The White Falcon - 15.05.1964, Blaðsíða 5

WHITE FALCON
Friday, May 15, 1964
Friday, May 15, 1964
IT’S A BOY — Mrs. H.A. Lieberman proudly holds her young son
born April 29, while Lt. J.T. McIntyre looks on. The child was named
Darryl Erick, the proud father is Lt. H.A. Lieberman of the Dental
Corps.
SUPERVISING CORPSMAN — Lt. McIntyre supervises R.M. Ousley,
HN, in lifting and moving the injured limb without too much dis-
comfort to the patient. The patient in this case is Charles Bolen, AN.
A HELPING HAND — Nurse Veronica Gruber, Lt. Cdr., USN, aids
Dr. J.C. Hoover, Lt., USNR, as he examines patient, Kenneth L. Mering.
Nurse Corps Observe 56 th
1908
Last Wednesday The Navy Nurses celebrated
their 56th year of service to the United States
Military Services.
The Navy Nurse Corps was established by
an act of Congress on May 13, 1908 and con-
sisted of one suprintendent and nineteen staff
nurses who reported for duty to the U. S.
Naval Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Nurse Corps Today.
Currently there are over two thousand Navy
Nurse Corps Officers proudly serving in 22
stateside hospitals and three overseas hospitals,
in 29 Hospitals and in numerous dispensaries
at home and abroad, as well as instructors in
the two Hospital Corps Schools.
Some of the overseas activities where the
nurses are now serving besides Iceland, are
Japan, Phillippines, Guam, Cuba, Bermuda,
Newfoundland, Roosevelt Roads, P.R., Alaska,
England, France, Spain, Italy and Morocco.
The Naval Station Hospital at Keflavik is
presently staffed by eight Navy Nurses.
AIDS CORPSMAN — Lt. Cdr. Veronica Gruber helps Corpsman K.C.
Rubeck prepare patient for X-ray.
Corps Increase.
At the peak of World War n the Corps in-
creased and served in forty hospitals, one hund-
red and seventy-six dispensaries and six Hos-
pital Corps Schools. They brought nursing care
to the front lines aboard twelve hospital ship,
in air evacuation of casualties and to foreign
lands. They were assigned to naval activities
in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, New Zealand,
Australia, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Rus-
sell Islands, Salmon Islands, Admirality Is-
lands, Mariana Islands, England, Africa, Italy,
Newfoundland, Bermudia, Cuba and Trinidad.
When the surrender was signed aboard the
USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay in August 1945,
nurses were stationed aboard the three hos-
pital ships of the Third Fleet, waiting to go
ashore to administer care to the allied priso-
ners and to evacuate them from Japan.
In December 1941, five nurses stationed on
Guam were taken to Japan as prisoners and
repatriated in 1942. However, 11 nurses captured
at Manila were imprisoned for 37 months, being
released in 1945.
COUNSELING CORPSMAN — Cdr. E.M. Gallagher’s responsibilities
lie not only in the welfare of her patients, but in the proper guidance
and counceling of her personnel. Above she confers with M.L.
Logan, HN.
Rank Authorized.
Temporary relative rank for nurses was
authorized in 1942 for the duration of the
emergency, but in april 1947, the Army-Navy
Nurses Act was enacted making the Nurse
Corps a permanent staff corps in the U.S.
Navy, and its members commissioned rank from
Ensign to Captain.
The Navy Nurses’ important mission in-
cludes quality nursing care of the injured and
sick military personnel and their dependents
and instructing and supervising Hospital Corps-
men.
PROPER TECHNIQUE — Lt. Cdr. Patricia Staab supervises operating
room technician G.M. Panel in care and selection of sterile instruments.
WHITE FALCON
Anniversary
1964
Keflavik Nurses
Cdr. E.M. Gallagher is assigned as Senior
Nurse. Her duties comprise of both of those of
nursing and administration. She has a Bachelor
of Science degree in Nursing and a Nursing spe-
ciality in Pediatrics. Cdr. Gallagher has resent-
ly received orders to the U.S. Naval Hospital,
St. Albans, N.Y.
Cdr. E.M. Walker is assigned as Anaesthetist
and Operating Room Supervisor. She will re-
lieve Cdr. Gallagher as Senior Nurse in July at
which time she will have additional administ-
rative duties.
Lt. Cdr. Barbara Lee is a graduate of Indi-
ana University with a Bachelor of Science in
Nursing and recently received her Master De-
gree in Nursing at St. Johns University, N.Y.
Lt. Cdr. Lee is presently assigned to Ward II,
which is the sick quarters for enlisted person-
nel. Her duties not only include patient care but
the instruction and supervision of the corps-
men.
Lt. Cdr. Elsie Bryant recently reported here
from Bethsda and, like the other nurses, has
found nursing much the same in Iceland as
in other parts of the country.
Lt. Cdr. Veronica Gruber has been assigned
to all services at the Station Hospital and her
interest lies in the nursing care of patients.
She has recently received a letter of commenda-
tion for her participation in the Naval Station
Freedoms Foundation entry. She has orders
to the U. S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass.
Lt. Cdr. Patricia Staab is presently assigned
to the Sick Officers Quarters and Dependents
area of the hospital. She claims her duties
are most interesting as she has the opportunity
to meet all the newborns in Keflavik. She has
orders to the U. S. Naval Hospital, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Lt. Cdr. Jeanne Zuclich is presently assigned
to the Outpatient Clinic — a sevice which
readily aquaints her with all dependents of the
Naval Sation. Her duties are not solely those
of outpatient service as she also functions in
all areas of the hospital.
Lt. Joan McIntyre is a graduate of Boston
University with a Bachelor of Science Degree
in Nursing. She is one of many Waves who,
through interest, proficiency and an outstand-
ing record was chosen by the Nursing
Division for education in the Nursing Pro-
gram, prior to becoming a Navy Nurse Corps
Officer. Her duties here have been general
nursing in all areas. She presently has orders
to Columbia University, N. Y., to complete a
Master Program in Medical-Surgical Super-
vision.
Mission Same
The nurses at Keflavik agree that the nurs-
ing program is much the same here as every-
where and that the mission of the nurse hasn’t
changed in 56 years of service.
The Keflavik nurses have and are maintain-
ing the highest standards of nursing and it is
their desire to continue to do so here or at
any naval installation to which they may be
assigned anywhere in the world.
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BACTERIA — This was Nancy Hurlock’s High School Science Fair
project and with the assistance of a laboratory technician she spent
many hours in the laboratory watching her project grow. Above she
is assisted by S. M. Ostrowski HM2.
STERILIZATION VS INFECTION — Nena Markusson and Kathy
McMahon prepare their project with the aid of Lt. Cdr. Staab and
R.E. Roach. The students project was one of hospital staff personnel
interested and the students visited the hospital daily to work with
the staff in preparing the project.
INOCULATIONS — Cdr. E. M. Gallagher and K.F. Farrell, HN,
observe Pattie French’s blue ribbon winning display on inoculations.
Pattie spent her study periods for weeks observing reactions of all
persons receiving inoculations. She also observed the method and
technique used by hospital personnel. Pattie not only won first place,
but has decided to make nursing her profession.