TALKED TO A RECRUITER..is this TRUE???

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i have spoken to my local recruiter who forwarded me to a local medical recruiter. my local recruiter told me several things. among them were: $25k sign on bonus, the navy will pay for college while giving me a monthly stipend for housing/food plus a salary. the loans that i have now (from my masters in occupational therapy) will be deferred until i am out of the navy. the medical recruiter told me this: they do not pay for my nursing education..they give me a monthly allowance of $1000 to put towards school...he has heard nothing about a 25k sign on (he said it's $10k before taxes), he has also heard nothing about the housing allowance etc during school. i have been in contact with several nurses in the nurse corp and they told me everything that my local recruiter (not medical) told me. what is going on here? who should i believe? he is calling me back within 24 hrs to see what he can offer me. what should i expect to be offered and what should i try to negotiate?

thanks for any help you can offer!

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Specializes in L&D, mother/baby, antepartum.

it seems that the information you have received is a mixture of different things. there is a $25k sign-on for bsns (i believe it's on the navy website too). if you do a nurse candidate program in nursing school then the navy will pay for your school you just have to agree to commit a certain amount of time to the navy when you graduate. or if you are already an officer in the navy you can apply to go school to get your msn and the navy will pay for your school and pay your salary. again, this requires an additional commitment and not everyone is accepted to the program. yes, loans can be deferred when you are active duty but that might not be the greatest idea since they will continue to gain interest and you'll have to pay them eventually. the good news is that you can apply for a federal loan repayment program where the navy will pay back some of your student loans.

just to clarify, are you in nursing school now?

i'm not sure why there is such a vast difference in information that you are receiving from the recruiters. i believe that you are going to need to work with a medical recruiter if you are planning on entering as a nurse. you may just need to find another medical recruiter in your area. if you are attending a university i would imagine there is a recruiter that works with your school. you may want to ask.

hope this helps a little. i am only an applicant myself (although to the air force) so i'm familiar with some of the basic info. there are other nurses on this site that are already ad that can give you great information that might be more in-depth.

oh, and don't worry, when the recruiter calls you back to tell you "what he can offer you" he's just giving you information, not offering you a job yet. you'll get to fill out a little paperwork before they can do that!

i have spoken to my local recruiter who forwarded me to a local medical recruiter. my local recruiter told me several things. among them were: $25k sign on bonus, the navy will pay for college while giving me a monthly stipend for housing/food plus a salary. the loans that i have now (from my masters in occupational therapy) will be deferred until i am out of the navy. the medical recruiter told me this: they do not pay for my nursing education..they give me a monthly allowance of $1000 to put towards school...he has heard nothing about a 25k sign on (he said it's $10k before taxes), he has also heard nothing about the housing allowance etc during school. i have been in contact with several nurses in the nurse corp and they told me everything that my local recruiter (not medical) told me. what is going on here? who should i believe? he is calling me back within 24 hrs to see what he can offer me. what should i expect to be offered and what should i try to negotiate?

thanks for any help you can offer!

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i have spoken to my local recruiter who forwarded me to a local medical recruiter. my local recruiter told me several things. among them were: $25k sign on bonus,

for me, in the army, there was a sign on bonus or the nurse candidate program which gave the stipend

the navy will pay for college while giving me a monthly stipend for housing/food plus a salary. the loans that i have now (from my masters in occupational therapy) will be deferred until i am out of the navy.

for me, my loans are only deferred because i am not only still in grace period but because i wil start a program. however if you go to the fafsa site you will see that all loans will be deferred for a few years if they were incurred after 9/11 and you are active duty, (as a hardship i believe and you must fill out the appropriate fafsa forms)

the medical recruiter told me this: they do not pay for my nursing education..they give me a monthly allowance of $1000 to put towards school...he has heard nothing about a 25k sign on (he said it's $10k before taxes), he has also heard nothing about the housing allowance etc during school

again, i do not think it is both but, an either or, yet, i only know of the student candidate programs that the af and the army have

. i have been in contact with several nurses in the nurse corp and they told me everything that my local recruiter (not medical) told me.

big red flag: be weary of what a regular not medical recruiter tells you, a regular recruiter is not a health care recruiter. a regular recruiter is not working with health care officers but, general enlisted. i have heard of nurses coming in as non-nurses because they inadvertantly went to a non-medical recruiter and allowed themselves to misbelieve what they were being told, do not read between the lines, ask for clarity and mostly, talk to a health care recrutier.

what is going on here? who should i believe? he is calling me back within 24 hrs to see what he can offer me. what should i expect to be offered and what should i try to negotiate?

thanks for any help you can offer!

first of all, do not panic, tell him you are looking for a health care officer recruiter and ask how many health care officers he has recruited. next contact a health care recruiter, (not him) besides, you said you have spoken with a medical recruiter already who dismissed what the inital one told you, right?

gen

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thank you all for your help. i did speak to a medical recruiter and what he is telling me coincides with what you are telling me,,..either i go to school and get my bsn and then sign (with a sign on bonus of 25k)...or the navy assists me with school (stipend of $1000 per month). to clarify...i went to college and earned a masters degree in occupational therapy. i want to become a nurse now (several different personal/professional reasons). so, i am finishing up 2 prerequisite classes, then i will apply to an accelerated bsn program. when i apply to the bsn program i am planning on applying to the nurse candidate program as well. i'm still confused about one thing. given that i am accepted...i thought that the navy helps you pay for school while giving you an additional stipend (housing/living). i thought this is why some navy nurses loved it...they didn't have to work part time while in school. it helped them pay their bills? this is a long process phew!

first of all, do not panic, tell him you are looking for a health care officer recruiter and ask how many health care officers he has recruited. next contact a health care recruiter, (not him) besides, you said you have spoken with a medical recruiter already who dismissed what the inital one told you, right?

gen

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Specializes in L& D, High Risk Antepartum.

FY 08 Bonus schedule just came out it is now a 30,000 sign on bonus for 4 years for direct.

ENS Allison

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That is separate from the NCP right? that bonus applies if you are already an RN and interested in signing?

FY 08 Bonus schedule just came out it is now a 30,000 sign on bonus for 4 years for direct.

ENS Allison

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