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CONUS orders are 3 years accompanied or unaccompanied. OCONUS are 2 years unaccompanied/3 years accompanied. Operational tours (Field Med with Marines/Ship's Nurse/FST) all 2 years regardless of location and accompanied/unaccompanied. You can expect ...

Try and get certified in whatever area you want to be in before you commission, even if it's not in your package. The recruiter makes it seem easy to just get into the ICU. It's not like that. Often they make you wait and do your time. I know of one ...

Ask for whatever you want; if you don't ask, you don't get. The worst they can say is no

If you're credentialed as a 1945, the Navy is bringing you into be a 1945. The whole point of being a DA is to get civilian trained nurses streamlined to working in speciality areas (ED, ICU, OR). Is there a chance you get placed elsewhere? Yes, but...

You'd commission as O-1E, depending on your enlisted time. 1. Your experience would count towards creditentialing as a 1960K, critical care experience with CCRN, but you wouldn't get additional rank since that time was spend as an ADN prepared RN. I ...

This link says 2014, but the totals are the same for CCRN. You can't double dip, no isp and accession bonus. http://www.med.navy.mil/bumed/Special_Pay/Documents/FY14%20Special%20Pay%20Plans/FY14%20NC%20Special%20Pay%20Implentation%20Guidance%20(14No...

I'm not sure how the military housing works. All the officers I know in SD either own or rent privately

I'm an East Coast cat, so as far as SD I can't help out. Anything else Navy related I can.

Getting there on the 10th is fine. You'll check in at the quarterdeck and get your room assignment. You should be free all day Sunday until 1600ish. What at duty station are you going to again?

3rd week at ODS

So Bethesda has the largest number of ICU beds between the SICU and MICU, I want to say it's over 30.

I meant Camp Lejeune, not Camp Pendleton

If you wait until April, your options might change. Everyone of those places has its own benefit, depending on what you want for your career and your family. If you want to be close to big cities, WRNMMC or Belvoir. If you want your best chance to de...

charlieg, you do not have to have your CCRN to be credentialed as a critical care nurse. Unless something changed within the last 12 months, but it hasn't. You may need to produce paperwork showing you have experience. Talk to your recruiter and if s...

GPA isn't the end all be all for deciding your acceptance into the Nurse Corps. My GPA wasn't great and I got accepted first look, so don't think because you didn't have a 4.0 you won't be accepted. The board looks at your entire package and every pi...

So if you really want to work in the ICU and not get sent to the floor at your first duty station, make sure your recruiter gets you creditentialed as a 1960. The recruiter should know who to contact at BUMED to get the ball rolling. 1960 is the SSC ...

1945 for ER and if you pass your CEN, make sure all that paperwork is in your package and you should be a 1945K. 19xx is the SSC and the letter indicates years of experience or nationally certified.

Since you are prior (even though Army) you probably already know, the needs of the military (in this case, the Navy) comes first; however, with prior experience as a RN comes with perks. If selected, your duty station locations will increase because ...

It's the new FY, they will most likely meet in November.

Being persistent is key to making sure your package makes it to that first board. With the numbers being as small as they are for each speciality, one board is all they need to meet the quotas for the year. I was in your spot last year, so I know wh...

Having your CCRN will definitely make you standout. If you are neck and neck with another applicant, it becomes a "deselection" board, and if you're certified, the decision will side in your favor. As far as rolling over to next FY, make sure your re...

It's going to differ depending on your class officer and chief. You will get a gouge sheet with the creed, anchors aweigh, general orders, code of conduct, mission of the navy, navy ethoes, 15 leaderships traits (JJ DID TIE BUCKLE H), the 11 articles...

Good news! Be happy you aren't coming in the winter. Having to shovel snow for 24 hours is no fun, especially with sustained winds of 50+mph. On the bright side, we did get off class for two days and successfully constructed the USNS McFluffy out of ...

Officially, 12/2, I was told I was selected. A day later I was told I was being selected without the budget approved, and was told by my recruiter I should hear from the detailer within a few weeks. Actually heard from him on 12/4, made my decision a...

I am scheduled to go to the January 11 ODS. A few positions are being taken without a budget approval yet. I think they are taking people in waves.