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Thank you for your interest in the Nurse Candidate Program (NCP)! The Nurse Candidate Program is designed for full time students at a brick and mortar school (on-line curriculums do not qualify) within 24 months of completing their BSN degree. It offers a $10,000 entry bonus that is paid in two $5,000 installments, one at the start of the program and the second 6 months later. In addition, you receive $1,000 per month given as $500 twice per month. There are no other financial incentives for this program. It does not cover tuition, fees, books or equipment. The maximum participation in the program is 24 months. While in the program, you are officially in an Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) status. You do not drill, and cannot be deployed. For up to 12 months of benefit, you are obligated to the Navy to serve 4 years on active duty and 4 in the Individual Ready Reserve. For 13 – 24 months of benefit, you are obligated to the Navy to serve 5 years on active duty and 3 years in the IRR. Once you graduate and pass your NCLEX examination, you are commissioned and attend Officer Development School in Newport, Rhode Island for 5 weeks and from there you move on to your first duty station. New nurses are often assigned to one of our medical centers in Bethesda, MD; Portsmouth, VA; or San Diego, CA, but you could also be assigned to one of our larger community hospitals. You work with an assignments officer, which the Navy calls a "Detailer," to obtain your assignment once on active duty. We do not often send new nurses to our overseas hospitals. To be eligible for the NCP, you must be a US citizen, be at least 18 years old and able to complete 20 years of commissioned service before the age of 62 (so you must graduate from your BSN degree program and be on active duty by the age of 42), be enrolled or accepted into a full time ( not on-line) accredited (by NLNAC or CCNE accrediting bodies) BSN program, be within 24 months of completing your BSN, have a GPA of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale, be a full time student in 2 semesters or three quarters a year, and must pass the physical requirements (female standards available at: http://www.navy-prt.com/femalestandard/femalestandard.html); male standards: http://www.navy-prt.com/malestandard/malestandard.html). Here is the site for NLNAC accreditation: http://www.nlnac.org/Forms/directory_search.htm . Here is the site for CCNE: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/CCNE/reports/rptAccreditedPrograms_New.asp?sort=sta te . Here is the information on our Website regarding the Nurse Candidate Program: http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/navmedmpte/accessions/Pages/NurseCandidateProg ram_Prospective.aspx

A direct email I received from a nursing officer hope this helps Thank you for your interest in the Nurse Candidate Program (NCP)! The Nurse Candidate Program is designed for full time students at a brick and mortar school (on-line curriculums do not qualify) within 24 months of completing their BSN degree. It offers a $10,000 entry bonus that is paid in two $5,000 installments, one at the start of the program and the second 6 months later. In addition, you receive $1,000 per month given as $500 twice per month. There are no other financial incentives for this program. It does not cover tuition, fees, books or equipment. The maximum participation in the program is 24 months. While in the program, you are officially in an Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) status. You do not drill, and cannot be deployed. For up to 12 months of benefit, you are obligated to the Navy to serve 4 years on active duty and 4 in the Individual Ready Reserve. For 13 – 24 months of benefit, you are obligated to the Navy to serve 5 years on active duty and 3 years in the IRR. Once you graduate and pass your NCLEX examination, you are commissioned and attend Officer Development School in Newport, Rhode Island for 5 weeks and from there you move on to your first duty station. New nurses are often assigned to one of our medical centers in Bethesda, MD; Portsmouth, VA; or San Diego, CA, but you could also be assigned to one of our larger community hospitals. You work with an assignments officer, which the Navy calls a "Detailer," to obtain your assignment once on active duty. We do not often send new nurses to our overseas hospitals. To be eligible for the NCP, you must be a US citizen, be at least 18 years old and able to complete 20 years of commissioned service before the age of 62 (so you must graduate from your BSN degree program and be on active duty by the age of 42), be enrolled or accepted into a full time ( not on-line) accredited (by NLNAC or CCNE accrediting bodies) BSN program, be within 24 months of completing your BSN, have a GPA of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale, be a full time student in 2 semesters or three quarters a year, and must pass the physical requirements (female standards available at: http://www.navy-prt.com/femalestandard/femalestandard.html); male standards: http://www.navy-prt.com/malestandard/malestandard.html). Here is the site for NLNAC accreditation: http://www.nlnac.org/Forms/directory_search.htm . Here is the site for CCNE: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/CCNE/reports/rptAccreditedPrograms_New.asp?sort=sta te . Here is the information on our Website regarding the Nurse Candidate Program: http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/navmedmpte/accessions/Pages/NurseCandidateProg ram_Prospective.aspx

