For 36 years, retired U.S. Navy nurse Ruby Brooks patched up the wounded – first as staff nurse, then a surgical nurse. World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War kept her very busy and very ...

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, named for the pioneering Navy nurse and Navy Cross recipient, debuted a new battle flag as it pulled into port in San Diego ...

Capt. Sandra Hearn, Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River's Senior Nurse Executive, led the Command's observance of the Navy Nurse Corps' Birthday celebration. During the ceremony, the clinic's youngest ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Few people grasp the cost of war. But, military nurses do. “It was a rude awakening to see what they suffered as far as what their injuries were — too many amputees, burns. Napalm ...

DANVILLE, Calif. - Alice Darrow has been honored as one of the last living links to Pearl Harbor as a Navy nurse during World War II. Saturday, she was celebrated by family, friends, and community ...

Capt. Janice Lufkin, RN, a retired decorated Navy nurse and former head nurse of the cardiac care unit at Philadelphia-based Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, died May 13 of heart failure, The ...

Ann "Darby" Reynolds, Captain, Nurse Corps, US Navy, (ret) died February 25, 2024, at Riverwoods, Exeter NH. Born in Dover, NH on 12 Sept 1939, she was the daughter of the late Frank and Ann Reynolds ...

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1838 - The Exploring Expedition led by Lt. Charles Wilkes embarks on a world cruise. 1908 - The first Navy Nurse Corps superintendent, Esther Voorhees Hasson, is appointed. Under her leadership, 19 ...

On May 13, Nurses Week 2013 concluded at Walter Reed Bethesda with the 105th birthday celebration of the Navy Nurse Corps. During the festivities, Rear Adm. Elizabeth Niemyer, deputy chief, Wounded, ...