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I have a little EMT experience and was in med school for two years, but no nursing experience. One of the programs I'm looking at requires you to be a CNA before starting the program, so I would have some (very brief) experience if I went that route.

My wife and I are trying to figure out how to finance me going to nursing school. One idea (on top of student loans out the wazoo) is that my wife would work while I would stay home and do an online program while taking care of our kid (1-3 years, depending on when I would start schooling). I know that it would be dependent on a lot of factors... how needy my child is, how well I can balance child card versus serious scholarship... but is it possible for someone to stay at home, do an online BSN program, and take care of a young child?

If you manage to enter as a captain, the most junior fellow captain you will encounter will probably be around 26. That's assuming the person went from high school straight into college and then straight into the officer corps... captains that enlisted first or went to graduate schooling will probably be older.I wouldn't worry about being a couple of years older. I know several servicemembers who chose military medicine as a second career after starting out in other branches of service, and so are just getting their degrees and certifications in their late twenties or early-to-mid-thirties. An Army nurse I was talking to also mentioned that you put up with less BS as a military nurse as opposed to civilian nursing. As an officer, you automatically outrank the majority of soldiers in the Army.