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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 team 16, and an RN/LPN/NA team 25. Teams can take ...

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 of us still finishing in the internship program a...

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 been here our nurse/pt ration is 4:1 or better...wh...

"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 stationed with)will be relieved after 180 days......

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 say that diferment is only up to three years so i...

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 while anyway.

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 basic trainning in aug right along with my ROTC coun...

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 duty station....but Germany is in pretty high dema...

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 my duty station, my paperwork said I was 18...rathe...

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 times(even in psych wards) and we are expected to g...

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

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

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 there only a day or so after we would be done if it is...

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. Lisa

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 waiting for OBLC orders too...hopefully soon for both o...

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. Lisa

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 training. All I know about tripler is what you ca...

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 to read every bit of your reading assignments (you'...

Ahhh...that makes sense..thanks.

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 aug.

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 again.

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 say. Thanks for the info...hopefully I'll get thing...

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 buy ACU's (US Calvary I think)...but I couldn't fi...