This is an email from my email box from a nursing officer hope this helps ... Thank you for your interest in the Nurse Candidate Program (NCP)! The Nurse Candidate Program is designed for full time students at a brick and mortar school (on-line curriculums do not qualify) within 24 months of completing their BSN degree. It offers a $10,000 entry bonus that is paid in two $5,000 installments, one at the start of the program and the second 6 months later. In addition, you receive $1,000 per month given as $500 twice per month. There are no other financial incentives for this program. It does not cover tuition, fees, books or equipment. The maximum participation in the program is 24 months. While in the program, you are officially in an Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) status. You do not drill, and cannot be deployed. For up to 12 months of benefit, you are obligated to the Navy to serve 4 years on active duty and 4 in the Individual Ready Reserve. For 13 – 24 months of benefit, you are obligated to the Navy to serve 5 years on active duty and 3 years in the IRR. Once you graduate and pass your NCLEX examination, you are commissioned and attend Officer Development School in Newport, Rhode Island for 5 weeks and from there you move on to your first duty station. New nurses are often assigned to one of our medical centers in Bethesda, MD; Portsmouth, VA; or San Diego, CA, but you could also be assigned to one of our larger community hospitals. You work with an assignments officer, which the Navy calls a "Detailer," to obtain your assignment once on active duty. We do not often send new nurses to our overseas hospitals. To be eligible for the NCP, you must be a US citizen, be at least 18 years old and able to complete 20 years of commissioned service before the age of 62 (so you must graduate from your BSN degree program and be on active duty by the age of 42), be enrolled or accepted into a full time ( not on-line) accredited (by NLNAC or CCNE accrediting bodies) BSN program, be within 24 months of completing your BSN, have a GPA of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale, be a full time student in 2 semesters or three quarters a year, and must pass the physical requirements (female standards available at: http://www.navy-prt.com/femalestandard/femalestandard.html); male standards: http://www.navy-prt.com/malestandard/malestandard.html). Here is the site for NLNAC accreditation: http://www.nlnac.org/Forms/directory_search.htm . Here is the site for CCNE: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/CCNE/reports/rptAccreditedPrograms_New.asp?sort=sta te . Here is the information on our Website regarding the Nurse Candidate Program: http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/navmedmpte/accessions/Pages/NurseCandidateProg ram_Prospective.aspx

If you have your BSN in Nursing then you'd join the reserves as an officer unless you do want to enlist. Reserves youd have peace of mid you'd be close to your family at all times and can have a civilian job as well ; may it be at the base hospital or something . I have been reading for the last couple of months and will be choosing navy reserves . Speak w a health recruiting officer not just a recruiting office and any personnel they have direct numbers for officers . Also look into getting some of your schooling paid back there are a few options ; good luck !

A little less than $28. Living in the bay area CA. Over 4 years licensed ...

gosh here I go to work and DREADING when I get there, Im going in a bit earlier to chart and get ready to get my butt chewed ...

LVN here, but have already made mistakes and feel awful , I wish I could shake this 'beating myself up' but it always lasts a few days. My main error was an insulin error believe it or not, though what happened was the pts sugar was so high it didnt even register on our machines, it just read 'HI' so I told my supervisor which we grabbed another machine to recheck and got the same results .. checked the MAR and gave the allotted dose which was 14u, then I was to recheck in 2 hours. After I rechecked it was 487, I looked per sliding scale, drew the dose and gave it to him , HELLO? what was I thinking? I gave him an extra dose of insulin , I think it was just the auto pilot, but I got written up and of course we monitored him all night, he was very compliant and said the highest hes been was in the 800s.... I felt AWFUL ... then another time I was just 2 doors down medicating a GT patient, her tube is slow so I allow plenty of time, in the meantime one of my aspiration/GT pts was choking, he had a lot of this happening on a daily basis, but this time he turned blue and there was a family member who just ran out to the other nursing station, never bothered to yell for help,so by the time I came out of the room where I was there were 4 nurses in there suctioning him,o2 sat, etc etc, I felt really DUMB! then tonight I made an error of calling 911 to send my pt out who ended uo being a Hospice pt. when I realized I cancelled the call but it was too late they were already there so they had to assess the pt. the supervisor was really ticked at me.... ugh. I had to come here to type .. whats worse is when I got home I realized I forgot to chart on this pt., why why why ME? whats worse is for the next 2 weeks all eyes will be on me ... like Im this awful horrible nurse that doesnt know anything, thats how it is at my work...

