rustynail

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1. 50 year old New Family Nurse Practitioner

   rustynail replied to Clucas19's topic in Government, Military

   48 years cutoff for the Army. That's with all the waivers. There is definitely a need for Nurse Practitioners but age is also a discriminator. I should know because I commissioned as an RN at the...

2. What does your username mean?

   rustynail replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

   Rusty Nail for RN

3. Army Reserve Nursing

   rustynail replied to dfdsue's topic in Government, Military

   xx2 would stand for RNs with 2 years of experience. xx3 with 3 years,

4. Army Reserve Nursing

   rustynail replied to dfdsue's topic in Government, Military

   The best to explain the supply and demand for RNs in the Reserve component (and National Guard, as well as Regular Army) is the AMEDD Journal: http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/AMEDDJournal/OctDec2011.pdf...

5. First Deployment Advice

   rustynail replied to New1LT's topic in Government, Military

   I stand corrected. This time and age you can probably get a Google Earth view of the whole

6. First Deployment Advice

   rustynail replied to New1LT's topic in Government, Military

   GB is growing quite an empire: Green Beans Coffee. Starbucks

7. First Deployment Advice

   rustynail replied to New1LT's topic in Government, Military

   We fobbits like our Green Beans coffee

8. Is nursing really that bad?

   rustynail replied to Lucidity's topic in Nursing Career

   Here is the second

9. Is nursing really that bad?

   rustynail replied to Lucidity's topic in Nursing Career

   I dare to disagree. Military nursing (Army specifically) is a decent job for men

10. First Deployment Advice

    rustynail replied to New1LT's topic in Government, Military

    # of beds sounds a little on the OPSEC side but who am I to judge? If any of my friends goes to my Facebook page, they would hardly know I am an RN, and an Army RN one at that. You just never know...

11. Dominion, NVMHI, & St. Elizabeths Psychiatric Hospitals

    rustynail replied to mingez's topic in Virginia Nursing

    If I were to go into Psych I would probably choose Dominion. Let me ask you another way: if money were no object, would you rather go to Georgetown, George Mason or PG Community

12. anyone currently enrolled in Georgetown?

    rustynail replied to KyelvertonRN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I wish you guys the best of luck! I have always been impressed by Georgetown's Nursing program. Remember that they also have their Pre-Med option available to Nursing

13. New grad jobs?

    rustynail replied to KATRN78's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    Joined the US Army

14. Can't decide!

    rustynail replied to nurse*sunshine's topic in Government, Military

    Watch Baghdad ER (HBO) and if you are still ready, join the US Army :) Depending on your specialty. Army deployments are now 9

15. US Forest Service

    rustynail replied to UTVOL3's topic in Government, Military

    Weren't they closed in