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So I'm currently sitting here about to start week 3 of ODS in Rhode Island. I just wanted to start a thread for anyone who has questions to go on and start posting them. I'll check back here whenever I can and answer what I can. I can also give an o...

Hi everyone! I'm currently a military RN stationed in Maryland. I'm about to start grad school at UMD this fall and need a Maryland nursing license. I have two questions that I can't get an answer to. Why I apply for licensure via endorsement does my...

When I applied I asked if I had to have a maryland license since I am military. I was told I had to have one by the admissions department. Ill call again tmrw and double check though.

Hello! I'm currently stationed at Walter Reed Bethesda. Been here slightly more than 2 years. Not sure who told you there are no housing options near base because there are a ton! I lived in DC proper my first year and took the train. I currently li...

I'm currently stationed at Bethesda and have been for over a year now. I just want to throw out there the CNTP is 25 weeks....BUT it's not 25 weeks of floating all over the hospital. I was one of the last bunches to do the original 10 week intern per...

I went to nursing school at Georgia State so I'm a little biased.

As a whole ODS wasn't hard to me at all. The worst parts for me were getting up at 4am every day and only eat three meals a day. I'm more of a multiple small meals throughout the day kind of person. My body never adjusted to it. Otherwise it's a lot ...

When people talk about collaterals I guess they could be extra duties like BLS/ACLS instructor. When you get assigned a floor you get a collateral for that unit. Currently, we have people dealing with supply, PFA coordinator, training folder manager,...

I am also an ENS at a major military medical facility. No I don't have kids. If you count moving nearly 1000 miles away from all my family then yes? Otherwise I have a live-in boyfriend. He's gone more than I am of late. I'm usually at the hospital a...

I'm not sure that accounts for the new uniforms everyone gets now starting with my class back in March. You get two sets of khakis, summer whites, dress whites, dress blues, and two pairs of blue digitals. Add the cost of all the alterations that wil...

You will pay out of pocket. While there, you can open a Star account credit card and you'll get a 10% discount on your first purchase...so long as you hold off and let that purchase be your uniforms. Otherwise you can expect to pay about 2000 for uni...

For what it's worth, I graduated from Georgia State's nursing school. Maybe the gen ed profs outside of the SON are a pain (lord knows most of mine were and that's saying something since I transferred into State from Georgia Tech, notorious for annoy...

Ga State start as one 8 hr for basic skills and assessment if I remember correctly. They you move in to two 8 hour clinicals a week during psych and medsurg (if you have those in the regular semester. Summer semseters do 12 hr shifts). Third semester...

shot you an email. it's from a gmail account.

You can PM me if you would like. I did the ACE program at Ga State. Just finished back this past December.

It took a number of weeks for my orders to come through the pipeline after I heard from my detailer where he was sending me.

I'm currently an RN in the Navy right now. I can tell you from what I hear psych nurses are needed...and PNPs. Now specific locations are in the air. What we hear from the pipeline is just what's needed navy wide. There's a place we can look (not sur...

Bethesda and Walter Reed are combining. Fort Belvoir is it's own Army hospital, though they have been asking for volunteers at Bethesda. There are some Air Force nurses currently working in Bethesda. I have no clue about AF nurses being able to go ...

Granted I'm not a male and the couple single males who came to my station with me aren't on this site but we don't have an O-club as far as I've seen. The big hospital bases are pretty much just that..big hospitals surrounded by fencing. There's a NE...

I just finished the officer training....Officer Development School...5 weeks ago. They teach you some of what you need to know..how to wear the uniform, rankings, how an officer should act and lead, etc. But after having been at my station for 5 wee...

I didn't have to have it. I knew I took it like every other highschooler back in the day but my recruiter said it wasn't relavent.

We received a username/password to the internet in our building. It's very restricted though. No social networks or personal email. They are all blocked. There is an internet cafe where you can get on any website...except craig'slist...but you don't ...

Been reading my Kindle every night for a few minutes while lying in bed to unwind. They never said we couldn't have that. Just cell phones were labeled "contraband". Just keep it stowed in the bottom drawer in your locker. That way no one can pull th...

You get divided up into 3 groups based on your in-pfa run time. Since we only have our chief and one CO PT'ing in the am with us the medium group gets split between the fast and slow groups. I have no idea what pace we are holding in the fast group ...

I didn't do anything special. Former swimmer, kickboxed at an MMA gym for the last year. Worked on my push-ups and abs. Coming with a strong core will help you out. Also just running. We have been running 1.5 miles three times a week these first two ...