laughter_every_day
A nurse has 4 years of training. A corpsman has 4 months of training. Corpsmen can get advanced training and have greater technical proficiency in some areas than a nurse who has no such advanced training, but that would be in a narrow field. X-ray techs are corpsmen, not nurses, but in the civilian world, x-ray techs are not nurses. The Navy can use corpsman in surgery in ways where there is no civilian equivalent. An independent duty corpsman has a lot of advanced training and they can be very good, but that again is in a more limited and technical sense.
NWIP
Nurse is an officer who has a BS in Nursing and a Corpsman is Enlisted who has medical training for about 3 months similar to EMT
Mrsjvb
a nurse has a BSN. an HM has 14 weeks of what amounts to First Responder training. it takes much additional training and certification exams for an HM to be close to a civilian EMT or Paramedic.
jeeper_peeper321
years of training
a nurse is a nurse-- requires a college degree in nursing
a corpsman is like a EMT-- requires weeks of training
USAFisnumber1
A nurse is an officer, has at least a four year bachelors degree in nursing and is licensed in at least one state as a Registered Nurse. A corpsman is enlisted. He is a combination of an orderly, a nursing assistant, an LPN and an EMT/paramedic. The corpsman is always under the authority of an officer, usually a nurse but it could be a doctor too. Corpsmen are often assigned to be with a Marine unit, in which case they would serve as a combat medic. While there is a direct civilian counterpart to a nurse, there is none for a corpsman. If the corpsman wants to use his skills outside he will have to get a license as an EMT, an LPN or perhaps a nursing assistant. Without the licenses, there is little he can do in the civilian world.