since you graduate in December. But you can apply next year for the Air Force NTP, they generally meet in June or July so you work on your packet until then, getting all the requirements. I suggest looking through past year's threads to get a feel for the competitive nature of this. In case you don't know, the minimum GPA is now 3.5 and last year over 300 people applied for 40 spots. I can give you more advice in the future if you're truly interested!!
I'm not a lady, but I will be happy to help you out. You're not eligible for NTP, since you'll have more than a year of experience by the time you apply. You will be applying as an fully qualified nurse by the time you get your BSN (competing against other experienced nurses).
If you want to go ER, you absolutely must get over there now! You'll have to jump through all sorts of hoops (months of training and extra years of military commitment) if you wait until you join the military to switch to ER. You need at least 1 year of full-time ER experience to come in with the ER specialty code. Get board certified in ER (CEN is the best), get TNCC, ENPC, and ATCN certs.
Oh I forgot about the ADN experience there, I assumed since she was getting her BSN this coming December she'd be eligible. Woops. Listen to Jfratian! XD
You would need to contact a healthcare recruiter in your area, make sure they are healthcare not general or enlisted. For the Air Force they change the number of openings each time depending on what they need. So one year may have 3 critical care spots, another year may have 12, just depends. For NTP (new nurses no experience) they've had 40 openings the past few years (35 med-surg, 5 OB). I don't know about Navy though
Excited about joining this thread and possibly meeting some of you in the near future at COT!
My application to the NTP is complete and I interview with the Chief Nursing Officer this Friday. Would love to get some background info on some of you who are applying-such as if applying ob or med - surge route, GPAs, previous nursing or military experience. It's always nice to get a feel as to where you stand.
So a little bit about myself-
Applying for the OB route- only 5 positions open- my recruiter has 2 ob applicants and about 20 med - surge
GPA 3.8
No previous military experience
3 yrs RN experience with an Associates Degreee(this will be cut in half and I would rank up to O-2 within a month of being in)
Single no kids
For those who have interviewed already, How did it go? Did they give you any feedback, if they felt you may be a good fit or not?
They'll give you feedback if you ask usually, but I'll tell you that of all the people I've met/read about, about 90% of them have positive wonderful interviews...I rarely hear about a bad chief nurse interview. Which is interesting considering they count the interview so highly, yet everyone does so well so how can it rank high? Also, it's interesting that you can't apply for FQ since you have nursing experience, or was it as an LPN not an RN? That will give you "somewhat" of an advantage, but at the same time the NTP is for less experienced nurses anyways.
About me, I graduated in December 2014, 3.74 GPA, married no kids, 23 yr old, no military experience but my husband was Active Duty Army until this month (he's now out and on to college), applying for med-surg, and I started working in April at a PCU/ICU.
It is 3 years RN experience, but because the years of experience I have are in a community health center and not in an inpatient setting they said I go the NTP route not FQ, but that my years of experience will still count towards rank. I am actually very happy with this since it's hard to compete with nurses who have been doing it for a very long time. I have outpatient prenatal care and nursing supervisory experience hoping this makes up for my lack of military experience. Btw my interview was wonderful! Won't get too excited since like you mentioned almost everyone gets excellent feedback. Now It's a waiting game.
Ahh I see why it didn't count. Well like I said, it may help since it's experience, but at the same time I've read a lot of posts saying if the experience wasn't in the relevant field they apply for, it isn't counted as highly. Sortof like if I work at a nursing home, then look to apply for critical care they'd look at my experience and say it wasn't relevant at all. I believe it will help you, not hurt you, but I'm also not on the board P=
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Any updates or new people applying for NTP this summer?? I just had my chief nurse interview, and everything is board ready to be sent in a week or so!! I also just found out today that December grads can't apply to the NTP this year!! I had no idea, but that's probably part of why there are less applicants!