Roll Call for all Military and VA Nurses and those considering the Service

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As the moderator for this forum ... I am interested to know where everyone is from, their background, branch of service (or VA VISN) and what they like the best about Military or VA Nursing .... this forum generally has some really good traffic, and I would like to pull all of us together and get to know one another a little better. :rolleyes:

Hi Psychnurse,

Is this interview process dificult to get through? You seem to have concerns. I only ask because I am considering this too.

thanks, Linda

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I checked out the website and it has been very helpful.

I'm also going to check with the Bragg POC for off post housing. I figure I'll wait until after I pass my NCLEX and get orders before I go through the mortgage approval process. Hopefully I can make the July OBC class but if not it'll be a huge 7 months from my last clinical until I see my first patient. :(

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Specializes in ICU, ER, Flight Nursing, and Management.

US Air Force Nurse Corps (1998 - Present). ER and ICU experience during peacetime and wartime conficts. I enjoyed AF flight nursing, however, was forced back to the Hospital after 3 years of travelling on the government's tab. I am separating from the AF and returning back to the civilian world due to long deployments and political madness in the USAF.

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Specializes in Telemetry, OR, ICU.
US Air Force Nurse Corps (1998 - Present). ER and ICU experience during peacetime and wartime conficts. I enjoyed AF flight nursing, however, was forced back to the Hospital after 3 years of travelling on the government's tab. I am separating from the AF and returning back to the civilian world due to long deployments and political madness in the USAF.

Thank you for your military service! I just wish the Army deployments were as short as the USAF deployments. ;)

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I have submitted my ANC package to my recruiter and am waiting to hear from the board about whether I get accepted or not. My question is if I change my mind about joining the ANC, when is it too late for me to back out?

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Specializes in Telemetry, OR, ICU.
I have submitted my ANC package to my recruiter and am waiting to hear from the board about whether I get accepted or not. My question is if I change my mind about joining the ANC, when is it too late for me to back out?

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Your Army Health Care Recruiter will call you when they have received your military orders. Then, you make arrangements to go to your Army Health Care Recruiting Office to take the oath of office for your direct commission and sign official documents. Think of the oath of office ceremony as wedding vows to the Army Medical Dept. [AMEDD] for a marriage of at least eight years.

I subscribe to this Military Nursing forum and have followed your post this morning. I highly suggest you try to arrange with your AHC Recruiter for your military orders to include the 66G generic course offered at Tripler in Hawaii.

Fell free to send me a PM if you come up with specific questions about the ANC.

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Hi, I'm new to this. I'm currently enlisted in the Army and spent a year in Afghanistan. This fall I will start the pre-reqs for nursing and I am very excted to be an Army nurse. I joined this forum to gain some advice from military nurses on what is the best route for me. I've never used a forum before, but I would love to talk to some military nurses.

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Specializes in Telemetry, OR, ICU.
Hi, I'm new to this. I'm currently enlisted in the Army and spent a year in Afghanistan. This fall I will start the pre-reqs for nursing and I am very excted to be an Army nurse. I joined this forum to gain some advice from military nurses on what is the best route for me. I've never used a forum before, but I would love to talk to some military nurses.

Welcome Soldier!

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Hi to all, I am very happy to find this forum. I have been a RN for 6 years and was a LPN for 19 yrs prior to that. I have tons of med surg/OR experience and am currently doing ER. Currently am contemplating the Nurse Corp reserves and would like some inside info on this. I am very interested in this as I feel like the BEST nurses I know have a military background. Is there more on the job training or what do you think it is that makes them so much more competent???

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Specializes in long term care, agency, correctional.
91W3HM6, SSG in Iraq right now in the 115th Field Hosp. Doing good things I am an LPN who can teach it. In case you did not know what all the numbers and letters meant.

I am thinking about enlisting, the MOS I have been told I would get will be the same as you. I am a LPN. I was wondering what the job will be like in the military, what differences will there be from civilian nursing. What type of places have you worked at in the military?

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma.

Hello,

Taking the pre-req for nursing.

Take care.

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Specializes in ER, Oncology, MS.

Hello to everyone! I am looking for information on the Army Nurse Corps. Would others who have been down the military path recommend the ANC Reserves for a 43 year old civilian RN. I have wanted to do this for sometime now and am currently at a stage in life that Id like to give it a whirl but would love to hear some pros/cons from others who have been there?

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