Army and Navy Nurse Corps Insignia.doi:10.1097/00000446-194104000-00025&NAAjn the American Journal of Nursing
During World War II, members of the US Army Nurse Corps took care of the sick and wounded throughout the world, often in dangerous and difficult conditions. These brave women inspired four of my novels (A Memory Between Usand theWings of the Nightingale series), so I’m sharing a four-...
Retired Lt. Col. Marcia L. Neuendorf heard her father, a Battle of the Bulge veteran, tell how the frostbite crept into his legs and an Army nurse massaged them warm through the night. He told her he had to go home and dance with his wife. That inspired her as a teenager to l...
66 Nurse Corps Officer 66B Community Health Nurse 66C Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse 66E Perioperative Nurse 66F Nurse Anesthetist 66G Obstetrics and Gyneco 66H Medical-Surgical Nurse 66N Generalist Nurse 66P Family Nurse Practitioner 67 Medical Service Corps Officer 67A Health Services 67B Laboratory...
Every regiment and corps has its own distinctive insignia, such as cap badge, beret, tactical recognition flash and stable belt. Throughout the army there are many official specialisms. They do not affect rank, but they do affect pay bands: ...
Those tending the wounded recalled how many of the wounded selflessly asked medical personnel to tend others more badly wounded than themselves; a volunteer nurse wrote her sister:“More Christian fortitude was never witnessed than they exhibit, always say-‘Help my neighbor first, he is worse.’...
Part 1:Who Could Serve in the US Army Nurse Corps Part 2: Recruitment, Training, and Military Rank Part 3:Uniforms Part 4:General Nursing Practice US Army Nurse Corps in WWII – Training & Rank Recruitment The American Red Cross served as the traditional reserve for the Army Nurse Corps. ...