Navy Nurse Candidate Program Summer 2013

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I was accepted to the Navy Nurse Candidate Program back in January 2012. I will be graduating this coming August and hopefully be at ODS sometime next fall!

I just wanted to post and see if there is anyone else that will be graduating around that time on here. We have a pretty good Facebook group page for my School of Nursing class, and I think we should get one started for the NCP summer graduates...but we have to have people to add to the group to make it first!

Holler if you're out there!

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I'm graduating in August as well. Any idea where you may be going? I had a message from the detailer left on my phone last week but haven't been able to get in contact with him yet.

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Rob J,

I have Bethesda, MD down as my first choice and then Portsmouth, VA as my second. I'm really hoping for my first choice! I haven't received a call from the detailer yet, but I am eagerly awaiting any information as to where I will be!

Any idea where you are going yet?

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I'm glad to hear other people are graduating in August! I'm also impatiently waiting for the detailer to call me back. My first choice was San Diego and then Portsmouth.

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Hey guys

I'm graduating in August, a former Navy Submariner and hoping to become a Navy Nurse. I don't want to hi-jack your post but haven't been successful in finding much info on the application process and how it works. Would any of you mind emailing back and forth some questions I've got?

thanks

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Hey guys

I'm graduating in August, a former Navy Submariner and hoping to become a Navy Nurse. I don't want to hi-jack your post but haven't been successful in finding much info on the application process and how it works. Would any of you mind emailing back and forth some questions I've got?

thanks

I'd be happy to answer your questions. NCP is kind of tough to find out about unless you find someone that is in it or someone just happens to know about it.

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Found out that I'm going to San Diego, tentatively of course. Anyone else know where they're going?

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So I know this post is for y'all to help find each other... But, this is the first one I've seen with people who actually did decide to go with the Nurse Candidate Program. I am considering it, haven't talked to a recruiter yet. Anyone care to tell me all about it? Pros/Cons, why you went with it, how you feel about it now, what you are excited/apprehensive about? Any feedback is appreciated!

Thanks

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I just took my oath on the 3rd of May and graduate from nursing school in December. Have a couple of questions for those of you who are further in the NCP process than I am. (and what a process it is!)

When did you guys fill out your dream sheets (your top 3 picks)? I never filled one out and I'm not sure if I should have when i did all the rest of my paper work. My recruiter never said anything about it.

When do you expect to know where you are going? I have heard 3 months before you graduate, and I have also heard that you don't know until after you pass your NCLEX which is cutting it a little close so I'm hoping that's not the case. Not much time to plan a move if it is :cautious:...

Do you get an ID card to get on base yet? I swear I read somewhere than you get an ID card but now I can't find where I saw that at and I'm not sure if I should have one of those either.

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slc1984 - the request for your dream sheet comes from Bethesda. I graduated in May and filled mine out in Aug/Sept. If you just took your oath, it may just be that it is taking some time to process things. I didn't find out where I was going until March. Just get used to waiting :-). I think for Dec grads they found out in Oct/Nov. It isn't final though until you pass your NCLEX. You can get an ID card, but it is for reserves as you aren't active duty. But you are entitled to one and if you go to the NCP website for current students you should be able to find a link. If you wait until you commission, then it would be an active duty one and you will only need to get it once.

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Thank you oaktown2! I'm good at waiting as long as I know I'm not waiting on them because they are waiting on me to do something that I don't know I'm supposed to be doing :) Before I took my oath the NCP felt precarious, like it could be taken away at any point. Now that I have taken the oath it is only slightly less precarious! I just don't want to screw anything up.

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You are actually entitled to Tricare (the member only) once you're sworn in as a Reserve member and you're waiting to go active duty commissioned (or you're in DEP as an enlisted member). I know this because I did it.

Your family is not covered, but you are. The base I got my ID card at got snippy about it so I suggested they contact our service's personnel office at Randolph AFB with their questions. She did, I got in DEERS (Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System), got my card, and I got my Tricare details squared away. Family members can get a Reserve dependent ID card, but no Tricare. (Dependent ID cards are only truly handy if you live near a base, which we did. Several, actually.)

Apparently they started doing that a few years ago to avoid the problem of people showing up for basic training in varying states of health because they'd had no health insurance in the weeks leading up to their report date. Most officer recruiters don't tell you because for some reason, they don't seem to know. But it's in the DOD regs.

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