Help- Need Info

[puckmedic]

My wife has suggested we crunch the numbers. If we can actually reduce our out put on bills by consolidating into one loan, she has suggested I begin school right awayor as soon as I can.

It looks like I'm going to try and go to school for Respitory Therapy. Local community college here has 21 month program and a 100% employment placement with in six months of graduation.

I made calls to TN, MO, KY and MS Nursing Boards and left messages. Looking to see if military training can be converted in either of those states and can I work in that state with an out of state license then challenge their boards after a period of time?

Here's where I need help. I got upon retirement a thing form some place showing all my Navy training, schools, classes and pay bgrades and equivalant college credits. I can't find it and don't even know how to find another copy or even what its called.

Where can I get one? if not that, can I get a letter from somewhere stating what the curriculim back in 1986 was? Field Med school as well in 1992?

I may need that for the licensing boards to show proof I reall was an HM (besides the bulldog and sailor hat and the mental deficiencies I obviuosly have)

Can any one point me in the right direction?

[HMC-FMF-PJ]

Sailor/Marine American Council on Education Registry Transcript (SMART)
https://smart.navy.mil/

Navy Training Management & Planning System (NTMPS) Electronic Training Jacket (ETJ)
https://ntmpsweb.ntmps.navy.mil/etjclient/ETJ_Main.aspx

Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System (NSIPS)
https://nsips.nmci.navy.mil/

[psencik1950]

I'm not sure what kind of nurse licensing you are looking for. California has the widest spread on what they will take. The old Army 91-C was basicly LVN school and that actually gets grads the opportunity to sit for boards.
Navy doesn't have an equivalent program. When I got out during the Dark Ages, Tx told me that Navy training was geared too much towards the independent practice of medicine and thus outside the legal realm of nursing. Still remember the crap they handed me.

RNs are more set up to multiple state recognition with the Nurse Compact system. You might try googling Nurse Compact. So, as a Tx RN I can practice in quite a few states without going thru the process if I am a travel RN, live across the state line, etc.

LVN's are allowed to do various things and different levels in different states. In NJ, in the 90's, my LVNs could only perform certain tasks - they could not split meds - if it called for half a pill, it had to come packaged from the pharmacy like that. They could not do IV drugs. In Tx, it is pretty wide open. There are still some drugs that an LVN cannot give. Certain things can be delegated by the RN, e.g. foleys, IVs with proper training, etc. Others cannot - in the ER, a RN must triage each patient, it cannot delegated to anyone else.
So, I really know nothing about the LVN compact, etc.

Nurse practitioners are just now getting set up into the compact - Tx, Iowa, and Utah are the only three in the NP compact right now. I am interested in that one as a Family Nurse Practitioner - I guess it took a Master's to get back to where they told me I was in 1972.

Ben

[puckmedic]

How did I know HMC -FMF-PJ would come up with the links I needed ? I love this person!

As for the nursing issue, let's just say I am planning on moving back into the world of health care and an LPN gig part time will pay me better while I attend school for RESP Therapy.

I figure if I was qualified to teach the darn stuff, maybe just maybe TN, KY, MO, or MS (I am in TN and all of the others are close enough to consider driving to) will allow my Navy training and experience to count towards the set up of a license. If not, I still plan to go to RESP school and quit being the bill collector. I have to sacrifice a little now for a bigger reward later. Say good bye to my F 150, and say hello to 365 a year riding the MC!!!