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Become A British Army Nurse - Join The QARANC


Details on how to join the British Army as a Qualified Nurse or train as a student nurse with the army and become a member of the QARANC:


Army Nurse

A career in the army as a nurse in the QARANC (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps) or as a health care assistant can be rewarding and can develop your nursing career.

The army gives you opportunities such as:

  • Professional support and development

  • Secondary qualifications such as A&E, Theatre and ITU courses

  • Promotion and pay increments

  • Worldwide travel

  • Sports

  • Military training and development

  • Finance rewards (Golden Hello's) for qualified nurses with certain qualifications

  • Funded study days and courses

  • Funding and support to Master's Degree level

  • Regular paid holiday leave

  • Free dental and health care

  • Non-contributory armed forces pension



Help Needed: Qaranc.co.uk would like to add a page about the QA lanyard but need some help. Can anyone please help with a photo of the lanyard on the uniform and a photo of just the lanyard? It would also be helpful if anyone can give some tips on how to site and fit the lanyard. Please use the e-mail address on the contact page. Thank you!



Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story

Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story by Nicola Tyrer is an account of the QAs during the two World Wars. It includes first hand accounts of the Queen Alexandra nurses who were in the dressing stations, casualty clearing stations and field hospitals of Dunkirk, D Day, the fall of Singapore and many more locations where the QAIMNS served.

Buy Now.

Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story is also available as a talking book read by the actress Barbara Flynn and Sian Thomas. Buy Now.


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Basic Military Training For Army Nurses And Health Care Assistants


QARANC Field Nurse All new QARANC personnel will receive a 12 week basic military training course at the Army Training Regiment at Winchester Barracks. From here nurses will be promoted to Lance Corporal and receive acting Corporal pay whilst serving at a UK or overseas hospital, field unit or primary care centre.

Officers undergo an 8 week Entry Officers Course at Keogh Barracks, Ash Vale near Aldershot and a four week course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. From there they are promoted to Lieutenant or Captain, depending on how much nursing experience they have.

Officers and Ordinary Ranks receive military training which includes:
  • Fitness training

  • Weapons training

  • Field first aid

  • Nuclear biological training

  • Marching and drill

  • Fieldcraft

  • Camouflage techniques

  • Cooking with rations

  • Obstacle assault courses

  • Field exercises



Army Field Ambulance Though the QARANC is classed as a non combatant military role nurses and HCAs are training to handle weapons so that they can disarm the weapons of their patients to ensure the safety within the field hospital.


Soldiers Marching On successful completion of the basic training period families and loved ones are invited to the barracks to watch the passing out parade in which each new soldier will take part.


Student Nurse Training With The Army


The British Army have bursary sponsorship programmes to help you through your student nurse training if you are a civilian and are about to or are training at University. Serving soldiers have the opportunity to re-badge to the QARANC and train as a nurse at a civilian nursing University. Serving Health Care Assistants can progress towards nurse training by working through to National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level Three in Care before applying for the Diploma in Nursing.


Rates Of Pay For Army Nurses And HCAs


For current rates and scales of pay, Golden Hello Payments and Bursaries see www.army.mod.uk/qaranc/salaries.htm


Find out more about joining the QARANC at your local Army Careers Information Office or visit the official Army QARANC website at: http://www.army.mod.uk/qaranc/careers.htm
and fill in the information form. There is also a telephone number and address where you can get further information.



A British Army Nurse In the Korean War

A newly published book about the QARANC is A British Army Nurse In The Korean War by Elizabeth Jilly McNair A British Army Nurse In the Korean War by Elizabeth Jilly McNair. QA Sister McNair saw active service in Korea and Japan and this book is based on her letters home and photographs she took during her 18 months spent nursing at the British Commonwealth General Hospital in Kure, Japan and the British Commonwealth Zone Medical Unit in Seoul, Korea. Buy Now!


If you would like to contribute to this page, suggest changes or inclusions to this website or would like to send me a photograph then please e-mail me.

The photos and pictures on this page have been kindly sent to us for inclusion on this page. If you would like to contribute photographs then please contact us.


Findextrawork

Find Extra Work Since leaving the QA's we have done an assortment of self employed work and jobs, some which only take an hour a week, others have been full time. We have written about these at our other website Findextrawork at www.findextrawork.co.uk where we share the information for free to help others with information and resources about earning more money. Visit Findextrawork for more information.


For the official Army QARANC webpage please go to
www.army.mod.uk/qaranc/index.html
For the QARANC Association website please go to
http://www.army.mod.uk/qaranc/qaranc_assn/index.htm




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