Would it be easy?!?

[JezreelMe]

Hi, is there anyone who could help me clear my doubts.i am a registered in the Philippines, already applied to CA BON for NCLEX but they asked me to go to school and complete 2 subjects, MEdsurg and OB, i already had 4 yrs experience in PHil and 2 yrs in Saudi as an ICU nurse,now,I decided to enter navy and got a rate of Hospital Corpsman, can I used the navy thing to Pursue my license?i read a lot of forum telling me it will not work.i want to use the navy tuition assistance and experience to get my license.would it be possible??will I have a difficult time in pursuing my license??tnx

[jfratian, DNP, RN, CRNA]

The military should not even cross your mind. You need to take those classes and pay for them out of your own pocket. Do whatever is required to get your U.S. RN license. Then you can begin to look at the military. By the way, you need a nursing degree from a U.S. nursing school and need to be a U.S. citizen to be a nurse in any branch of the U.S. military. That may require getting an MSN online.

The military is an incredibly long and difficult route for something as trivial as tuition assistance. As a corpsman, you'll be making E-4 pay at best and could doing remedial nursing assistant work depending on your work location. Don't do that to yourself.