Navy Reserve Nursing

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Specializes in OB/GYN.

I will be graduating in May 2009 with my BSN.:) I am interested in joining the Navy Reserves nurse Corp. If there are any navy reserve nurses out there if they could answer some questions for me or just tell me about typical duty assignments and locations. Thanks!!

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Specializes in Ambulatory Care, ED.
I will be graduating in May 2009 with my BSN.:) I am interested in joining the Navy Reserves nurse Corp. If there are any navy reserve nurses out there if they could answer some questions for me or just tell me about typical duty assignments and locations. Thanks!!

Anyone on this board in the Navy Reserves?

I am interested in the Navy Reserves as well! In the process of applying now.

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Specializes in Treating burns, and gun shot wounds.

Hello,

My wife is a nurse with 2 years of experience under her belt. She talked to a San Diego Reserve recruiter. They had told her that she would come in as an 0-2 with a 10,000 sign on bonus. She could be stationed at any reserve base around the world. But i told her to go active because that's the way to go!! HOOYAH!

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

I have just under 7 years experience as a nurse and my recruiter informed me that I would go in as an O-1 unless the nursing boards decided to give me something higher. As of yet, my packet was submitted in April and I am still waiting to hear back.....

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Specializes in EMT, ER, Homehealth, OR.
I have just under 7 years experience as a nurse and my recruiter informed me that I would go in as an O-1 unless the nursing boards decided to give me something higher. As of yet, my packet was submitted in April and I am still waiting to hear back.....[/quote

Have you had your BSN the whole time you have been a RN. If not the Navy will only count the time after you got your BSN. Also they along with the other services will not count some areas of nursing, like long term care etc.

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To caveat... the ARMY's AMEDD has it's own board and ability to commission and you can have grade and time in service for being an officer from another branch.. they determine it on an individual case where as there is a regulation that defines the 'formula' for grade determination when someone arrives with initial commission with RN experience.. my guess is navy has something similar..

of course if paperwork is not submitted.. or issue is not explored then of course you'd naturally default to entry level ;) Google is great for regulations and such all of it is available and you can explore a lot on your own.

That being said if you are doing a full career let me voice my opinion that you might view those 01-03 years as good years that allow you to gain a footing and such vs going straight into massive responsibility ;) with no sense of how military works, despite prior RN experience, and thus potentially not being setup for success...

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