RdKillRN

Navy “flight” nurses are called “Enroute care nurses”. It is u subspecialty attached to an already established ER, Trauma, or Critical Care Nurse and utilized during combat deployments. You attend a specialty school through the Army. You can however be assigned to one a very very few fleet surgical teams where you hop from ship to ship with a corps group medical folks taking care of ships crew. Once you have your BSN, talk with a medical/nurse recruiter and they will set you on the right path to becoming a military nurse. Navy only takes BSN prepared Nurses and all enter as Officers.

1. Flight/trauma nursing with the military you get to serve your country, in civi land you serve your community. Many nuances to each…. If you’d like greater detail feel free to reach out further. 2. I can only speak to Navy Nursing where we were taught to be able to care for and transport a patient by air, land, sea, donkey….by any means available really. And you’ll develop expert trauma nursing skills by working with the Marines, or green side as we call it, and training our Corpsmen. 3. I have a BSN, and with flight,trauma, critical care, er….all have specialty certs you can gain easily while employed. I've not sought advanced degree. It is entirely possible to be a strong leader and expert in your field as an active operational nurse. However, I believe to move up in rank as an officer, an advanced degree is quite necessary and the military has programs to help you achieve that. You get paid to go to school full time basically. Pretty sweet deal if you want to climb the ladder.