Inquiring about Female Nursing in the military, where to begin? Advice needed.

[uponastar]

greetings all,

first let me say thank you for anyone who bothers to read my post. to summarize as best as i can, i am a person who has been lost and only recently figured myself out on what i want to do (obviously later than most others) we all have to start somewhere though right?

i am a 27 year old female (single, never married, with no children) interested in getting into the nursing/medical side of the military. which branch? i really have no idea. no, i do not have any college credits, experience, or anything under my belt yet. so here are the questions that i have in regards to what i'm wondering about.

is a college degree or certain amount of credits earned/geared towards the nursing field required before you even think about speaking with a recruitment officer of any of the branches?

which branch is the best not only for a female, but a chance at a good job not sitting at a desk, cooking (terrible at it anyway), but a job with job security where i am able to be involved with assisting saving soldiers lives or basic nursing duties - doesn't matter much to me whether its live combat services or on the base serving. i've had some wonderful care in my life, and i want to be able to give something back. traveling and deployment doesn't scare me as long as i'm taken care of in the sense of a decent roof over my head, and able to have that thing i mentioned before job security.

where do i even get started?

some advice from experienced or anyone who could bother helping me out would be greatly appreciated.

looking forward to hearing back from some of you soon out there. :redbeathe

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

If you want to be a nurse in any branch of the military, you need to be an RN with a BSN (Bachelor's degree). Nurses are officers. If you come into the military as an RN with a BSN, it's not likely you'd ever have to cook anything besides your own food.

I would advise you to get yourself into a BSN program and go from there ... that needs to come first. If you can't get into a BSN program, an ADN (Associate's degree) program can get you to RN status, and an RN-to-BSN program can complete the deal (that's what I did).

[nurse2033, MSN, RN]

Stop making such a big deal about being female. That will limit you from some combat jobs, but there are many other opportunities. As Lunah said, you need a BSN. You can be an Air Force flight tech on an EMT cert, but that leaves you as enlisted. I think this is actually a great job but nursing is much better. Also I doubt you will be guaranteed that job when you enlist. I'm an officer so I'm not sure how that works exactly. What will help you will be experience, training, and degrees, so get going on any of that. Keep your record clean of DUIs, or any arrests. I would talk to recruiters to gather as much info as you can. You are under no obligation by just talking to them. They can give you much better ideas. There are also specific health care recruiters if you can find one. Good luck.