Jeremy J. Hawker, MSN, RN, NC, USN, assumed the role of vice president of Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer at ...

Jenny Williams went from a freshly graduated nursing student to an experience-hardened Navy nurse in just a few short years. And it all started with a dare. Williams was born in Haywood County, moved ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Tribune News Service) — In March of 1945, there was a parade honoring the homecoming of Lt. Margaret “Peggy” Nash, a U.S. Navy nurse who had served in the Philippines, where she was ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — When Angie Gault was deployed to Operation Desert Storm in 1991, she had to say goodbye to her 5-month-old daughter. Just one of the sacrifices she made during her 32-year Naval ...

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 ...

Mayra Lizeth Fujiwara, RN has many names. Her kids call her Mom. Her patients call her “nurse.” In the military, service members called her Chief, sometimes Sparky — a term of endearment for U.S. Navy ...

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, ...

Lt. Holly Sapien, a Navy Nurse Corps officer (second from left), pauses for a photo on April 15 after responding to a medical emergency on a Washington state ferry. (Douglas Stutz/Courtesy photo) A ...

USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee is one of the navy’s newest ships The USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, a guided-missile destroyer, was recently launched by the United States Navy. The ship, christened in 2021, ...

When a recent plea for medical help came from the crew of a disabled Washington state ferry, a Navy nurse answered the call. Lt. Holly Sapien, who is assigned to Naval Hospital Bremerton and was a ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. Navy nurse has refused to force-feed prisoners who are on an extended hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, the first protest of its kind at the detention center, a ...