As a ROTC nurse cadet, you will be able to combine college electives in military science and invaluable nurse summer training experience with your regular nursing program. You will develop your professional skills while you learn some meaningful things about yourself and what you can accomplish. You will find that your Army ROTC experience has taken you a long way toward realizing your professional goals. Partnership in Nursing Education Nursing is an extremely competitive degree program. In some colleges or universities nursing students face tough competition to get into clinical nursing classes, usually the beginning of their junior year.
Some nursing schools admit five freshmen for every clinical nursing seat.
They guarantee progression of qualified Army ROTC nurse cadets into the clinical nursing classes. The NSTP is a three-week clinical elective for Army ROTC nurse cadets. Attendance is voluntary. This paid elective is conducted at Army hospitals in the United States, Germany and Korea. You attend NSTP during the summer with Advanced Camp, which is usually attended between the Junior and Senior year of college.