Wow, I've been gone a long time...

[Lunah]

Haven't been around in forever. A lot of stuff has changed for me! I finished my BSN and joined the Army ... active duty in the Army Nurse Corps as an ER nurse. Currently enjoying the warmer temps in the coastal Georgia area ... kind of a change from the mountains of northwestern Virginia! Crazy. I miss my fire station, I miss my medic unit! I haven't been on the gutbucket since June. Crazy. I need to get back out there. My local medic peeps have assured me I am welcome on their wagon! I've discovered there are a lot of "collateral duties" assigned to Nurse Corps officers that are eating up my "free" time ... hahahahaha. But it's all good. Besides, I look good in green...

 

[bigbaldguy]

Haven't been around in forever. A lot of stuff has changed for me! I finished my BSN and joined the Army ... active duty in the Army Nurse Corps as an ER nurse. Currently enjoying the warmer temps in the coastal Georgia area ... kind of a change from the mountains of northwestern Virginia! Crazy. I miss my fire station, I miss my medic unit! I haven't been on the gutbucket since June. Crazy. I need to get back out there. My local medic peeps have assured me I am welcome on their wagon! I've discovered there are a lot of "collateral duties" assigned to Nurse Corps officers that are eating up my "free" time ... hahahahaha. But it's all good. Besides, I look good in green...

Welcome back

 

[mycrofft]

Paradox

Being the new butter bars will make you the one to do a lot of extra duties, but going out in an ambulance will not usually be one of them, if I read things aright. You're in the Officer Corps now, and ambulance is enlisted stuff.
See if you can get into Deployment or field exercise support, maybe write a report about how you can make that more efficient and effective. Officers generally don't like that duty, so you might find yourself with a couple techs supporting a bunch of troops running around pretending to get shot at, with their usual complement of injuries, illnesses, and goofiness.

 

[Lunah]

Yeah, I have to write a justification as to why they should allow me to go ride on the ambulance. LOL. I'll get around too it. Currently planning on going to the Joint Enroute Care Course (JECC) sometime in the spring, hopefully with a deployment to follow. I'm actually a 1LT, not a butterbar ... came in with constructive credit after 3 years of RN time as well as my CEN/CPEN. Good stuff!

 

[mycrofft]

And no basic training, just the Army equiv of MIMSO?

Lucky you, although joining in wartime makes for such stretches. Despite two years as a RN and twelve as an enlisted NCO, I went in as an O-1 and was being supervised during DESERT STORM by new grads. One didn't think enlisted folks were supposed to have cars, another arrived from school and instantly wanted "her" two weeks' pass home...

 

[Lunah]

Lucky you, although joining in wartime makes for such stretches. Despite two years as a RN and twelve as an enlisted NCO, I went in as an O-1 and was being supervised during DESERT STORM by new grads. One didn't think enlisted folks were supposed to have cars, another arrived from school and instantly wanted "her" two weeks' pass home...

Oh geez, they sound ... special. Hahaha.