youreupsidedown

That does help a lot, thank you!

Hi everyone! I'm currently in my last semester of nursing school and the Nurse Candidate Program, and will be headed to Navy Hospital Camp Pendleton after commissioning & ODS this summer. I'll be moving with my wife and two kids. I realize that generalizations are hard in the military, but does anyone have an educated guess of how long we can expect to stay at Camp Pendleton? Following that, is it a "guaranteed" sea rotation, or are sea billets still application/volunteer basis mostly (this is according to another post I found from 2006)? I get the sense from others that sea rotations and combat zone deployments are usually taken by ICU and ER nurses. Is that still true? I have always leaned towards pediatrics and possibly PICU, and hope to be selected for DUINS soon in my career to obtain my DNP. We'll see if needs of the Navy allow for that direction, but that is the specialty I would like to pursue. I've searched on here and other forums, but most info I find is 10+ years old, and given how things seem to change constantly in the military, I figured it might be nice to get a current take on things. Apologies if I've screwed up any terminology; I'm learning as I go, and can't wait to officially start in July!