<p>Oh heck yeah!</p>
<p>Military nurses get respect for what they do. Plus, they have corpmen to help them. In addition, I haven't met a pilot who hasn't chased one. </p>
<p>I'm a civvie and I have worked in military facilities. Give me a military hospital anytime! :cool:</p>
<p>I would think twice before enrolling at one school and then having to complete NROTC classes/responsibilites at a crosstown affiliate. S1 is in NROTC and it takes up a good bit of time in addition to regular classes. It would be much harder if he had to drive to another university to do it. Also as a nursing major there are more labs and clinicals to be done. Scheduling could be tough unless the cross town affiliate was very close by and easily accessible.</p>
<p>How do you know if there is a cross town affiliate? Seattle I know has a cross town affiliate with Univesity of Washington. What about Georgetown or UPenn?</p>
<p>Another question for Navy Nurses out there.... After graduation they are commissioned as Ensigns, what do they do usually?</p>
<p>Check the NROTC website. They list all the collges and affiliations, nurse options, etc. Georgetown has an Army battallion. To do Navy, you have to go to George Washington. Navy and Air Force medical support staff are undermanned right now. Nurses are helping doctors (usually on GMO tours) throughout the world.</p>
<p>NROTC</a> Nursing Option</p>
<p>*Nursing Only Schools *
* Baker University<br>
* Belmont University<br>
* Catholic University of America<br>
* Houston Baptist University<br>
* Husson College<br>
* Indiana University at South Bend<br>
* Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education<br>
* Lewis-Clark State College<br>
* Medical University of South Carolina<br>
* Molloy College<br>
* Northeastern University<br>
* Radford University<br>
* Regis University<br>
* Russell Sage College<br>
* Seattle University<br>
* University of Colorado Health Sciences Center<br>
* Washburn University</p>
<p>LIST OF NROTC HOST UNITS:
<a href="https://www.nrotc.navy.mil/colleges.cfm%5B/url%5D">https://www.nrotc.navy.mil/colleges.cfm</a></p>
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Navy Nursing is very sweet deal. A common phrase among docs is "Your name here, MD, Almost a nurse"
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Sorry to play the spoiler here, but I have never once in my life heard a doctor (especially a military doctor) say this line. They are prone to swear under the breaths as another nurse with a little bit of experience (makes O2 or O3) leaves the surgical/medicine floor to go into the command structure though. To put it another way, I have never heard of a physician leaving to become a nurse, but I have heard of many nurses becoming doctors.</p>
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Another question for Navy Nurses out there.... After graduation they are commissioned as Ensigns, what do they do usually?
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Most newly graduated nurses that I see (I work in a naval hospital) are working on one of the inpatient floors, either medicine or surgery. As they get a little bit of experience (less than a yr sometimes) they can be moved to the ICU or another critical care area. It would be rare for a new graduate to immediately work in one of the clinics. I'm not exactly sure how it works if one wants to do perioperative nursing. One option for military nurses is to pursue further education (Masters, PhD) at USUHS, the military's medical and nursing school. They also have a CRNA (nurse anesthestist) program there.</p>
<p>As mentioned above it is rare to see an O3 (4yrs post graduation) working on the surgical or medicine floor. By that time they have made it to be the ward supervisor or something of the like. I do see higher ranks working as CRNA's and perioperative nurses on a very regular basis though. I can't blame the ones who move on from the inpatient wards though, that is a very thankless job sometimes (even if you have corpsmen to help with some of the "dirty" work)</p>
<p>Georgetown is a cross town affiliate of George Washington University.
UPenn has their own battalion.</p>
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Carlton Jones, MD (former AF LTC, Harvard 85', USUHS 90')
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<p>I don't want to derail this thread because this really has nothing to do with the OP intent, but you are quoting a very disgruntled former Air Force anesthesiologist here. I have a high respect for this gentleman as he is indeed shedding light on certain aspects of military medicine that need to be changed.</p>
<p>This still has no bearing on your prior statement on doctors saying "almost a nurse." That statement makes no sense whatsoever. As I said above no doctor I have ever worked with or talked to has said they want to be a nurse. Upset that in the military system a nurse can over rule their orders, yes, but not that they want to be a nurse.</p>
<p>People who become nurses and those who become doctors in my opinion come from two seperate piles of people. It is rare to find a nurse who wants to be a doctor and I've never seen the reverse. Those who go into nursing are a special breed in my mind, because I know what their job entails and I know I couldn't do it. </p>
<p>I'll leave my responses in this thread to that so we can return to our original programming. Feel free to PM me for a civil discussion on the matter.</p>