I was eligible for both loan repayment and an annual retention bonus for reserves. There are a handful of critical needs nursing specialties (this last year was peri-op RN, public health RN, critical...
I'd suggest finding an AMEDD recruiter. Unfortunately, you might have to search a bit; there are far fewer AMEDD recruiting offices than there are generic recruiting ones. Your best bet for staying in...
I was a 66E in a reserve unit. Our unit (and several others around us at the time) had fewer OR nurses than scrub techs, so there would not have been a chance for the nurses to scrub had we deployed....
I can only speak to the Army Reserve part of this question, but the Army did have a very specific competency list that had to be checked off by a manager at my civilian job as part of the application...
Hi LT, I'm an Army Reserve RN, and I have a co-worker at my civilian job that is interested in the Navy Reserve. We're both OR nurses. . She has roughly 9 months peri-op experience. She's having...