Gennaver MSN

Hello, If you want to become a certified nurse midwife then I agree with your counselor, you will need a higher degree than an associate. If you get an associates in nursing first and then transfer to a bridge to bsn or if you get your associates in...

Hello, If she is violating policy, (i.e. talking to patients and telling them that other nurses are giving poor care) can you take it up with COC? Telling patients that other professionals are doing things wrong seems like a major malpractice violati...

first of all, do not panic, tell him you are looking for a health care officer recruiter and ask how many health care officers he has recruited. next contact a health care recruiter, (not him) besides, you said you have spoken with a medical recruite...

Hello, I think you have to define "too involved" in order to know when you've crossed over that line. As an empathetic person there is a risk of overextending yourself emotionally or wrapping your thoughts around the problems of a patient, (or even a...

I hope it works out for you! Gen p.s. maybe you should put everything BUT this on your wish list, in order to keep the record with your recruiter and to really get it?

Hello, Just wondering because of BRAC, isn't WHMC's OB eventually goint to be at BAMC by 2011 or 2012 or so? If so, then that may also mean that your choice is the better one! I'm a new Army nurse and selected Alaska as my number one choice, but, the...

Hello Armygirl, I agree with you. It seems to me that a reserve Army Nurse officer will deploy regardless of their outside education pursuits, (reserve commissions nurse officers who do not have a BS academic degree as long as they do have their RN ...

Hello Gerry, Possible you mean NCO, non-commissioned officer. Ranks that begin with E, (at least in the Army) are for enlisted. The topic is about nursing in the Army and the Army doesn't recognize Associate degree nurses in the Active Duty component...

Hello, I'm 41 now and realized a few years ago that not only do I not plan to ever retire but, that there will be no option as our grandparents and parents knew it, for us, anyway! Thankfully for me I do not care to "retire". Luckily also for me that...

Hello, It is good that you came here to vent and process this. Now that you have, TRY again! My own packet was passed over two times for no reason at all and my recruiters and I were totally baffled. Try again. It was the third time, (with no change...

Hello Athena! Congrats firstly! While I do not know your answer, nor do I know how any rank transfer from Reserves to AD goes, I just cannot fathom them taking your rank away! Good luck on your boards AND your packet. :) Thank you for your service, d...

Hi, I'm an RN who has no intention of being 'lured' out to civilian healthcare, I'm an Army nurse for many reasons and the civilian sector cannot compare to any of them. Yes, Army LVNs are notorious for their excellence, yet, why exclude the ADN's w...

Hello, I worded my ponderings badly. More accurately it is the dichotomy between so readily accepting LVNs yet not ADNs, (LVNs are non-commissioned, why not take ADN as non commissioned as well?). Gen

Hi, What is baggy? Do you mean just "too big"? The only thing I do not like about "too big" is that when you untie the waist to use the washroom your pants fall to the floor if you aren't hanging on to them! Grrrr, Gen p.s. I wear hospital issued s...

Hi, I'd like to end up with a few degrees in multiple disciplines. I am not exactly sure what I plan on doing yet hope that it will always be in conjuction with patient care. :) Why do you ask? Gen

My first advice, (as a fellow entry level MS nurse) is to cease and disist calling it accelerated. That is a total misnomer, misleading and causes confusion. There is nothing accelerated about it, it is merely another route to entry. Really, they do ...

Hello, And yet this is so baffling... I've never seen so very, very many LVNs in my life until I (recently) began working in an Army medical center. Granted, the LVNs are enlisted rather than nurse corps officers but...still why ban ADN's so rigidl...

Hello, Yes, I got both the accession bonus and the health professions loan repayment program benefit in the active duty Army. Gen

Hello Mayladybug, I was in a somewhat similar situation as you. I'd wanted to join since I was just over 19 years old but, things came up...foreward to my 41st birthday (a month prior to finally graduating with the dang R.N.) and a recruiter came to...

Hello Little Greek, Thank you too and good luck! Since our hospital's library is soon moving to Willford Hall, (due to reallignments) it could be likely we could almost bump into each other. I'm a total library person. :) Gen

Hello, Just following with an agreement of LCDR Dan's point. My own worries about the act were unfounded. I went to break my lease, with less than two weeks notice and figured that I'd have to pay the month in full for the next month as 'month's noti...

Happiest Holidays to you Athena55, Someone gave me some very helpful advice for my sit ups and that was to actively use my hip flexors. She told me that the sit ups are NOT all your abs but, your hip flexors can do much to ease the burden on the ab ...

Hello, I'm glad to know that now Army nurses can get this too, Incentive Specialty pay, (ISP) up to 20K a year. It is nice. I do not have it...yet, but, I am only begining my initial service obligation. Gen

Great job back to you! :) Yes, we also have to do it q six months and I can hardly believe that I may as well go ahead and do it again already, (due in February but, I may as well do it before its too late!) We have two minutes per event, starting wi...

Hello LCDR Dan, I did my record Army physical fitness test within days of arrival at officer basic leadership course. However at 41 years of age the test requires less repititions to reach the max of 100 per event. I scored 242 out of 300 so, that ...