JakeT

Although I am not a recruiter, I can tell your from personnal experience that preservice us of marijuana is not disqualfying. There are some limitations involved although. For example I believe that if you used marijuana less than 15 times, the US Air Force is willing to look at a waiver for this youthful indiscretion. I am not sure of the US Navy or US Army standards are, but if you really want to find out, the best advice as mentioned above is to go see a Health Care Recruiter for whatever branch of service you are interested in. Although the military has a need for RN's, they are willing to look at some indiscretions for waivers, but they are still maintaining standards. As far as lying about your past use, I would highly recommend that you just be honest up front, the worst case scenario is that they say sorry, but thanks for looking into serving your country. As oppose to lying and getting caught down the road, worst case scenario discharge less than honorable for fraudulent commission. Depending on the security clearance you need, depends on how far and deep they look into your past. When I was enlisted, they went to my hometown talked with family, friends, neighbors etc, if they do this with you and an old college buddy goes.." Yea, we smoked a few times"... guess what.... "Busted"

I can only tell you of my own personal experience with MEPS. My cholesterol was over 200 and my doctor put me on Lipitor. When I went to MEPS this was not an issue with the Docs at least for me.

here is the AF's website for civilian RN jobs that they have posted. https://ww2.afpc.randolph.af.mil/resweb/special_recruiting.htm Here is the US govt's website for jobs. You can do a search for jobs in the medical field and it will bring up RN positions for military installations. Hope this helps. http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/ Here is the US Army's civilian employment website. http://cpol.army.mil/ Here is the US Navy's civilian employment website. http://www.donhr.navy.mil/

While I am not in the Army Reserves Nurse Corp, I decided to get a commission in the Air Force Reserve as a critical care nurse, I did do research on the Army vs the Air Force and just wanted to let you know that you do not enlist into the Nurse Corps but receive a commission as an officer. You would more than likely come in as a 2nd Lieutenant. You would be required to go to OBC which for health professionals is a 2 week course. http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/obc/ http://www.goarmy.com/amedd/nurse/corps_benefits.jsp Hope this helps you out.

In Albquerque new GN starts off at approx $20 hr. Weekend night diff is $8. Night diff during week in $5 hr. Weekend day diff is $3 hr. Relief charge is $1 hr. Permanent charge is 10% pay raise. Clinical ladder is $1hr for level 1 and $3 hr for level 2 and $6 hr for level 3.

I know that your question has been posted sometime ago but I thought I would suggest "Core Curriculum for Pediatric Critical Care Nursing" which you can purchase from the AACN website. I also know that you can get audio tapes for pediatrics. My Clin Ed department had a copy of the tapes so I was able to sign them out. I took my exam yesterday and I am happy to say that I passed the Pediatric CCRN test on my first attempt. For some reason I thought that ithe questions would have been more detailed then they were.

Hello to all in this forum, I just finished my paperwork for joining the Air Force Reserve as a critical care nurse. My AF Reserve recruiter says that the final part of the process should take between 30 to 60 days to complete. I have to say it has been a unique journey, reviewing the different branches, but I finally can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Stats are ICU nurse, ACLS, PALS, ENPC, TNCC , currently studying for my CCRN which I am hoping to take the test in the next 30 days or so with aspirations to become a CRNA next. Jake

The information I received from a AF Health Occupations Recruiter stated that you must be less than 47 years of age to enter. The AFSC(Air Force Specialty Code) for a NICU Nurse is 46N3F (neonatal intenisve care unit nurse)

I am currently looking at going into the US Air Force Reserve as a critical care nurse. I just finished with my MEPS physical and my reserve recruiter is putting the final paperwork together. It just seems to take a long time to get everything processed and the the i's dotted and the t's crossed. What is nice is that I have just started to apply to CRNA schools and with the Reserves I can go inactive and collected a monthly stipend while in school.

I have been reading the discussons for sometime and wanted to let everyone know how much I have gained reading the experiences and suggestions that everyone has put forward and felt that I should introduce my self to the forum. My name is Jake and I just sent my first application in today. Of course I have to say I was nervous dropping the envelope into the mail today. Thanks for hearing me out.