US Public Health Service (USPHS)

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Hey everyone, I was hoping some of you all had information about USPHS.  I am a current RN with my BSN and working on my MSN.  I got an email from my school about USPHS and that was the first time I heard about them and started looking into them.  I have scoured their site pretty throughly and have already sent an email off to get in contact with a recruiter, but it said it could take up to 30 days for them to reply.  So, I am curious about anyone who has worked in this service as a nurse and their opinion about them and just some generalities of how it all works.  I also have some basic questions I can't seem to find.  

1. Where do/can you live?  Are you required to relocate?  Or, can I continue living where I am and am sent on "deployments" for work with them? (I am a single father with 50% custody of my children which would make relocation near impossible at this time, maybe in 10 or so years I could)

2. I saw on their site there is a reserve corps as well.  How does this work and differ from the normal?

3. On another thread I saw that deployments only last for a maximum of 2 weeks, is this true?  

4.  In the times you are not deployed do you work regular jobs of your choosing? Or, do you continue to do "work from home" kind of stuff for USPHS?

5. **If 4 is a yes** If you are deployed does it work like the military reserves in that your "day job" has to honor the deployment and can't fire you or cut your position?

6. Is the salary comparable to working regular RN or NP jobs?

7. Are there physical requirements to join like there is in the military?  If so, how strict are the requirements?

8. Do they take NPs with more specialized degrees?  I am working on my Primary Pediatric NP and not sure if that would be useful to them or not.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out!!

 

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Specializes in NICU/Mother-Baby/Peds/Mgmt.

I just looked at the site and it looks like the Ready Reserves is what you need.  However, be aware that they might call you for duty and it might be inconvenient and you'll be stuck, just like military reserves.  Yes, there are physical standards, at least health wise, it's on the site. I don't know if there's physical training or standards.  Pay should be decent but whether you think it is depends on what you make now.  Have you looked to see if there's a FB page? Search this page for posts, I just saw one from 2009.

 

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Specializes in NICU/Mother-Baby/Peds/Mgmt.

I just looked at the site and it looks like the Ready Reserves is what you need.  However, be aware that they might call you for duty and it might be inconvenient and you'll be stuck, just like military reserves.  Yes, there are physical standards, at least health wise, it's on the site. I don't know if there's physical training or standards.  Pay should be decent but whether you think it is depends on what you make now.  Have you looked to see if there's a FB page? 

 

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Search this site also, I just saw a post from 2009.

 

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Hello- they will be having a few nurses answer questions via a facebook Live Chat this evening from 7-8pm EST if anyone is interested. I have been with USPHS Commissioned Corps for 7 years now. The page is US Public Health Service nurses: https://m.facebook.com/PHSNursing

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