OIS Navy Internship questions

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Specializes in L& D, High Risk Antepartum.

I am a MECP candidate that is just about to graduate on May 4. I report to OIS on July 9 and was just wondering if anyone had been recently? I have 12 years enlisted and no not as a corpsman. I was wondering if the difficulty had changed as of the new regs that came out in Jan 07?

My second thing is I am going to NMC San Diego and was told I would be reporting into the Nurse Internship program. They told me the hours would be varied and I as wondering if anyone had been though it and what it was like?

Thanks in advance,

Allison

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Specializes in ER,ICU and Progressive Care Unit,Peds.

Allison,

See my other post for info regarding the nurse intern program.

OIS is a lot harder now than what it used to be. I graduated from OIS a yr ago. They now have red ropers that do the training, and Marine DI's that work with them. There's a lot of yelling and pt. You will get yelled at; you will do pt and drill pretty much everyday. You will get up at the butt crack of dawn or before dawn most everyday. Not much freedom for the 1st 3-4 wks. We only got on base liberty on the weekends on like the 3rd or 4th wk. Also, we didn't get off base liberty until the wk before graduation. So its no longer fork and knife school. On the 1st morining your are awaken by screaming, bull horns, and alot of not nice things. Actually, you are woke up like that for like the 1st 3 ams.

It will be pretty similar to what you experienced in your enlisted bootcamp.

Over half my class was prior enlisted and they said that they felt like they were in boot camp all over again. Any other questions?

At least you will be there when its warm; I was there in the winter. It was cold, windy and rainy for most of my time there, which just made all the crap we had to endure worse.

ENS PM

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Specializes in ER, Trauma, US Navy.

The Mrs. went in '03 and it sure had changed from when I went in '97. I thought it sucked that we couldn't go off base until the 3rd week, wow you guys have it way rougher.

LCDR(s) Dan

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Specializes in ER,ICU and Progressive Care Unit,Peds.

Yes Sir, OIS no longer a walk in the park....so hopefully recruitiers will stop tell people that....I was so lied to! I had such a rude awaken when I got to OIS. So I try to tell people what is really like now, so there is no surprise.

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