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68C Practical Nursing Specialist

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Overview

Practical Nursing Specialists perform or supervise preventive, therapeutic, and emergency nursing care procedures. They carry out these procedures under the supervision of a physician, nurse, or noncommissioned officer.

Minimum ASVAB: ST 101

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: smartbook-611-21-ch10c-fy2025 (source date 2025-12). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Emergency nursing care under supervision
  • Senior-level ward and nursing personnel supervision

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

Supervised preventive, therapeutic, and emergency nursing care directly overlaps with civilian practical and vocational nursing duties.

How to prepare: Contact the nursing regulatory body where you plan to practice to confirm whether your current practical/vocational nurse license meets its requirements. MOS 68C already requires NCLEX-PN passage and a current state or territory license for award and retention.

What the civilian work involves
  • Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
  • Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
  • Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Epic Systems
  • MEDITECH software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Smartbook DA PAM 611-21, Chapter 10C, MOS 68C

    [1] Section 10-68C a and b(9); cached text lines 9450-9483

    Supports: Emergency nursing care under supervision, Senior-level ward and nursing personnel supervision, Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses (O*NET 29-2061.00)

  2. O*NET: Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses (O*NET 29-2061.00)

  3. NCSBN: NCLEX & Other Exams

    [3] Ready to Take the NCLEX? section

    Supports: Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses (O*NET 29-2061.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 68C

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

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