carolinapooh BSN, RN

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    Do you identify yourself as a nurse when you or your family are a patient?

    carolinapooh replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Whenever I went to the MD while I was working at Duke, my occupation came up with my medical record as my employee ID was attached to it (a message would pop up on the screen for every Duke employee...
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    housing at 1st duty assignment

    carolinapooh replied to PSULeila's topic in Government, Military

    Knowing me I would have left something of minor importance or personal worth in the
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    Resume suggestions

    carolinapooh replied to Buckeye RN/EMT-P's topic in Government, Military

    I wouldn't put your social on there. The Pentagon is becoming more and more aware of how dangerous the practice is and is currently trying to find a way to extricate our service records from our...
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    Looking for prior service with experiences in becoming an AF RN

    carolinapooh replied to Periop-Doug's topic in Government, Military

    I've got to download a copy of this reg... As far as I know (and again - AS FAR AS I KNOW) it's not disqualifying if you can prove you don't have active disease - you may have to do the whole course...
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    housing at 1st duty assignment

    carolinapooh replied to PSULeila's topic in Government, Military

    OMG OMG OMG - I've heard of this happening but never heard from someone who actually saw it happen (you know, the third hand accounts - "my friend was at so-and-so and said"...I'm sure it was like...
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    housing at 1st duty assignment

    carolinapooh replied to PSULeila's topic in Government, Military

    You call them directly as soon as you get orders. You have to pay for fifteen days out of pocket up front (you'll get this back when you file your travel voucher). The folks at billeting here are very...
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    Eligible??

    carolinapooh replied to Jennifer22's topic in Government, Military

    I think - and again, I'm saying I think - there's something in the DoD reg about having to be off antidepressants for six months prior to being accepted. Check, though. You can find the reg online...
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    Air Force Nurse Corps

    carolinapooh replied to luvbug080688's topic in Government, Military

    RAF Lakenheath was my original assignment when I was enlisted - and then I went to K9 school and got sent to (shudder) Oklahoma... You'll love England! My husband's British so we go there quite a...
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    Navy, Air Force & Army

    carolinapooh replied to Jennifer22's topic in Government, Military

    It may be that you'll wait regardless of the branch - look around on the forum and you'll see varying lengths of time. I'm prior enlisted Air Force and it took me three months after my package was...
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    housing at 1st duty assignment

    carolinapooh replied to PSULeila's topic in Government, Military

    It's actually Temporary Lodging Facility - it's an apartment-like place as opposed to the billeting you remember as an enlisted troop. TLF units are controlled by the base lodging facility (old...
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    Watsons theory of human caring

    carolinapooh replied to qt2168's topic in General Nursing

    In five minutes of web searching I found out who she is, what this theory is (I've never heard of it), and found out she has founded the Center for Human Caring (I got that off of another website that...
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    Disqualified or not?

    carolinapooh replied to tee_byrd's topic in Government, Military

    It's not a complaint - it's actually how things are handled in the military. If I'm your Lt, and you're my Staff Sergeant, and you and I have a communication problem, then you'd be well within your...
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    Disqualified or not?

    carolinapooh replied to tee_byrd's topic in Government, Military

    BS - your recruiter is supposed to hook you up. Here's what you do - say you'd like to have a three way convo with her, you, and her supervisor over some concerns you have. It got to that point with...
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    Will you give out a medication without the order yet?

    carolinapooh replied to rn4ever?'s topic in Patient Medications

    You did the right thing. Kudos to you for knowing it was the right thing to do!!! Well done - I don't EVER pass out a med without an
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    Help with AF Nurse's Week 2010

    carolinapooh replied to Spencer2002's topic in Government, Military

    This is where it gets interesting, because no one is going to donate anything to you until you identify yourself (if for no other reason they have to know how to fill out their tax paperwork) and as...
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    Split between branches

    carolinapooh replied to LiveWithIntention's topic in Government, Military

    I don't smoke, but suddenly I have an urge for a
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    housing at 1st duty assignment

    carolinapooh replied to PSULeila's topic in Government, Military

    If you have dependents and request TLF and tell them you have pets, you'll get pet friendly housing. We did - we have three ferrets (!!!) and got TLF with tile floors. It was great! They tried to...
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    Air Force Nurse Corps

    carolinapooh replied to luvbug080688's topic in Government, Military

    YAY!!! Welcome to the Blue!
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    New to Forum! Hoping to Commission into the AF.

    carolinapooh replied to AnnyRN's topic in Government, Military

    Sometimes you find out before; it depends on your chief RN and the RN manager on the gaining floor. I knew from the day I was accepted I was coming to Lackland to the adult BMT unit
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    New to Forum! Hoping to Commission into the AF.

    carolinapooh replied to AnnyRN's topic in Government, Military

    Don't count on it - five weeks of military running around for some civilians is more than enough to stir up the storm...you'd be amazed what COMMISSIONED OFFICERS and grown adults will come up
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    Split between branches

    carolinapooh replied to LiveWithIntention's topic in Government, Military

    SERIOUSLY. They do look nice (on the guys - I still drool every time I watch JAG and David James Elliot walks out in his full whites - OUCH) but for chicks? I'd be so paranoid! And they have what -...
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    Getting on a Military base

    carolinapooh replied to hopeful_army_NP's topic in Government, Military

    No, it's because the Army's weird like that. :) LOL. They were doing that over at Ft Sam for a while after the Air Force stopped issuing stickers - and then they realized there was NO WAY the guys in...
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    Split between branches

    carolinapooh replied to LiveWithIntention's topic in Government, Military

    Then you're going about it completely the right
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    housing at 1st duty assignment

    carolinapooh replied to PSULeila's topic in Government, Military

    I don't know. I know you can hire a company but they won't necessarily reimburse for storage; you may be paying to store your stuff for a month or more out of your own pocket. The danger here is if...
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    Split between branches

    carolinapooh replied to LiveWithIntention's topic in Government, Military

    Talk to them NOW, regardless of what branch you choose, because the package takes a while to put together. Experience doesn't matter. The main difference would be having to go through a separate...