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  1. if you can serve in the air force and the guard you can pass NCLEX! good luck with your
  2. i live in ga. luckily the recruiter is only about an hour away. are you nervous about going?? i was so excited a while back but now that it's getting more real it's a little scarier that i'll be...
  3. Any AF January COT hopefuls out there?

    hi everyone! i'm having my chief nurse interview next tuesday (that's the plan anyway) and then just waiting to hear back. my recruiter told me it might be march for COT because the class will...
  4. good luck! sounds like you're about where i am in the process. i should have my interview early next week. but my recruiter said january COT will probably be full so i'll have to wait til
  5. Questions about the Air Force

    this is kind of a random question but do you think having dogs be a problem, ie, working too much and fulfilling other duties that you'd never be home to take care of them? i have two dogs that i...
  6. Questions about the Air Force

    what kind of weekly PT? working 3-4 12 hour shifts a week and PT...sounds like you don't have a lot of free time! do you think all the sacrifices are worth it? i've also heard that besides your active...
  7. thanks! that is very helpful. it seems like one minute i'm sooo excited and the next i'm scared to go through with it! so you've had a great experience? is there anything you don't like about it? i'm...
  8. Confused

    i believe you can apply a year before you get out of school and then commission once you graduate. i'm applying to the air force so that is where my info comes from. after you get selected (the whole...
  9. My 1st military physical

    so i'm in the hotel waiting to go to MEPS tomorrow am and i'm freaking out a little! any encouraging words of advice out there?! i am so nervous about the whole military decision now i can't think...
  10. My 1st military physical

    is the AF physical really that humiliating?? i am supposed to go this thursday and am pretty nervous about
  11. AF bases that offer NTP

    i am getting the paperwork started tomorrow (still unsure if i definitely want to join or not but thought i should start the process at least) and would want to go to travis. is first choice usually...
  12. i don't know about those three schools but i took patho at the medical college of georgia and they made us take it the same semester as pharmacology. i know some people had trouble passing but i got...
  13. i just graduated and passed nclex in georgia and know several classmates that are having trouble finding a job. i did my practicum hours (all 225 of them!) in the ER at northeast ga in gainesville and...
  14. Questions about licensure process

    i just graduated in may and the process went like this: before graduation we had all our paperwork filled out. (there's an entire application for taking the NCLEX). got a money order for the $200 fee...
  15. really?? no one has worked at piedmont?? that's hard to believe.
  16. New BSN students at MCG Augusta!!

    i just stumbled across this thread and wanted to put in my two cents! i just graduated on the 8th of this month from mcg but i went to the satellite campus in athens. the curriculum is the same of...
  17. so i was looking into commissioning into the air force but the time line of going to COT and everything wasn't looking like it would work out. so now i'm considering the air force reserves and the...
  18. do air force nurses work similar hours as civilian nurses, ie, three 12 hour shifts a week? or is it more like MTW 7a-7p, Tr off, FSa 7p-7a, S off? do they work day and night shift depending on...
  19. i've gotten all the paperwork from my recruiter and want to fill it out and go through meps and all that so that if i decide to join then all that is taken care of. should starting the process be this...
  20. hello! i am a new grad (graduating friday, actually) and have posted previously about a job offer i've gotten on a critical care floor at a local hospital. the offer requires a 2 year contract that...
  21. well it's not a sign on bonus...it's a residency program so i'd owe money for the classes they put me through, not giving back money that they had given me to work there. that's what complicates...
  22. if you sign a 3 year contract is it true that they can recall you up to 8 years? i've read that yes they can and i've also read that that's only if they've paid for your education. does anyone know...
  23. i guess i should have clarified...i'd be commissioned as an officer and working as a nurse in the air force. so once i got out in three years i could be called back in at any point in the next
  24. hey ciscopatrick! since you're done with training and actually working in an af hospital now, what are your impressions of it? can you share on the good, the bad, and the ugly? i've gotten all the...
  25. thanks! that is so encouraging! i'm completely terrified of making the wrong decision but am definitely researching every option! i had posted another thread about a job offer i have here at home....