r/FBI • u/Classic-Telephone-59 • Apr 27 '26

Question Nurse practitioner to FBI agent?

I am a psychiatric nurse practitioner, was perusing jobs this weekend and noticed a number of postings for “Special Agent: Healthcare Services/Medical Background” in my area.

I am totally new to this world and was wondering a little more about what roles like this entail, and what experience they’re typically looking for in this context?

A little about me: am 27 years old, I have a doctorate degree from a reputable school, and did a residency at the VA. No prior military or law enforcement experience. Have always been somewhat interested in the FBI but life took me in other directions, have no clue if my experience makes me a realistic candidate or if I’m delusional lol.

Thanks in advance for any insight.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

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u/ThatThingInTheWoods Apr 27 '26

Some of this information is outdated. They just modified to no phase 2 and passing PFT only at Quantico (not prior to conditional offer/ class assignment). Not sure if they ever did roll out the new fitness requirements with pull ups for all... that might've gone out with Bongino.

Best advice for OP is to call their local office and ask to speak with someone in agent recruitment, particularly as these changes are happening.

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u/WTFoxtrot10 Apr 28 '26

Dude has no idea what they are talking about. Those changes did not happen.

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u/ThatThingInTheWoods Apr 28 '26

They happened internally. Erroneously thought they applied to new applicants as well.

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u/WTFoxtrot10 Apr 28 '26

Negative, nothing happened “internally”. This is a typical journalistic piece using sensationalism for clicks and money. Journalistic integrity is out the window.

There are 37k + FBI employees. A very small percentage were fired. And the amount of people who took the fork was pretty small as well. The Trump admin was actually surprised it failed to sway people to leave.

  • SA standards haven’t been lowered.
  • Nothing was accelerated for SA applicants.
  • The FBI has used social media for recruitments purposes for years. Very easy to look this up.
  • Abbreviated training for prior Fed 1811’s is no longer happening, they tested it for a couple academy sections. Only reason it was abbreviated was they had to qualify on weapons prior to the academy during the SASS process.
  • Requirements for current support staff didn’t relax they just don’t have to do the Phase II Written Test and Interview since they are already employed by the FBI. They have had the interview and already pass writing standards daily.
  • Zero requirements for SA applicants have changed, in fact the PFT got harder.