Benefits
The benefits of Army nursing are limitless and provide an enriching experience that includes service to others and worldwide travel!
- Commission as an officer in the United States Army
- Choose to work at one of 37 medical facilities around the world
- Preceptorship of 30-90 days, based on your needs
- Receive a tax-free housing allowance (money to pay your rent or mortgage)
- Free medical and dental care
- Low-cost life insurance
- 30 days paid vacation a year, plus 10 holidays
- No malpractice insurance needed
- Commissary and post-exchange shopping at considerable savings
- Moving expenses paid
- Positions available in clinical, administrative, and educational specialties in a variety of settings (you may even apply to be the White House Nurse)
- Outstanding continuing education and advanced degree opportunities
- Professional autonomy
- Travel (free vacation flights around the world on space-available status)
- Steady increases in pay and allowances (within 4 years, you will surpass most individuals in the civilian world
- Regular progression in promotions and selection for positions of increasing responsibility
- Maintain seniority as you change locations and jobs
- Practice in an all-baccalaureate-degree-prepared Nurse Corps
A School of Choice
Lily Field knows exactly what she wants to do with her future: serve her country as an active duty nurse in the United States Army. Her goal after graduating from high school was to find a university with a strong nursing program and a high-quality Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) program. Radford University was a natural choice.