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I had a pt's daughter come to the ED telling me she had given her father his third nitro and he was still having chest pain. I asked her where her father was and she said in the lobby. I had no patients pending so asked for his name. She gave it. I w...

I am planning to leave my current position soon and wondering what job opportunities there are in Austin. I have 2.5 years of experience in the ED. Because I am at a rural ED I have helped deliver babies, assist with rescuscitation from 2 hours old ...

I have 11 months remaining at my current assignment and will be looking to move onto my next. Since we have to set up the interviews, fill out our own paperwork and coordinate our moves....I am starting now. Does anyone know of places hiring or that...

I actually enjoyed being a CNA while in nursing school. The most awesome thing in the world was to be praised by nurses and really feel like your work helped the patient and the staff. I have not had as much praise as a RN but the encouragement I r...

Do all of the recruiting companies jump right on you when you fill out the application? I am reading the boards and seeing that everyone is talking about how competitive it is right now. Valley Healthcare Systems seems to have a lot of job openings a...

My advice to you as a new grad coming into IHS is to come in with an open mind and flexibility. I can't speak for all of the facilities but it is not the same as the private sector. If you are lucky, you will get an awesome preceptor if not...You wi...

Thank you for the info! I am hoping there are jobs available! Starting to apply for travel and contract agencies at the moment.

I work at a rural IHS facility. I love the Commission Corps but I am prior civilian with no military experience. Being rural means: going to the mall is 3 hours away, you have one grocery store that has limited supplies which means you go 3 hours aw...

I was put on a limited tour of duty when commissioned related to taking Zoloft a long time ago (1999). My time is coming up for the tour to be over and I want to stay in..however, since being commissioned I developed Celiac Disease. I was in the Corp...

Has anyone went to school at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD? I am concerned by how expensive it is to live out there but I know that I want to stay in the Commission Corps and it is a great deal. However, if the school is not somet...

Thank you wtbcrna! I don't think the USUHS website is real user friendly. Are you in CRNA school there or went there? I work in a rural ED and sedate people under the doctors supervision for intubation, conscious sedation for procedures, etc.. For wh...

I would just like to say you are an excellent writer! Also, I feel that as nurses we are so blessed (even though it doesn't seem like it) to be there to share the most intimate parts of peoples lives and help them! I work in the ED and we see misca...

We are a uniformed service not military. We always say, "We are the Surgeon General's Corps". You should check us out just so when you see people in the area with a little different uniform you know who they are. :) www.usphs.gov A large amount of...

I work in a very rural area. We rely heavily on unlicensced personel who like to do more than their scope of practice allows. I was talking to a physician the other day who has a special clinic that he runs outside of the facility but with our funds....

I am in the Commission Corps of the USPHS. I don't know that I could get in the Army! I am RN,BSN. Alot of people I work with have encouraged me to become a MD but I love nursing alot. I was thinking NP but some of the ones I work with depend on the ...

My only concern now is that if I go there then I will be lowered back to O-1 and I am going to make O-3 in January. I have four years in now and know that the time in school works toward retirement. Just shopping around for schools and my next assig...

Bureau of Prisons and Immigration are both considered hazardous duty. For some reason I can not find the 2009 benchmark document on our professional advisory website but here is the 2008: http://dcp.psc.gov/promotion_pages_08/PY08_Nur_Benchmarks.pd...

Where are you in AZ? I'm here doing a payback. Looking for suggestions for my next assignment.

I was a SRCOSTEP as well. I chose the USPHS because I wanted to do humanitarian work in the US. It is also very diverse in the divisions you can work in such as Indian Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, National Institute of Health..etc. ...

I was going to email the information but was unable to send emails. Not sure why. Anyway, I went to a university that recruited heavily for environmental health officers for the USPHS, however, I was going to school to be a nurse. In my last year, I ...

www.usphs.gov is where you can get some information. I will send you an email with loads of personal experience in the next day or two! Thanks.

Thanks for the encouragement! I don't mind the idea of medical assistants if they go to school and know "the WHY" of what they are doing. This person is working as a nursing assistant not a medical assistant. So, she is working under our licensces no...

You do not need to be Native to work for the IHS. Scholarships are available for the most needed places. We just referred one of our contract nurses to Ft. Defiance, AZ hospital for loan repayment. If you have always lived in places that have Wal-Mar...

Kayenta Service Unit We always need Outpatient Department Nurses and Emergency Department Nurses. We do not have a hospital and work with bare bones technology but it is an excellent challenge. You can find us on the IHS web page under Navajo Natio...

As a nursing student I saw this type of breast ca. Except the lady had an e.coli infection in it. I check my breast every month and when I recently had a lump INSISTED that my gyn refer me for at least an ultrasound even though he thought it was no b...