..havent yet applied! been working floor as LVN since March , but hope to get in next year ... didnt know the old post was mine until I re read it !!! Im sooo anxious to finish !

sorry, I dont come onto this site very much .. slow to respond. The boards doesnt have a pass rate because we are the first batch to grad. since Concord campus is new. From what I know so far .. we have a HIGH percentage who passes boards compared to san mateo which SM has been going for 4-5 yrs now ( I think). So far I think only one student failed ... Ive been working now since March 6th. I took boards in Feb. passed the first time. I studied my brains out. The school was good for the most part .. although after you work you find things that you never learned .. Im glad Im done and working and past all of that .. it was a sure stressful time in my life ... I will get my RN but not until next year. Right now really, VN in itself is a TON of responsibility... Im in NO rush to jump to RN until I get my experience ... good luck to you .. JulZ

Graduated Nov.15th 07 and began work March 6th , 08. Im still in serious DEBT ..it will take forever,ugh. Good luck ...!

go with the old saying 'never depend on anyone else but yourself' and watch your back ... only you are the most responsible for your actions, so pay the extra few bucks a year to have your own insurance. Mine I think was only something like 38 bucks a year ... Im sure you make that in an hour pay, so like in nursing school we learn cover your own a**!!!

I know how you feel .. Ive made a huge mistake at my job, I felt HORRIBLE for days and days ...but know that it will pass in time and bottom line is you learned from it. Im a perfectionist, so for me to even make a mistake made me feel even worse, but I am human, and so pick up your feet, move along ... next time just know you will know now! good luck to you ...

Hope this doesnt sound weird, but can you tell me exactly the day to day of your job as a scrub nurse? right now Im LVN in SNF, my long term goal is cosmetic/plastic and the other day I was looking at jobs and seen they were hiring a RN for OR and said they had a VN for scrub, I thought hmmm maybe if I scrub then gain my RN I can move up to that position in the same company rather than work the ladder in more than one job... thank you !

I know I have posted here before .. just got my first paycheck and Im happy .. they pay time and a half for any over time ... if a nurse pulls a double shift time and a half first 4 hours and then after that double .. which together making almost $700. Benefits awesome.. glad so far .. eventually get my RN... and flu clinics are 35/hr I plan to do that flu season ...

wow thats odd. did you try craigslist.org? Try there... I seen jobs there some encourage new grads. what about your clinical sites where you did your clinical rounds? Thats where Im working now .. literally passed boards, drove up on a monday to get my temp license went to clinical site tues. and started that thurs. I have been there almost 2 weeks now. I needed to start paying off bills. they started me off 25/hr and they have good benefits and pay time and a half when we are staying over... which of course is nearly every night. I work PM shift.. its really crazy, Im exhausted but soon I will get everythign down. my boss literally was calling 2 weeks before I even got my results from boards... good luck!

Start for me SNF $25/hr. And even though I have been in health care 5 yr. Im "new" So this is new grad. rate.. but this is also where i did my clinical rounds through school and they were calling me to offer me the job and of course I accepted.. when my 90 days is up Im hoping to exchange benefits (health/dental) for higher pay since I independently have my own health and dental for daughter and I. So Im hoping to increase to 27-28$/hr.

No worries! Everyone feels some sort of anxiety.. I passed with 86? weird number and drove to Sac to get temp license and have been working now almost a week ... Have faith, try to pass the time with positive things.. like a walk, picnic, bike ride or lunh w friends ... good luck!

Hi all! How is evryone doing? Hows NCLEX coming along? Anyway last night was my first night on the floor by myself, though my class mate aloso applied there we had the cart together, and man oh man what a mess! Im already feeling like I wanna cry. The CNAs were really mean .. although Im not taking it to heart, one resident had a GTube that was supposed to be started @ 6pm, I didnt get to it until about 9pm. One resident had a fever and was sent out to hospital and two other pts. "fell" although not realy fell , like slid to ground but we have to write an incident report. It was crazy and no one really told us much about charting or a weekly report I had the worst headache of my life and the last 4 hours were HELL. Im slowly learning that every single pt. chart at least something... A&O x3, ate well, took meds well, was in bed watching TV, something so then @ the end of the night you just copy all of your notes into chart w out trying to recall... also I didnt knwo we were supposed to take each chart and log every single vitals from the CNAs binder.. man oh man its about close to 2 hours of charting on top of meds and treatments. Im doing to 330-midnight right now... what did I get myself into?!!!! I hope all of your NCLEX studies are coming along .. I havent thought about studying anything for a while.. I almost miss when I was studying for NCLEX! Also today I checked boards and my name is finally on the website! It pays to take the drive to Sac those who lives in CA .. it only took 4 days for my name to appear and my class mate took almost 3 weeks , he mailed his in... :heartbeatJulz

Yes I agree sometimes when they do poop-yay! when they dont then get prepared to maybe do a fecal impaction and put in a suppository ... and also another thing that is sometimes hard is when they have a colostomy, but just learn to not breath in w out passing out!

