Navy Reserve Nurse Corps,,??

[Maverick_USN]

Hey everyone,

I have some questions about reenlisting in the reserve as a Nurse Corps.

a.) If you are prior military, and you've done your time,and finish BSN school, Can u enlist again in the reserve area as a Nurse Corp?

b.) If you can do it, how long do u have to stay?

Thanks,,

[ND_RN]

You don't enlist, you would go in as a direct commissioned officer, with rank depending on experience years as a nurse. Also, there are some great incentive bonuses for reserve nurses, depending on your area of experience, but even general nursing gets one I believe.

There are others on here that are great assets to the forum...and hopefully you will also hear from them.

I am hoping to be Navy reserve in a few months, with a pretty good sign on bonus. $30,000 for ER experience. Just waiting for paperwork and the physical.

The other difference is that, since you don't enlist you do direct commission (if you have a BSN) and you go to officer training school, which is about 2 weeks, and that's it. No other boot camp. Then your weekend drill committment and 2 weeks a year. Deployable sometime after you finish officer school. I have heard different times, most say about a year after officer school.

Also, if you type in navy reserve in the search box, you will get a slug of good posts to read from.

Good luck!

[ND_RN]

Oh yeah, forgot to answer your other question. Committment is 3 years active reserve for sure, then 5 other years (either active or inactive)

Also, if you have school loans to pay back, they have awesome loan repayment bonuses (up to $50,000 I think)...you need a longer committment of active, if you take that route. Depending on how much you need paid back. Have a good day.

[Maverick_USN]

Thank you sir for your responsed.

So u mean if you choose to be in the reserve u still have to go in active duty?

I think reserve is better.Well, maybe I'm just saying this right now. I saw a bunch of messages here they were talking about how to go active. Perhaps Active duty is better, but I really want to serve in my community and still continue to serve my country.

-The idea is I want to finish my BSN after I get out of the Navy and then come back as a Navy Nurse Corps officer. I'm going to use MGI Bill and maybe TA:D.

[FF2RN]

Hi. Great posts on here.

Tons of helpful info. Anyway, my question is to those both in the candidate process and those already commissioned, for a direct commission into the Navy Reserve Nurse Corps are candidates required to take the Officer Aptitude Rating (OAR) test just like the AD candidates going into Navy OCS?

Thanks.

[midwesternboy]

You don't have to take any test. All you must have is your BSN and have passed your state nursing boards. In other words, you must be a full-fledged nurse. Good luck with the process, it can take a wee bit of time.

-recent BSN