ERmurse86

I work at San Antonio Military Medical Center in the ED located in San Antonio, TX. We get a 3 room assignment.

Thanks vinstafa. It does put my mind at ease more. My recruiter didn't mention anything about 1945 or 1960, even though I asked. I have a couple of years in the ER and am credentialed as such (acls,pals,tncc, pending cen). I also asked him questions about rank with experience and prior service (it gets trickier in regards to oe pay since I am reserve) but he simply stated I'd come in as an ENS. Even though rank isn't a deal breaker for me, I'd obviously prefer to be able to negotiate a more advantageous position for myself. My recruiter did mention negotiations with the recruiter about a duty station, but didn't put much emphasis on the subject. I appreciate your feedback. Lastly, for the identifier, should I have my recruiter do that process? I'm guessing the answer is yes?

Hi jfratian. Thanks for your response. I understand the military pretty well. I actually work at SAMMC in the ED and my counter parts are AD Army and Air Force. I understand that I will be placed on other roles that are not clinician ER nursing, or even nursing for that matter. I look forward to taking on a leadership role in the future. My question was more towards negotiating my 1st duty station and not being placed on a med-surg floor d/t the Navy possibly not having specific designators for critical care positions. I spoke to an AF nurse recruiter too, and he told me that the AF did not currently have needs for nurses, but that we could start the application process in hopes for positions becoming available in the beginning of FY 2017. AF would have been awesome though. Thanks again.

Hello all. If this has been answered already, please redirect me to the correct thread. I am currently speaking with a Navy recruiter about direct accession into the nurse corp. I am prior enlisted in the Army reserve (9 years) and am now looking into AD. Does anyone have any insight into the possibility of getting Balboa in San Diego, CA. as 1st choice duty station. The recruiter said it would be one of the BIG 3, but given that I have experience, and am not requesting loan repayment incentives, I figured I could negotiate my first duty station. I am looking into signing a 4 year commitment. Also, does the Navy have MOS identifiers for specialties (I work as an ER nurse, and would like to stay in the ER), as the Army has 66H for nurses and 66T or 66M for critical care nurses. The recruiter told me that the Navy wants their nurses to be "well rounded", but I would not be too happy about having to work in med-surg again. Thanks again.

I met an LPN during phase 1 of 68WM6 training (now it's just 68C, since they phased out the medic portion of training for LPN's) in 2008. She just had to do some training (probably less than 2 months) to be awarded her MOS, and it was mostly clinicals. Hope this helps.