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joining the navy nursing program
I'm seriously considering the NROTC program when I'm finished high school in 2010 (I'm a junior now). I've already checked the Navy website and understand what comes with the position. I was wondering if anyone has any personal experience with the program that would recommend it? And when should I stop by a navy recruiting office to get information? I'm 16 going on 17 in March.
I'm a also little worried that I might not be fully prepared for nursing (dealing with blood, needles, etc) though I have had personal experience being around them. Is it easy to get accustomed to? Is it possible that I could shadow a nurse or there is a program where high school students are allowed to do that? Thank you :)
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that's awesome :) i don't have any personal experience with the program but i have toured the naval academy campus in annapolis and i can tell you that it is beautiful. also, if you graduate from any kind of miliatary academy you have an excellent change of being hired for basically any job you have a degree in, employers love people from the miliatary because they are disciplined and good workers. as for being accustomed to blood, i think it depends on the person. if you want to be a nurse that badly, i think that you could easily get over your fear of blood, but that is really up to you. in order to get experience you could volunteer doing community service at your local hospital. call them and ask if it is possible for you to do this, at my school a lot of kids volunteer. it looks excellent on your resume and sometimes scholarships are offered. good luck!
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You could go to talk to a Navy recruiter at any time as soon as possible. im thinking about a medical job in the National Guard, and a recruiter came to talk to us at school. she said that for the Guard, you can actually join and become a member as long as you're at least 17 and a junior in high school in good health, and all you have to do then is do a training program that's kinda like a pre-basic training, and you get paid to do it. i honestly have NO idea if the Navy has options like that, but it would definitely be something to look into ASAP, because you could join now and have almost 2 years of your contract finished by the time you graduate.
Also, talk to your local hospital. The hospital where i live offers a summer program for high schoolers that's similar to interning where you shadow someone. i took a medical class at my school where we got to go to the hospital twice a week and shadow someone in pretty much any dept. that we wanted to see for almost two hours. its pretty cool and you'll figure out A LOT about what you do and do not want to do. call around and find out if that's offered. good luck!
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