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If you are working as a firefighter/paramedic which is 24 hours on, 48 hours off, is there a way to obtain your RN in your off time? Obviously, there is no way you could attend a conventional college because of the 24/48 work schedule.

I shouldnt have used the word "near". I have started the degree plan but I'm not really near completion. I am interested in being a paramedic/firefighter and enjoy emergency medicine. However, nursing is a more solid career path.

I AM in the DFW area. Please explain all of these things to me.

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I know that in some jobs if you work 36 hours they count it as 40. Was wondering if it works that way in nursing? If you work 3, 12 hour shifts, do they count as 36? Also, while on the subject, do you usually work more than 36?

what is blackballed...what is group one...what are the hidden costs of travel nursing...what is "agency" ?

Do you essentially burn your bridges at home? I mean...lets say you start off fresh out of college as an RN and you start making 21.50 at your local hospital. Then after a year you are making like 24.50 at the local hospital. Then you decide you want to do some travel nursing to make loads more money. So after your 13 week assignment....can you come back to your local hospital back home and make the 24.50 you were making?

Just did some searching and found out about the travel nursing option which is much more lucrative. Looking for these types of insights.

Fresh out of rn school...with rn license...the hospitals here in the DFW,TX area pay 21.50 an hour. 23.50 after 6 months. Thats between 40-45 grand a year. Are there better options for new nurses?

Call me crazy but I'd like to do boot camp and all.

So I can't select RN or BSN as a MOS? I have to enlist first? What would I enlist as? Gah....

Can you do this? Can you join the army and have them send you to school to get your rn or bsn? I can get into the nursing program here at my local college but wouldnt it benefit me to do it through the army? Advice please. How does all this work. I want to end up being a CRNA down the road eventually.