Army nurse transition program possible changes

[spawnupe]

Just wanted to let everyone know that there are new changes being discussed by Big Army concerning the Army Nurse transition program. Basically, we were told that we will no longer rotate throughout the hospital. You will report to your unit, precept with one preceptor and work in Med surg. Then after a year, we will go either Mother Baby and Peds. Did anyone else hear anything about this?

[Rose3721]

We've heard that instead of rotating throughout the hospital first in phase 2 then precept for 12 weeks that you will do your preceptorship on your assigned floor first then rotate around. One of my biggest complaints in this program was that we were rotating everywhere but had no idea where we were going to be assigned. Everyone would ask us "which floor will you be on?" and we could never answer. Coming from my leadership though, you will still do rotations throughout the hospital.

Here the Med-Surg floor wasn't big enough to accomodate all the LTs at once so we had half precept on mother baby for 6 weeks with the other half on med-surg for 6 weeks then switched. Some got permanently assigned to Med-surg, some to mother baby, some to L&D, some to PACU, and NICU. Because they brought so many new LT RNs at once they couldn't put us all on Med-surg, so it kind of worked to our benefit. :)

For Peds, those of us that have told our leadership that we want to do peds have been told that we will float up to peds for a month at a time. They won't assign us there because our facility doesn't get a lot of inpatient Peds. Big Army is trying to bring back Peds as a specialty for Army nurses so I wouldn't be surprised if some ANs got assigned there.