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Hi All! I'm a new military spouse, and a fairly new nurse (2 years experience). In a few weeks we are moving to our first duty station, so I'm trying to gather as much information as possible, but everything I'm finding is so confusing. I would rarher work on a base just to remain close. We will be stationed at Fort Carson, CO.. but will be staying 20 minutes north at the USAFA. I've been looking at jobs on USAjobs.gov. There are several nursing positions on there but this is where I am confused. So one of them I found says clinical nurse med/Surg gs11. I wasn't sure what this meant so I googled. Google says this is typically a nurse practioner position. HOWEVER when I read the requirements it says all you need is an RN degree from an accredited nursing program. The starting salary for this position is also 80k+ which makes me even more skeptical because it's more than double my salary now. Then there's other positions that say clinical nurse, and list the same requirements, but salary starts at 32k+ and is a gs5 position. Im so confused! I've tried asking other military spouses but there are very few nurses on the fb pages. If anyone could provide some insight it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!

I am starting the RN-MSN program on June 1st. I have 64 CU's to complete. Is this doable in a year to two years? I know that is considerably shorter than other schools, that's why I am feeling as if it is too good to be true. If anyone has any study advice, that would be much appreciated too! I have joined the facebook group, and have heard that quizlet is good help (which was a life saver for me during nursing school). Thanks in advance!

Don't over think it! If you passed nursing school, you can pass the NCLEX, have some confidence! I was getting around the same scores as you on UWORLD, the more I thought about it and wanted my scores to be higher, the worse my scores got! Try not to focus so much on the scores, but more on the rationales. I know I know, so hard to do!! I actually had my test scheduled three weeks after graduation. After a few days of studying nonstop I was over it, and moved my date to exactly 9 days after I graduated. I think that was the best decision I could have made. I went to a live Hurst review, and reread the book twice, read my saunders review book twice from front to back, & did non stop UWORLD questions until I finished all but about 500. Don't second guess yourself on the test, go with your first instinct and move on! you'll just confuse yourself more if you sit and think about it forever. I passed with 152 questions in an hour and a half, which was amazing for me because in school a 50 question test took me the same amount of time. I just kept reminding myself, either I know it or I don't, and I graduated nursing school, so I obviously do. Talk yourself up, give yourself some credit, you've got this!!!! Goodluck :)

Curious to know if the three P's WGU is now offering transferred to other schools? I am looking at University of Southern Indiana's Post NP program. The program is two years long-with one class per semester. The whole first year consists of: Fall-Advanced Patho, Spring-Advanced Pharm & Summer-Advanced Health Assessment. If I'm thinking correctly.. if the classes at WGU measure up to these course descriptions, and are transferred in as being equal, that will leave the entire program with one year of classes plus 600+ clinical hours. Anyone have any insight?