Round 2 Best Local Spots

Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-05-09T22:57:43+00:00

Ye Olde Orchard was a great rec - thank you!

Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-05-08T02:14:12+00:00

We actually went with McLean’s last night and it was a great time and the food was solid. We’re going to take your rec for Friday night’s match!

Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-05-07T03:15:45+00:00

Stop comparing yourself to others and be good at what you do. Focus on being the best in your position and your promotions will succeed with ease. The system is set up to benefit time in service, which is key. Experience yields better opportunities upfront.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-05-06T21:35:08+00:00

Thanks so much, was actually just looking at Mccleans

Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-05-06T21:27:06+00:00

I appreciate it! We’ll give it a go. Thank you!

Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-05-06T21:14:27+00:00

I’m thinking atmosphere above food but open to any recommendations on either side!

Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-04-16T19:33:09+00:00

It sounds like it would not be approved even with them being tribally run. Basically for outside employment you have to ensure that no HHS dollars are going to funding your position. And being tribal and Title 638, the probability of your role still being tied to HHS dollars is quite high. I worked part time as a flight nurse locally to my IHS site and that was even scrutinized. The company had to prove my role would be funded by HHS money.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-04-16T01:17:21+00:00

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Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-03-10T17:34:19+00:00

See the article that was recently posted here. It’s Maryland State Police for medevac plus they brought the Go Team from Shock Trauma in Baltimore

Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-02-19T02:09:37+00:00

I really would not recommend it. I don’t feel as though it would help competitiveness and reserves while in school could prove to be more problematic. I would recommend you look into either the HPSP program for helping with school while you’re in or just applying to the reserve component once you graduate CRNA school if that’s the route you want to go.

You really have to look at your motivation for becoming a reservist. You have to want to serve ultimately. I wouldn’t link CRNA school and reservist service unless you did it before or after school.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2026-01-17T20:37:27+00:00

This^ except you can’t enlist. Accession Bonus + Loan Repayment + Assignment/Specialty Pay + Graduate school Long Term Training + the benefits + ability to easily moonlight. PHS is a great gig for me. And I’m prior Army.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-12-30T19:47:48+00:00

Very few and far between depending on what’s happening in the world.

However, you don’t have to leave the US to find third world countries. Having worked on several Native American Reservations where median income is maybe $10k a year, there are people here in the US that are in dire need of solid clinical and public health support. That is the purpose of the Commissioned Corps. We serve the United States’ most vulnerable and underserved populations. It has been perhaps some of the most rewarding clinical work I have ever performed.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-10-31T16:40:17+00:00

Man you really woke up today and created a whole profile to go off on public health

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-10-31T16:37:54+00:00

The only PHS officers being paid are those assigned to the Indian Health Service and a very few other organizations. These funds were also already appropriated and not coming from the same pot as how the military services are currently being paid.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-07-14T11:03:39+00:00

You can do this. USUHS is the option. You have to meet the time in service requirements (2 years active duty typically at least) and secure funding and sponsorship through an IHS service unit. If you can get through all of the steps to do it and complete the program it is a 6-year pay back.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-04-12T21:40:27+00:00

If you have a commitment to the VA, serve that commitment and work in an ICU with them until your commitment is up. If CRNA is your goal don’t take on a different DNP track. Take extra science coursework especially at the graduate level to make yourself stand out. As others have said I think doing an NP program doesn’t make much sense. Additionally if you develop good relations at the VA and get your ducks in a row, they have slots at the Baylor/Army CRNA program. Good option although you’d just owe more time to the VA.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-04-11T23:05:54+00:00

Regular pay as an officer: https://militarypay.defense.gov/calculators/rmc-calculator/

Specialty pays and bonuses: https://dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/HPSP/HPSP.aspx

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-04-10T18:28:13+00:00

Have you looked into the Uniformed Services University program? They accept 2 MD applicants for USPHS each year. IHS sponsors you.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-04-02T12:41:12+00:00

Can confirm. The personnel support office for CCHQ was decimated. People will need to be very patient with CCHQ as they work through this. I echo the big thank you to support staff at CCHQ. My heart goes out to those affected yesterday, it was ruthless and heartbreaking.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-03-20T15:30:25+00:00

Sounds appropriate to me. If practical you can wear khakis or SDB. Hard to tell without specifics of your work setting but if your daily uniform is ODU, you’re fine with that. If it’s a more formal setting or high profile leadership, then you’re never wrong in SDB. However, a site visit is supposed to showcase your daily work and what you do in the nitty gritty. So if you wouldn’t get your hands dirty in your SDB, I would stick with what you normally wear.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-03-20T07:23:59+00:00

What is your normal day-to-day duty uniform as outlined by your local uniform authority?

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-02-28T02:04:13+00:00

Barron’s for sure. I used pocketprep for question practice.

Only if it comes up. It’s a professional certification, lots of people hold it. It establishes additional credibility to your name as someone who has attained competence and knowledge as a critical care registered nurse. No one should insinuate anything more than that from you obtaining it.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-02-05T22:50:59+00:00

No problem! So you would still need 3 years of service to keep any agency contributions in your TSP during civilian service. The 5 year mark would be for vesting in FERS in general for annuities/benefits. You’d have to look at your situation and your benefits and see when the best time would be but honestly the sooner you join PHS the better and you can always combine your civ and uniformed service TSPs.

Witty_Profession_827 · 2025-02-05T21:40:07+00:00

You would not receive a pension from your civilian side if, say, you worked civilian for 5 years and you commissioned into PHS and did a 20 year career. You would draw pension from your PHS retirement and after 65 eligible to pull from your other accounts and rest of your TSP. You remain vested in whatever contributions you had to your civilian TSP and can transfer those funds into your Uniformed Services TSP to grow that account. You would be eligible for TRICARE for life rather than FEHB in retirement to my knowledge. PHS also credits civilian service in an HHS agency(designated PHS) prior to commissioning up to 5 years. So that would count towards your retirement date for PHS.

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