My advice is really, the studying is the most difficult, just stay disciplined... !! Set whaTEVEamount you need.. 3 weeks, 4 weeks, etc. and literally act like you are your own DRILL SARGENT! All of us have it in us!!!! It is the worst part and once thats over.. then its our test date.. do what you are comfortable with I actually studied the night before and also reviewed the day of!! I even loaded some books with me on the passenger seat and was going to thumb through before I entered the test site but once i paked the car I looked over and decided not to ... the day was perfect, sun was out, found parking, got there early... so I walked in and the rest is history. If you cant study because youre not feeling up to it, then pile your books in the car and drive to the bookstore.. once youre there you have no choice! Thagts what I would do .. and though yes it did suck! I made it through 4 weeks because I told myself if I didnt study what else would I be doing? nothing but being lazy and a procrastinator... and really, take that time because the end results will reflect your discipline you dont want to retake it because you slaked off, do you?! I knw I sound like a drill sargent but I know you can do it... let the mean you get insdide your head and push you to the MAX! because when you get your passing grade you will be thanking that mean person!!!! my faith is with all of you! also I got my job today! hired on the spot and I start Thursday!!!!! Im freaking out! I have a lot of things to finish up tomorrow before heading to work ... Im still here rooting for all of you!!! :heartbeatJulz

Nursing salaries are all different. there is no set rate, really.. only ballparks. If I were you I would check out salary.com or Im sure there is a thread specifically geared towards your question.

Even family has judged me! Having very little excitement for my LVN and when I mention RN they sound much happier. Im at my wits end.. because I have done it all on my own .. no husband, no family.. being a single mom. my husband passed away in 97 and basically had to start a life out here in CA ( he was military) and this is where I am. I also bought a home and have been a very good mom to my daughter. eventually I will pursue RN but sick and tired of when I say Im a nurse , oh a RN? now Im just brushing it off... this is MY life and if they all have something to say.. try just a month or two in nursing school... doubt anyone could hold a candle!

yes I have seen this ... replace may just be the wrong term used... but theyd rather have MAs rather LVNs for pay reasons... so in hosp. the MAs do the check in, blood pressure, history data, chief complaint, can do the simple UA, spin the urine, send specimens for culture ICD/CPT code, blood pressure .. that sort.. and sometimes you seen LVNs doing the same exact stuff! Funny because I would never keep doing thsethings over after going through almost 2 yrs of nursing school!! Now I want to do other things like med pass, catheters, heparin and insulin therapy, have exp. with trachs and vents., etc. So yes... hosp. do replace LVN w MA for cost reasons and esp. out here in CA.

I guess its just my system.. Ive never been able to eat when Im on edge.. I guess because of the para/sympathetic systems.. flight or fight increased then para decreased which slows digestion.. i dont know? anyway I took a job @ my clinical site.. in fact they were saving a slot but then I got all of these calls.. but I thought it over and I think since my long term goal is RN I will be more picky when Im RN right now Iam going w a place where they know me.. Im not going to try to prove myself and some new place.. been there done that, just need a job to pay off my debts, nursing school has certainly put me in the hole ... Im sure you will all dooo GREAT!!!

In my case i had lost weight. I felt so sick , anxious ugh, I hated that feeling. I couldnt eat because I had too much on my mind. but since I got my results and went to sac. ro pick up my temp. license 2 more jobs called me yesterday including UCSF! Im not sure what to do right now ... Im getting over a cold so probably think about it and maybe start somewhere next week. good luck to all of you! Again I swear by Kaplan Qbank because their style of questions will ease your anxiety. Because they are set up so similar to NCLEX you will feel right at home. I also found Hurst very good .. I didnt really care for Saunders. Im actually putting all of my nursing books away today! Its about time to clean out my trunk of my car!! It was a suitcase while i was in school! hehehehe GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:heartbeat-- Julz