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Thank you! That helps a lot. I am in the DC area so I am guessing that there is probably a medical unit not too far from me, but it sounds like I would need to have a full-time job in order to be a Reserve RN also - which just wouldn't work for me right now. I appreciate your taking the time to answer my questions.

Hi all! I would be so grateful if anyone on here could share their experience as a Reserve RN. I have been going around in circles on the internet. I am 38 and have taken almost 5 years off from nursing now because I was having kids, etc. I am looking to start working again and keep thinking that military nursing feels like something I'd really like to do if possible. I don't have any prior military experience and my nursing skills were good not that long ago but definitely rusty at this point. When you are a Reserve nurse, is the expectation that you also have a full-time nursing job so that you can just hit the ground running? Or will they help give you the experience to keep your skills up? (Or freshen them up in my case.) When they refer to one weekend a month - is that from Friday afternoon and sleep somewhere else until Monday morning? Or does that mean that you go somewhere Saturday and Sunday during the day and sleep at your own place at night? Is it always the same weekend? And it sounds like there are 5 weeks of training in the beginning and then 2 weeks each year? And I would really love it if anyone could speak to their overall feelings about being a Reserve RN. Do you like it? How do you juggle it with your kids and other commitments? Was it a difficult role to transition into? Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and offer any feedback/advice that you might have!