Bill Text: NJ S2845 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs Board of Nursing to encourage nursing schools to give academic credit to students for training received in US military as corpsmen and medics.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-12 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee [S2845 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S2845-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)
SYNOPSIS
Directs Board of Nursing to encourage nursing schools to give academic credit to students for training received in US military as corpsmen and medics.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning nursing training and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The New Jersey Board of Nursing shall encourage schools of nursing approved by the board to consider granting a nursing student, who served in the United States military, academic credit toward the student's nursing degree for the student's prior training and experience as a Naval Corpsman or Army Medic.
2. This act shall take effect on the 90th day after enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill directs the New Jersey Board of Nursing to encourage schools of nursing approved by the board to consider granting a nursing student, who served in the United States military, academic credit toward the student's nursing degree for the student's prior training and experience as a Naval Corpsman or Army Medic.
