Thank you so much to everyone who participated with advice and sharing your experiences. Now that I came across the ROTC new nurse assignment information I figure I will share it here too. This is in...
Hello, It may be possible that it isn't the op that is misugided here. Scopes of practice are different for doctors, for N.P.s, for R.N.s for LPNs and for CNAs. What you are suggesting is...
Hello, I am not sure how the HR was when you were there before but believe you would have 100% much better luck by approaching the manager on the unit you hope to work first rather than HR. I am a...
Hi, Um, DePaul does have a checklist. We got it the very first day in 301, (for those who don't know how a master's entry course goes, the clinical portions for the first year are like a junior year...
Thank you for replying so quickly! My packet is already turned in and my base preferences went as FT WW first, FT Sam Houston second and Walter Reed, D.C., third. After nearly 18 years, (not as a...
Hello again, Is it also that your Army medical center would not take ROTC nurses who are new BSN graduates? My recruiter has said that my application looks, (knock on wood) very good and that he...
Hello ArmyMSN, Very nice to read you. I am anticipating deployment and am ready to go however I do have questions about being a new nurse graduate. Do you know if they would send me first to work in...
Hello, Our first critical care, (cardiac step down) went well. Phew. (I worked only a couple of days as a neuro ICU student nurse extern at a local hospital last December but, the timing was really...
Thanks as always Corvette Guy! Glad you check here and reply back so fast. Again, congratulations on completing your certificate, from which the ceremony is where that picture was taken of the ACU. :)...
Hello, Our situations are not similar but, I am interested to find out about turning in our paperwork to test for NCLEX. In my program we are told that we have to wait until 8 weeks after graduation...
Hi Athena, Ah, I should've known. As a new grad I am figuring I will be medical surgical, so it looks like ACU. I am pretty excited about all this. This week was a big day for potential life changing...
Hello NursePamela, Well, that ~is~ where the Bassett Army Hospital is and even though Fairbanks is pretty popular and has the summer temps of my hometown, Chicago, my preference is highly skewed. :) I...
Hello Nurse Pamela, What I read does mention that there is a clinic an Anchorage, through Bassett Army Hospital in FT Wainwright, (although I am dodgey on the facts because my hopes were for FT...
Hi again, Oh yes, I scoured the website. I see that Bassett Army Hospital has a med/surg ward with only about 20 beds, an ER, a Women's health center. While I have no clue right now were new nurse...
Hi Corvette Guy, Thank you for answering. If you don't mind I need to be told what ACUs are. Hey, I turned in my application packet today and all that is needed now are my referral forms to come in....
Hello, While I am going through the Army application process myself I want to say that he has to begin the process of meeting with a recruiter and being honest to find out. I mean, he does not have a...
Thanks for this post! I'm currently in Chicago and the Fairbanks weather doesn't sound too crazy different than I am used to, (well for the -40 that is only briefly in Feb/Mar with our lake Michigan...
Hello, It must be influenced by the duration of time as licensed RN moreso than degree ADN, BSN or MSN. I am in the application process now and am a year away from completing my generalist MSN/RN...
Goodness do they ever. I am glad that I told him I had concerns because not only did he explain what and why he was proceeding as he was. Two other sources recommended waiting it out, one I kept...
Hello, Military Operations Specialties there are some possibly helpful information in this link and this post: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforceenlistedjobs/a/afjobs.htm...
TraumaRUs, Sounds like you were ooooout there. :) I am not certain how close Basset Hospital is from Fairbanks but, have already found an initial landlord who will let me bring my three cats. So, that...
Hello, As a newly applying student nurse I am not sure but, i do think that his ASVAB exam and his composite scores may play a role in where his MOS area is. Not sure at all since he hurt his back...