If you鈥檙e considering an undergraduate nursing degree, enrolling in Army ROTC can enhance your leadership skills and critical-thinking abilities while providing financial support to help make your professional goals a reality.
Upon graduation from college with a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing, you will become part of an elite organization that protects the health of our nation鈥檚 fighting forces. It is a position of great responsibility, high expectations, learning and adventure. You will immediately be given more responsibility, sooner and with greater authority than you would expect in the private sector. You will refine the leadership skills you developed in ROTC as you serve your country.
Army Nurse Corps Opportunities & incentives
The Army Nurse Corps has 6 clinical specialty training courses. These specialty courses are offered as 12-16 week fully funded courses in the following areas: Intensive Care, Emergency, OB/GYN, Psychiatric, Community Health, and Peri-operative Care.
- Dedicated 12-week orientation/ preceptorship at first duty station
- Opportunity to attend specialty training after 12 months of Medical-Surgical experience
- Army provides specialized training for ER, ICU, perioperative, labor & delivery, public health, and psychiatric nurses
- Safe nurse-to-patient ratios (1:5 max on med-surg)
- Quicker progression to leadership roles (Charge nurse, head nurse of a unit, etc)
- Ability to move between clinical and non-clinical areas
- Free training opportunities (ACLS, PALS, ALS, Combat Casualty Care Course, TNCC, etc)
- Tuition Assistance to attend graduate school part-time
- Full-time graduate school options
- Bonuses up to $35,000/ year (vary by specialty)
- Nurse Summer Training Program聽- Nursing cadets may elect to attend the Nurse Summer Training Program (NSTP) clinical elective. This program provides nursing students an opportunity to further develop and practice leadership and clinical skills typically between their junior and senior year of nursing. The three-week program is voluntary, although highly recommended. Nursing cadets will work at various Military hospitals throughout the country and overseas. Students will be assigned an Army Nurse Corps officer as their preceptor/instructor to guide them through the nursing process for three weeks.
How To Join
Joining our program is literally like signing up for a class. When you sign up for ROTC, you will register for a Military Science Class and Lab. You can be issued uniforms and equipment. You will then take part in the training and class work that encompasses the ROTC program and will be able to explore the world of the military to see if it鈥檚 right for you! Joining ROTC does not mean you are enlisting in the Army and does not require attendance at Basic Training.