Army Nurse Corps FY2013

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Hey everybody, I'm starting a thread here for those applying to the Army Nurse Corps in FY2013. I figure this might be a good place to get to know other future nurse corps officers and a place for the veterans of the ANC to pass on some advice.

Share your story and hopefully we will meet down in San Antonio this Winter/spring of 2013

Ill start with my story,

I am a 28 y/o critical care nurse with 2 years experience in a level 2 trauma center in Virignia. I passed MEPS at Ft. Eustis and have submitted security packet, letters of reference and letter of intent.

I am applying to the October review board for Active Duty Army Nurse Corps for the 66H8A(critical care) and 66T(trauma) programs( I am not sure if they are still running this one, but you don't get what you don't ask for).

I am happily married with a baby on the way, my wife is 100% behind a move the Army and I feel blessed to have her love and support.

The road to the Army has been a long one with a degree in Biology, stint as a drug rep and return for an accelerated BSN.

I love being a nurse and love working in critical care. I hope to serve my country in uniform treating service members & their families at home and in forward deployed units.

I want to be an critical care nurse and officer in the U.S. Army and I hope that I will get to meet all of you in uniform at BOLC, at MEDDAC, CSH or FST in CONUS or OCONUS.

Here's to all us achieving our dreams of becoming Army Nurses!

HOOOOOOAH!

- Maybe since I am still a student and don't have any work experience it took a shorter amount of time?

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Regarding giving notice to employers, I agree with jeckrn -- it's best to be up-front with your employers about it and let them know now. My managers wrote my letters of recommendation, so they knew the whole time what my goals were, and they were supportive. I realize not all situations will be the same, but the sooner they know, the better. Chances are you'll be leaving for BOLC in March. I personally didn't get my orders until March, but put in my notice anyway -- at least at my fulltime job, I held on to my PRN job a little longer just in case. ;) Hopefully your employers will be very proud of you, as being selected speaks to the quality of their choice of employee, especially in times that are so competitive.

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Specializes in Anesthesia, SICU, CICU.

MTB, If you are not on the OML and you were not a non-select then you are one of the ten selects. There are only three options... The known lists are non-select and OML. If you are not on one of those then there is only one other option.

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DaniRN, i am on the same boat. My recruiter told me i was selected but with pending waivers. I am currently active duty soldier. When i asked them what the waiver was for. He told me that it could just be scrolling, he did not tell me what specific waiver it was. Can scrolling be considered as a waiver? Since, I am already enlisted, most of my stuff should be good (at least that's what i assume). He told me to call back sometimes next week to find out more. And also i guess nobody knows how long does this scrolling takes. Other than that i am ready for San Antonio. Its beautiful out there.

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Specializes in CVICU/MICU.

VT, that its true but until I have a confirmation I'm not going to say I'm in. I'm most likely selected for the program and excited as all heck, though! I'm pending further confirmation or whatever they are doing with my app at this point, so I'm just waiting for the final word until I go out and celebrate.

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Has anyone from the OML been picked up yet?

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Specializes in Critical Care.
VT, that its true but until I have a confirmation I'm not going to say I'm in. I'm most likely selected for the program and excited as all heck, though! I'm pending further confirmation or whatever they are doing with my app at this point, so I'm just waiting for the final word until I go out and celebrate.

I'm excited for you MTB!! Let us know!!!

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Specializes in CVICU/MICU.

Irishliz thank you very much. I definitely will.

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Specializes in Emergency, CCT.

A little update for me:

I commissioned on the 1st of Nov, and was advised to sit tight and wait for orders. A few weeks went by and I called, and they had the orders in the recruiting office. No mention of how long they had them though!

I'm going tomorrow with the recruiter to pick up some uniforms. I can go on my own to get an ID card. There is no Army post for hundreds of miles, but there is Balboa Naval Medical Center that has an AAFES store with Army uniforms.

I'm not sure what the next step will be after uniforms and ID. My home unit is about 12 hours away but I am attached to APMC; most of my drill should be with a local unit.

-Migz

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Regarding giving notice to employers, I agree with jeckrn -- it's best to be up-front with your employers about it and let them know now. My managers wrote my letters of recommendation, so they knew the whole time what my goals were, and they were supportive. I realize not all situations will be the same, but the sooner they know, the better. Chances are you'll be leaving for BOLC in March. I personally didn't get my orders until March, but put in my notice anyway -- at least at my fulltime job, I held on to my PRN job a little longer just in case. ;) Hopefully your employers will be very proud of you, as being selected speaks to the quality of their choice of employee, especially in times that are so competitive.

I have a question that maybe you can help me with Lunah, I spoke with the assignment manager for the Nurses at HRC and she told me my wife would probably go to Walter-Reed for her first year, Being dual military and having children we were wondering what the schedule was like while you were completing your preceptor or the first year of "training" as a new Army nurse? I am scheduled to take a BDE at Bragg so we are trying to figure out who will take the babies for that year.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

I came in as an experienced ER nurse, so I had three weeks of orientation to my ER before I was on my own. It's likely she'll be doing 12-hour shifts, though. I work three 12s one week, four 12s the other. Sorry that you two won't be stationed together. :(

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Sorry to chime in so late here but I have a quick question on once your in BOLC as a new grad for some of you Army Nurses. I am completing the AECP program in MAY so will be slotted sometime after that. I see most of this thread is from already established nurses who are coming in through a recruiter. As a new grad and a AECP Soldier do anyone have a quick snap shot of how long it takes to get orders once you have passed the NCLEX. When you do get orders will it include my first duty station? And lastly, should I expect my first duty station to be a MEDCEN? From my understanding you spend a year of less as a bed side nurse before you can apply for a specialty, does that sound right? I am currently a medic with 8 years in and going to school in Houston.

Perhaps if anyone knows if I was at a TDA unit as enlisted will it knock out my chances of going there as an officer? I have been already to MAMC and spent the last 4 years in D.C. with the process of closing Walter Reed.

Thanks

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