This school located in Mobile, Alabama, offers nurses the standard benefits of all ROTC programs. Nurses participate fully in the ROTC program while pursuing their educational courses as nurses. Nurses can compete for ROTC scholarships like other students. These scholarships can cover all four years or a two- or three-year time frame.
Nursing students in the ROTC program complete their first two years in the Nursing Program at the Pullman, Washington, campus while completing three years of ROTC training. They then switch to the Washington State University College of Nursing at the Riverpoint campus in Spokane. They complete their final two years of nursing education and the final year of ROTC while in Spokane. The College of Nursing reserves seats in each new ROTC class, thus ensuring that nursing students will have a place in the ROTC program.
Jefferson City, Tennessee, is the location for Carson-Newman and its Army ROTC program. According to its website, its program has one of the largest nursing producing programs due to the close contact between the ROTC program and the School of Nursing. Over 50 percent of the cadets in the ROTC program are nursing students. The ROTC program works with the schedules and demands of the nursing students, so there is no conflict.
The ROTC program at the University of Delaware offers undergraduate nursing students, including those returning to school, the opportunity to become Army officers. Students in the Master of Science nursing program have the chance to earn ROTC scholarships. The Nurse Summer Training Program NSTP is a paid three- to four-week, 120-hour clinical elective for Army ROTC nurse cadets. It is conducted at Army hospitals in the United States, Germany and Korea and you get paid while attending NSTP between the junior and senior year of college.