jfratian

jfratian DNP, RN, CRNA

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Major, U.S. Air Force Reserve - Staff Nurse Anesthetist

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  1. Air Force Nursing Duty Stations

    jfratian replied to aferg002's topic in Government, Military

    Everybody deploys eventually. Active duty AF nurses generally do a 6 months on 12 months off cycle. You can express your interest, but they really do just randomly assign people with the needed...

  2. Air Force Nursing Duty Stations

    jfratian replied to aferg002's topic in Government, Military

    SOST is special operations surgical team. It's something you would do on your second assignment. You have to be an O-3, pass a slightly harder PT test with 90%+, and you need to apply for a try-out...

  3. Air Force Nursing Duty Stations

    jfratian replied to aferg002's topic in Government, Military

    Do San Antonio if acuity is your goal. Otherwise, pick an area of the country you like. For GST and CCATT, do a good job and express your interest to your supervisors. That's really all you...

  4. Air Force Nursing Duty Stations

    jfratian replied to aferg002's topic in Government, Military

    CCATT and GST are deployment UTCs (teams you're on when you deploy). With a few exceptions, that's a part-time gig you do in addition to your patient care and other military

  5. Air Force Nursing Duty Stations

    jfratian replied to aferg002's topic in Government, Military

    Nellis is currently a small community hospital with about 50 beds and the ER there is basically an urgent care. There is a plan to expand it and give it actual trauma capabilities, but I suspect that...

  6. Air Force Nursing Duty Stations

    jfratian replied to aferg002's topic in Government, Military

    San Antonio Military Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio (which is I think what you mean) is an actual ACS level 1 trauma center that takes civilian patients. That's a good choice for

  7. Air Force Nursing Duty Stations

    jfratian replied to aferg002's topic in Government, Military

    Many, if not most, military hospitals these days have training agreements with civilian hospitals nearby; these agreements vary in terms of time/scope...but generally allow active duty to work/train...

  8. QM/PI/Risk Management in Military Nursing?

    jfratian replied to furryhat's topic in Government, Military

    Prepare to take a step back with your management transition if you join the military. Generally speaking, you cannot start immediately as a military nurse in a non bedside role. The reason is...

  9. Military nurses treatment of civilian nurses

    jfratian replied to sandman88's topic in Government, Military

    Yeah, you're largely treated much better. I know every unit I've worked on generally gave civilians their first choice of vacation and schedule. They were afraid that they would just call out if...

  10. Becoming an Air Force Nurse in DETAIL

    jfratian replied to thedancingnurse's topic in Government, Military

    What makes you interested in joining the military? That reason is important, since it could help tailor information people here could give you. For example, you could take a civilian travel nursing...

  11. Does the Navy Recruit mental health nurses

    jfratian replied to RedInPurple's topic in Government, Military

    Generally speaking in the military health system, there is a need but it's small, niche market. Mental health nurses are only used in inpatient mental health units. There are very few of those in...

  12. VCU CRNA DNAP 2021

    jfratian replied to Asherah's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    January 11-13. We have a facebook group VCU Nurse Anesthesia DNAP Class of

  13. Calling all present and former military nurses

    jfratian replied to caughtupinthismoment's topic in Government, Military

    You are required to give 6 months notice to separate active duty even if you have fulfilled your active duty service commitment. Even if you do your time, the 6 month notice requirement remains in...

  14. AD Air Force Nurse Question

    jfratian replied to Kerkyon's topic in Government, Military

    Advanced academic degrees from your SURF are not viewable to the board for major. That's why you're not allowed to discussed masters in OPR bullets any more. The only way they would know is if you...

  15. Military Nursing

    jfratian replied to Sunshine92's topic in Government, Military

    Air force nursing is somewhat similar to civilian, but there are some key differences. Low patient acuity and a high volume of non patient care activities are a common theme. I've generally heard...

  16. CAC Reader and iPad?

    jfratian replied to CC Freakazoid's topic in Government, Military

    How else would you do it? You need to download the certificates on that website so your CAC will

  17. VCU CRNA DNAP 2021

    jfratian replied to Asherah's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    They letters were mailed out on May 27 as long as you didn't have any hold-ups such as in-state residency

  18. Is the Air Force in need of Clinical Nurses?

    jfratian replied to Deshotel's topic in Government, Military

    Board certification in your specialty always helps (CMSRN from AMSN or RN-BC from ANCC). If you are interested in switching specialties,1 year of ICU or ER would definitely help your chances. Also,...

  19. Looking For Air Force Nursing Information

    jfratian replied to bekah2232's topic in Government, Military

    Med surg is pretty similar to the civilian side, but again lower acuity and less complex surgeries compared with a university medical center. Its 5 or 6 to one ratio depending on base. You have a...

  20. Looking For Air Force Nursing Information

    jfratian replied to bekah2232's topic in Government, Military

    If you have a year of full time RN experience in the ER, you will be working in an Air Force ER. However, it's worth noting that a military ER stateside is typically closer to an urgent care. Only...

  21. Airforce October 2020

    jfratian replied to 1425oes's topic in Government, Military

    Would just recommend you talk to a few Air Force nurses first to make sure you understand what you're getting into. People who join the military for the bang-bang shoot-em-up trauma are generally...

  22. Army Nurse

    jfratian replied to kingjames06's topic in Government, Military

    Technically yes, but it's a total pain in the ***. It's weeks of emails and routing paperwork. Plus, you usually have to turn in regular logs tracking your work hours. As long as you show up to...

  23. Looking For Air Force Nursing Information

    jfratian replied to bekah2232's topic in Government, Military

    Yep. Flight nursing in the Air Force really has nothing to do with patient care. It's way different from civilian flight nursing. The focus is on plane safety, mission planning, personnel...

  24. VCU CRNA DNAP 2021

    jfratian replied to Asherah's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Richmond bound! CONGRATS to everyone who was

  25. Looking For Air Force Nursing Information

    jfratian replied to bekah2232's topic in Government, Military

    Ummm, what? Are you an RN, NP, CRNA? How much experience? What kind of nurse do you want to be in the AF? It's not possible to give you accurate info without more info about your