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First Navy Nurse Corps officer to be a Joint Task Force surgeon, at Guantanamo Bay. 2002 RADM Karthleen L. Martin First Navy Nurse Corps officer assigned as Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy. 2002 LT Patricia C. Hasen First Navy Nurse Corps officer to be formally appointed as a flag lieutenant (e.g., aide) to a flag rank unrestricted line officer.
U.S. Navy Nurse and released POW aboard USS Benevolence, 1945. 1939–1945 – Military and naval nurses from numerous countries serve outside their countries. 1941–45 – Over 59,000 American women serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps [61] 1941–45 – Over 11,000 women serve in the United States Navy Nurse Corps
A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (1999) excerpt and text search; Sterner, Doris. In and Out of Harm's Way: A History of the Navy Nurse Corps (1998) Telford, Jennifer Casavant. "The American Nursing Shortage during World War I: The Debate over the Use of Nurses’ Aids." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 27.1 (2010): 85-99. online
She was director of nursing services at the Naval Hospital in San Diego. [1] [2] In 1971 she attended the celebration in Hartford, Connecticut, marking the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the Navy Nurse Corps. [6] Stratton became Director of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1991, and was promoted to the rank of rear admiral (lower half). [2]
The Sacred Twenty were a group of nurses who were the first female members to ever formally serve in the United States Navy representing the Nurse Corps. Officially formed in 1908, the Sacred Twenty made broad contributions during wartime, not only including training of field nurses and disease treatment, but also providing education programs ...
1901: The United States establishes the Army Nurse Corps as a permanent part of the Army. The Corps remains all-female until 1955. [1] [2] 1908: The United States establishes the Navy Nurse Corps on 13 May. The Corps remains all-female until 1965. [1] [3] The first 20 nurses (the first women in the Navy) report to Washington, D.C. in October ...
Dauser became a Navy Nurse in September 1917, subsequently serving with Naval Base Hospital Number 3 in the U.S. and in Edinburgh, Scotland during World War I, holding the grade of Chief Nurse for most of that period. Following World War I, she was placed in charge of nursing activities at the U.S. Naval Hospital at San Diego, California.
[1] [2] She graduated from the Lincoln School for Nurses, studied public health at the Teachers College, Columbia University, and worked at a city hospital. After the United States entered World War II, she repeatedly applied to the Army Nurse Corps and Navy Nurse Corps, the latter of which desegregated on January 25, 1945. [3] [4]