Hiyas all! I was just poking my head in to introduce myself. I am a 23 year old Navy Corpsman, been a Navy Corpsman for a little over 2 years now. I am the Patient Contact Rep and Supervisior for the Physical Exams Department at my Naval Clinic. I started out by joining the Fire Dept at 16 and shortly after turned 18 where I enrolled in the Maine State Fire Academy for Firefighting 1 and 2, also lots of other certs after that. I joined the Ambulance service after those classes and went to EMT-B school. Joined the Navy at 21 and here I am today. I am debating where to go to school for Nursing. My girlfriend is a 2nd year Nursing student in Pennsylvania and my younger sister is a 3rd year Nursing student in Maine. I would love to make a career in the military and go to Med-School, unfortunetly I have hit a few places that has turned me away from making a Naval Career out of it. I have been looking into Excelsior and their AS and AAS distant learning degrees. Could anybody give me some intel on that particular school and if they work with HM's like myself. Also I am not sure what the differance between a Bacheloers and an Associates is. I know one is a 2 year and one is a 4 year, but work wise, dunno. Thinking about doing the AS(n) part-time and getting my RN before I get out of the Navy, then work full time, and go for my BS(n) part-time. Anybody have any suggestions on school or differant degree programs, and also differant Nursing categories such as: trauma nursing, flight nursing, cardiac nursing, and forensic nursing, etc... For programs like that is there extra classes you should take while in school or is that something you can get a cert. in after you get your RN. Anyways any help would be greatly appreciated!!
