aura_of_laura

aura_of_laura has 8 years experience and specializes in mental health, military nursing.

Latest Activity

1. Reserves/Guard Nursing w/ Perm Profile

   aura_of_laura replied to mmills63's topic in Government

   How had you been handling your guard PT tests? Can't speak for the Army, but I can't see the AF commissioning you on a permanent profile. Long-term inability to run is enough to get you med-boarded out, even once you've already got your commission...

2. Air Force Nursing Corps

   aura_of_laura replied to AirForceNursingCorps's topic in Government

   I'd recommend checking with your local reserve or ANG unit - that's something that varies by location, can't say I've ever seen it done by active duty units.

3. psych nursing

   aura_of_laura replied to taytay05's topic in Addictions

   I think you're jumping the gun a bit - you will get to experience a wide variety of nursing roles when in school, which will help you find where your interests really are. And the great thing about nursing is that you aren't typecast - you can work i...

4. Air Force Nursing Corps

   aura_of_laura replied to AirForceNursingCorps's topic in Government

   In response to RayRN87: Four years of civilian RN (not BSN) experience are needed to come in as an O-2. You get 50% credit for any civilian nursing experience. Re: aei09a: You don't need to work med-surg first. L & D is one of the specialties th...

5. Reserve or Guard Nurse but NOT a nurse full-time

   aura_of_laura replied to ImThatGuy's topic in Government

   Really? That seems a little odd to me.For active duty, you can't even work as a psych RN without a few yearsof experience under your belt, and then you have to wait a year toapply (and another year before you can attend if accepted) for AFITfunding t...

6. rules for military nursing -- disappointing :(

   aura_of_laura replied to RN_survivor's topic in Government

   Hmm. I personally know at least one new AF nurse who went to school overseas (Russia), not sure if it was accredited by those agencies... A second opinion never hurts.

7. Seeking advice from Air Force nurses,

   aura_of_laura replied to HK26's topic in Government

   I concur with wbtcrna. If you go of your own free will, your command will never even know unless something comes out that could be risky - like hallucinations, or homicidal thoughts. It actually shows good judgment to meet those problems head-on. Ano...

8. One year later... (AF nursing)

   aura_of_laura replied to aura_of_laura's topic in Government

   Feel free to PM me, I'd be glad to answer your questions :-) As for Keesler and Elgin, no, there are no MH nursing jobs. A lot of recruiters seem to confuse MH RNs with MH NPs or techs, who go pretty much anywhere.

9. One year later... (AF nursing)

   aura_of_laura replied to aura_of_laura's topic in Government

   There should be slots at Travis coming open, I know we have a few people PCSing in the next month or two. I'll PM you if I find out more. Best of luck in the boards!

10. One year later... (AF nursing)

    aura_of_laura replied to aura_of_laura's topic in Government

    A few questions I forgot to respond to: Night shift - We all have to do a rotation on nights. On my unit, we usually work two months of night shift, and then 4-6 months of days. It does vary, though - I haven't been on nights since last June. Chart...

11. One year later... (AF nursing)

    aura_of_laura replied to aura_of_laura's topic in Government

    They are opening an inpatient mental health unit at Elmendorf late next year, to serve PACAF (this will allow PACAF - Japan, Korea, Alaska) to keep their people in majcom for med-boards, instead of sending them to Travis patient squadron. Unfortunat...

12. USAF 2012 NTP Board

    aura_of_laura replied to LN75's topic in Government

    I didn't go through NTP because I already had several years of nursing experience - I think anyone who has less than one year of RN practice goes through NTP. There are only a few locations to do NTP, Scottsdale, AZ, Wright-Patt, OH, and I think in F...

13. Air Force Nursing Corps

    aura_of_laura replied to AirForceNursingCorps's topic in Government

    I had a Sq CC pull someone back from AFIT the week before they were supposed to start (after the almost two year application and waiting process). There were people that outranked the Sq CC advocating for that person, but the Sq CC had the final deci...

14. One year later... (AF nursing)

    aura_of_laura replied to aura_of_laura's topic in Government

    They told me the same thing about going overseas, that I'd almost certainly get to because of my experience (my whole dream sheet was in Europe) - not until I got out of COT did I find out that mental health TECHs can go overseas, but mental health n...

15. One year later... (AF nursing)

    aura_of_laura replied to aura_of_laura's topic in Government

    Hi, ATLRN! I went to COT last January, so I've been working at my base since last February. Travis AFB is great! It's close to San Francisco, the beach, Napa, the redwoods, the mountains - really, everything. And the weather is ALWAYS beautiful. My b...