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  1. What is your Nurse to Patient Ratio

    cobber replied to dRN1's topic in Medical-Surgical

    We use a nursing acuity index where patients are rated, from 1-5 on their accuity (a typical pt with few or no complications is a 3). On the day shift an RN can take 12 points, RN/LPN team 22, RN/NA...

  2. Army - Your 1st assignment and deployment

    cobber replied to Renee4christ's topic in Government, Military

    I am about 8 months into my first assignment at Tripler and the residency program is not yet in full swing...we are still transitioning from the prior "internship" program, which is simmilar but those...

  3. Is military nursing honestly better or worse than civilian?

    cobber replied to Dino's topic in Government, Military

    Dino... I'm a new army nurse and I've been working at Tripler Army medical center in Hawaii for almost 4 months now...I'm on a 24bed medical-oncology unit and I am liking it a lot so far, since I've...

  4. Army Nurse deployment?

    cobber replied to Gennaver's topic in Government, Military

    "I think its longer if you are assigned/profis's to a unit, you stay with them." The memo that we recieved said that all profis assignments (meaning that you are deployed with a unit that you are not...

  5. Army Nurse deployment?

    cobber replied to Gennaver's topic in Government, Military

    Gennaver I thought that loan diferment for military only applied if you are depolyed, but the wording in the link you provided is not that specific...so it may apply for any active duty....but it does...

  6. Army Nurse deployment?

    cobber replied to Gennaver's topic in Government, Military

    Student loans are not diferred but there are loan repayment programs if you're willing to commit a certain number of years to active duty. Its a good option if you are planning to remain active for a...

  7. Army Nursing

    cobber replied to hoplinger's topic in Government, Military

    I joined through the army nurse canidate program during my jr year and got a montly stipend during while I was finishing my degree then I recieved my commission after graduation and went to officer...

  8. Army/Military Nursing

    cobber replied to midwesternboy's topic in Government, Military

    I'm at my first duty station as an Army nurse in Hawaii...and there were at least three nurses (probably more but three in my platoon) from my basic trainning class who went to Germany as their first...

  9. Very frusterated about Army Age Requirement

    cobber replied to NathanDH's topic in Government, Military

    I'm an army nurse and i remember our nursing director saying that you only have to be 18 to be commissioned...this came up because for some reason my paper work when I was inprocessing when I got to...

  10. First name or surname?

    cobber replied to Scooter321's topic in General Nursing

    It really depends on where you work and what the expectations are there....I am an army nurse in a millitary hospital and we are required to wear our uniforms complete with last name and rank at all...

  11. unofficially officially

    cobber replied to Gennaver's topic in Government, Military

    Congrats....now off to OBLC...it's almost here.

  12. Aug 5th OBLC

    cobber replied to Gennaver's topic in Government, Military

    Very true Gen...It will be good for us....hard...but

  13. My OBLC experiences

    cobber replied to IU95's topic in Government, Military

    I still have not recieved my OBLC orders but when I talked to the LTC in charge of the ANCP/AECP students...she told me that it would be 11 weeks long but my PCS orders for Hawii put me reporting...

  14. Aug 5th OBLC

    cobber replied to Gennaver's topic in Government, Military

    I'm in this class too. I'm still trying to get myself ready. I'm excied to get started.... but not so excited for the time away from my boyfriend. Oh, well...we'll survive.

  15. Have PCS orders and now NCLEX date, if good, then "ORDERS"

    cobber replied to Gennaver's topic in Government, Military

    Good luck on your NCLEX gen....I took the kaplan course and have a whole sheet of "NCLEX rules" that came in pretty handy for me...let me know if you want it and I can send it to you. I'm still...

  16. Tripler ?

    cobber replied to lovingmom's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks kcalohagirl! Maybe we'll will run into each other....I won't be there till end of Oct. Any info you have is certainly welcome. Good luck with applying.

  17. Tripler ?

    cobber replied to lovingmom's topic in General Nursing

    jdtrn.... I'm wondering if you can tell me a little bit more about tripler....I am a newley graduated nurse and just starting my commitment to the army and I have been assigned to tripler after basic...

  18. Need studing Help!!

    cobber replied to josinda421's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I'm not an LPN student but I just graduated from an RN BSN program...but I fully understand long reading assignments. nrsn4me had some great suggestions....just to add to that its almost impossible...

  19. What to expect as an Army nurse?

    cobber replied to roswell's topic in Government, Military

    Ahhh...that makes

  20. What to expect as an Army nurse?

    cobber replied to roswell's topic in Government, Military

    This is prolly a dumb question....but what is the difference between the ANCP and the AECP? I am in the ANCP and heading to OBLC in

  21. My OBLC experiences

    cobber replied to IU95's topic in Government, Military

    Thanks IU95....that does help. I am going to try and find out if there is a place that I can try things on, but like I said, my recruiter has not been a wealth of information thus far. Thanks

  22. My OBLC experiences

    cobber replied to IU95's topic in Government, Military

    I've kinda been passed from one recruiter to another...and the person who I think is my current recruiter is at a different location...so that's some of the confusion...but I will see what he has to...

  23. My OBLC experiences

    cobber replied to IU95's topic in Government, Military

    I'm going to OBLC in Aug and I am new to the army and have no millitary background at all...so I'm a little bit lost. I was just wondering about the PT uniform...I was looking on one of the sites to...