midinphx

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  1. Maverick, I feel your frustration and annoyance. Only advice is to get busy and try to focus on something else. It is really horrible keeping your whole life on hold waiting. I know. I get to go...
  2. Any older nurses joining up?

    Hey Buskat good for
  3. I am wondering if I need to renew my professional liability insurance (aka private malpractice type insurance). I have always had it in the civilain world. I don't trust that a private hospital...
  4. Help with AF COT

    Age cut off without waiver and without prior service is 42. Rank determined by years of experience as a nurse. Look at military.com for salary charts. It is current and up to date and will let you...
  5. Air Force Nurse Corps

    got it. Iron and cover. adding it to my list.... my bags are getting heavier!
  6. waiting, Air Force Nurse Corps

    Getting him on base is no problem. His grandpa is retired Army and they go to the commisary regularly. In fact, I'm they are taking me to get my uniforms next week. So I'm really lucky that I don't...
  7. I've been writing down notes from your posts for months!!! I have my lists. I'm wondering how I'm going to carry all this stuff on the plane and to the transport! lol. oh! iron, do I need
  8. waiting, Air Force Nurse Corps

    My son is going to be left here in Phoenix. How do I get his card? Luke AFB is 30 minutes from my house. It would have been so easy if I could have been stationed here! No critical care here...
  9. Air Force Nurse Corps

    do I need to bring an iron. (seriously, this is really bothering me!
  10. Thanks, I'll be looking for your
  11. AF COT

    Hey, Adam... don't be one of those 20 somethings laughing at me as you fly
  12. Countdown to May COT...

    Congrats!! It is getting exciting. I'm out running too. I have never liked running. I can do step aerobics or kickboxing for an hour and love it, but running for 20 minutes just annoys me. It's a...
  13. waiting, Air Force Nurse Corps

    Yeah! Congrats to you. It is getting kindof exciting now that I'm prepping my house and it feels a bit real. I still haven't commissioned. I'm not sure when we get our military ID. It may not be...
  14. go to airforce.com to find a medical recruiter near you. They take you straight out of school with your BSN. There is a Nurse Transition Program (NTP) for new grads so you can learn how to be a...
  15. okay, Carolinapooh.... so do you have it now with
  16. Stepping Over to the Dark Side

    Change is hard. You have to support decisions that management makes that you would have complained about as a staff nurse. Then your friends say how you've changed with the job. Of course you have...
  17. waiting, Air Force Nurse Corps

    Hnella, that is so funny!(though I know you are frustrated). Haven't we all had similar experiences? Sheesh. I'm accepted and waiting to commission. It was supposed to happen last week. I did not...
  18. Confused about AF Nursing

    khaos, I agree that your goals and the AF do not seem to be a good match with what you have said here. Not to be rude or mean, but you seem more interested in what is in it for you than what you can...
  19. Confused about AF Nursing

    You are onto a good start. At this point, you need to get in with a medical recruiter. You have to call and make contact and appt. They are not the guys as the mall. you can go to airforce.com and...
  20. AF COT

    You need to go explore around on this site. There are tons of threads that will answer your questions. Also, to see specific physical requirements for you age you can look up at
  21. Thanks. That is what I thought. So I'm not renewing
  22. pssssst, maverickemt.... I think that you will still get yelled at and have people on your back in the military. Maybe not in the way you experience in the civilian world. The grass isn't always...
  23. waiting, Air Force Nurse Corps

    Wac44, we all know how hard the wait is. Really. We kept hearing about "magic dates" when the results would be in. So many of those came and went for me. I felt like I was the only one left. But...
  24. waiting, Air Force Nurse Corps

    Thanks for the support! Now back to the original purpose of the thread. lol. It took me 4.5 months to hear back of my acceptance. I have COT in May. On here, people were freaking out that there...
  25. waiting, Air Force Nurse Corps

    Congrats Travelcrazy! Nashville, I had a great distraction, but I sure wouldn't recommend it. My daughter got married. Today. I've been up and running since 0600 and now it is passed midnight, and...