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Congrats to all the selects who have found out already and the selects that will hopefully find out next week!

Jessica S- I saw the NECP results had come out but I have not taken a look, did you get accepted this year?

I love being an Air Force nurse!! I work in an inpatient ops (multi-service unit) at JBER, Alaska. I work 15 - twelve hour shifts a month and we get every kind of patient you can image from 12 month old babies to death. We have surgical patients, gyn, urology, and the list goes on and on! I feel like I'm getting great experience for a med-surg certification I. The near future and I am so lucky to be working with an amazing team of officers and enlisted technicians!! If you have anymore questions feel free to ask!

Your husband being a MSgt will help you so much! My husband was a MSgt and he could call AFPC directly to speak with his career field assignment personnel to coordinated our assignment. I love being an AF nurse!!! I think it's completely different from nursing school. I feel the main difference is I found my way of practicing and I can take care of my patients the way I feel is the best way to advocate for them. I love working with AF officers as opposed to civilian nurses because the level of professionalism is so different than what I experienced in the hospital I did nursing clinicals in. Of course my opinion is completely subjective and you'll have to make your own judgments about this but you will absolutely love coming to work everyday :-)

Hello, I just graduated last year, and I was in the NECP during school. 1.) You should try to find a school that is near your current base or close to a base with a medical treatment facility so you will only have one PCS. 2.) When you graduate the AF will allow you to choose either Med-Surg or OB. 3.) You will get paid your current rank through out school unless your a SrA. SrA will get SSgt pay during school. I was a TSgt so I got my base pay, BAH, & BAS throughout school. 4.). It is competitive to get into nursing school. My GPA was 3.85. Hope this helps!

The Army is the only service that allows current officers apply for the Physician Assistant Program. To be competitive for NECP you need to keep up your grades so you can get into a nursing school. My school was really tough, luckily I kept my GPA up at 3.85 and I got in. My EPRs were all fives and I got a really great recommendation. I don't know how my Chief nurse interview went because I didn't see the finished document from the Colonel (they send it directly to AFPC) I felt I did pretty good. Hope this helps!

NECP is currently for active duty enlisted personnel in the Air Force. NECP is also a nursing program for a BSN. I think you should do the PA program if you are trying to be a Physician because once you become an officer you can no longer do the PA program or the NECP in the AF. You would need to choose one or the other. I graduated from NECP with my BSN in August and as a new Air Force nurse you can choose OB or Med-Surg. Once you have time on station and upgrade training (1 year) you can apply for different fellowships to become an ER or ICU or OR nurse. Hope this helps!

I will get to Alaska mid April. I am active duty (13 years) and I commissioned through NECP. When I get through COT I will surely answer any questions you may have :-)

NECP graduates are commissioned as O-1E and I get commissioned in 3 days :-) We are new nurses with no experience so we don't get constructive time towards rank like a civilian nurse with many years working as an RN would. Glad I could help!

It's ok - what I did was look at schools in the same state because they generally have the same prerequisites. Not always the case. You're going to have to list your schools by top choices and I think you have to have an educational plan on file at the Ed center to get TA anyway. So pick the one school you really like and start knocking out the classes, if it has to change you can just change your ed plan and do the other classes you need. For me I needed: Chem for Health sciences with lab, microbiology with lab, a&p I & II with labs, sociology, psychology, life span, statistics, English I & II, college algebra. I also did many more classes to finish my civilian AA which were all general Ed as well. Most schools will require these classes I've seen schools wanting literature or anthropology as well. I would start out with the sciences because you will need them no matter what school you decide on. Also English and statistics are very common for nursing school. Wait to take sociology or psych till you for sure know what school you will use to get into NECP with. Just my suggestion :-)

I was in your same situation. When we were in England I decided to just finish my CCAF and do the sophomore level general Ed classes on base. (I.e. english II, statistics, etc). These were really the only classes I could do at the time and I didn't want to take online classes either. You can find great schools that offer a lot of the science prerequisites online but I wouldn't go with AMU or any of those kind of schools. When we got to Tampa I had better choices for schools on and off base so I waited and transferred my credits to one community college to finish the AA. Some schools I have heard of that are NECP friendly are U of South Florida, U of Central Florida, U of Maryland, U of San Antonio Health Sciences center, Saint Louis University, Wright State University. I think U of South Alabama is a good choice too, but it's not really close to a base, do the new NECP guidelines allow for this? I'm actually looking at this college for grad school!! If you have anymore questions just let me know!

Ok-I'm going to try and answer all of your questions if I miss one please just ask again! Or if you think of anything else you have a question about just let me know :-) I just finished the NECP program in August 2012, and passed the NCLEX in September 2012. I am going to COT 7 Jan 2013 and I will be attending NTP at Tampa General. I went to nursing school at the University of South Florida here in Tampa. My husband and I are both active duty with two kids. He is a MSgt and I was. TSgt. We have been stationed at MacDill since 2006 and I was selected for the NECP program in 2010. When I PCA'd to my colleges' ROTC detachment he stayed working at MacDill. Now we both have orders to Elmendorf. My husband and kids are going mid-March and I will get there in April after I graduate NTP. My enlisted AFSC was SATCOM when I was selected, so we seem to have a lot in common :-) 1) First you need to decide on the nursing program you want to apply for. Once you know their prerequisites you can start taking those courses and apply the classes towards an associates degree. I completed my CCAF (about 60 semester hours) while I was going to HIllsborough Community College here in Tampa. I did an AA in liberal arts and I did all my nursing prerequisites as my electives. When I completed the civilian AA I applied to the University of South Florida and the University of Central Florida. I was accepted to both schools but chose USF because it was closer to MacDill AFB. The AA degree will make sure you can start school as a junior and meet the NECP requirements of 24 months to complete nursing school. 2) Once you get selected you are still on active duty and must PT, and stay within regulations foe your PT tests. You don't report to the detachment very often but you will work there on school breaks unless you want to take leave. 3) Yes, it is absolutely possible to be mil to mil! The bases you want to research his AFSC for are Elmendorf, Landstuhl, SAMMC (Lackland), Keesler, Wright-Patt, Langley, Eglin, Travis, Nellis. I say these places because as a new grad nurse these are the only inpatient ops squadron you can be assigned to as your first duty station. If he does not have jobs at these bases you are more than likely to be separated when you graduate. I have heard of exceptions but it's rare! Tips: don't just apply to one school, and I would try to find a school close to one of these bases especially since you may be going to school directly from an overseas location. Also, get as many A's as possible, it will only help you in the end!! B's are good but A's will help guarantee an acceptance letter from a college and if you don't get into a college you will not get selected by the NECP board! Hope this helps!

Congrats!!!!!!! I leave for COT next month and then NTP in Feb, my first "nursing" assignment is Elmendorf as well!! Are you going to be med-surg or are you coming in as a specialty? Again congrats and after next month I'll be glad to answer any COT questions you may have :-)

Kdazzle, I have not heard of this happening but at least they are having you wait until the next board instead of making you a non select. Are you trying to come in Med-Surg fully qualified or as a specialty? Either way I wish you the best of luck when you do eventually get boarded :-) I do know that CN interviews do expire, but I'm sure you'll probably interview with the same person so it won't be too bad :-) Good luck!!!!!!!!!