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Hey everyone, I have been an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner for the last 5 years, the last 2 being in Critical Care. I am really wanting to join the Air Force or Navy as an ACNP, but information is scarce.
I need to know if anyone here has been an ACNP in the military, what your duties were if so, and how you went into the military. My Navy recruiter wants to dual credential me as a Critical Care BSN bedside RN and as an ACNP. The Critical Care RN is to "get my foot in the door."
It may still be worth it even if I have to do some bedside work because I want to serve, but I do not want to be at the bedside the entire time and lose my skills. I already do central lines and intubations. I will be learning PICC lines soon and hopefully arterial lines. One of the neurosurgeons is looking to possibly credential and precept me for ventriculostomy insertions, if we can get enough opportunities. Obviously, I would not be doing much of this at the bedside.
Anyone have information or know someone who does?