Military vs civilian nursing curicculum? - page 2

1. Facts.


a. The AMEDD Enlisted Commissioning Program (AECP) provides eligible active duty soldiers the opportunity to complete a baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN), become a registered nurse (RN), and be commissioned in the Army Nurse Corps (active component). Participants continue to receive their current pay and allowances during school while in the program for up to 24 consecutive months of enrollment. This program funds academic costs of up to $3,000 per semester or $2,250 per quarter.



b. Deadline for receipt of applications for FY is July. The selection board will convene on ____________. No exceptions for late applications will be considered.

You may want to check this out, it is the only "military" option I know for RN.

CPT Mike

Thanks for the link,

Since I have more school to do, an age waiver is the thing.

Everything I've seen says that the Guard can only waive up to 35 y/o for a commission. A warrant officer goes up to 46(I'm 44)but you must complete WOCS before 46. I wouldn't be offered a commission until completing the BSN. That's at least 3 years from my credits now if I could get an online ADN.

If there were such thing as an online ADN that would take my first semester for credit, I could get that done. All one has to do for the program is get accepted to an RN-BSN with <24 months to complete with 36 months service left.

I have plenty of service left, my APFT scores are good(220s right now), I have some awards, My chain would write glorius LORs and I have the mental capacity to endure an accelerated program. The fact that the age waiver would be difficult to count on would make it impractical I think.