i know i am only 16 but i know exactly what i want to do. I want to be a navy nurse and i always have wanted to. now that i am a junior i have to start planning for my college. I dont know what to do or where to go. My parents arent too sure either. If you could please enlighten me, i would be very thankful.
2007-08-08 18:03:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
In order to be a navy Nurse, you will have to get a BSN (Bacholer of Science in Nursing). This is a "4 year" college degree from a real college with a school of nursing. You than apply for a direct comission. As a licensed medical professional, you will get to bypass a lot of the Military nonsence. Training consists of a couple of weeks at a place that resembles a country club. You will have a few classes in military stuff... what rank is, how to salute and so on, but you spend moost of your time hanging out and goofing off. When you get an assignment it will be a lot like working in a large civilian hospital.
When you are in high school do volunteer work in a hospital. If your community has an Explorer post associated with an EMS organization, join it. If your high school has an ROTC program, join it. It will give you a taste of what the military is like. Also try to qualify as an EMT. This will give you a leg up on on medical type stuff. It also looks good on your resume.
Don't be tricked into thinking it will be easy. Being in the military is hard work, but any gal who joins the military is # 1 in my book. Just ask my wife, mother, and sister!
2007-08-08 18:26:19 · answer #1 · answered by joad58 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen lil devil duck, take Latin this year and next. Take biology if you can, do independent study for credits (look into anatomy) if your school will allow you too. Now you can go to college or you can enlist as an HM. A Hospital Corpsman and the Navy will provide initial schooling and follow up schools for additional training. While you are in you can pursue a degree using Tuition Assistance and never have to touch your G.I. BILL. Then when you get out of the Navy you have a bunch of credits towards your degree from NAVY "A" SCHOOL and the classes you picked up from tuition assistance. You will be at the Bachelor Degree level if you do the things I mentioned above. Now , after four years of that you have real world experience, schooling, job opportunities, and the G.I. BILL money to back your way into a Masters Degree. Show this to your parents and talk it over. I am a Parachute Rigger in the Navy using the programs I mentioned above. If you have the drive it can happen for free, well not really, sweat and lack of sleep but that really is a small price to pay.
OH and the Navy has a program where they will pay you to go to school. When you talk to a recruiter play hardball because they need you to enlist to keep their job. Get an enlistment bonus, and remember that they are working for the Navy but their job is to really work for you.
Good Luck!
2007-08-08 18:32:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only really important thing is that you'll need a BSN. They don't hire Associates Degree RN's. Even if you get there and don't like it, it's a good way to go. You'll get an internship that isn't available in civilian nursing, and you'll have the respect of the commission that you may not find in civilian life, where many hospitals look on the nursing staff as a payroll expense they want to keep in tight control.
2007-08-08 19:12:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several way s to go about this. You can take your pre-reqs. at a community college, while still attending high school, and be ready to enter nursing school when you graduate. If you have a BS in nursing, you can take a direct commision and enter as an officer after basic and OCS. Or, you can score high on the asvab and have the navy send you through school. Either way, you will enjoy a career in the Navy
2007-08-08 18:08:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
go to college, preferably one with a Naval ROTC unit and join that, applying for a scholarship. Get the Nurse Option in your ROTC contract.
Otherwise, get your BSN( you MUST have a BSN, no other Nursing degree will cut it) and seek out a medical Programs recruiter(different than enlisted or regular Officer recruiters) and apply to OIS.
2007-08-09 01:22:02 · answer #5 · answered by Mrsjvb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you already know & you are sure. Talk to a naval recruiter. If you are embarrassed to do a face to face. Pick up the phone book and lop them off a call. Google US NAVY & go to their official site, you should be able to track a recruiter there.
Good Luck,
Cpl. USMC
2007-08-08 18:09:33 · answer #6 · answered by PeachJello 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apply for the Naval Academy.
Short of that, get a degree in nursing. Then talk to a recruiter.
2007-08-08 18:08:04 · answer #7 · answered by DOOM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
join the navy?
they'll train you to be a nurse there, if you talk to the right people I'm sure.
or you can just going go to college and become a regular nurse, but you want to be a NAVY nurse I see.
2007-08-08 18:15:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Before you do anything else there are two people you need to sit down with, one is your school guidance councilor, the other is a Navy recruiter. Guidance councilor first, recruiter second.
2007-08-08 23:59:41 · answer #9 · answered by mikosin357 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