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The Role of Nursing in the Military

The Role of Nursing in the Military When people hear the word "nurse," they likely think about the nurses they come into contact with at local hospitals or doctors' offices. Rarely do they think about nurses on the front lines, risking their lives with our men and women in uniform. Military nurses have not only built the pro- fession of nursing, but they have helped shape the women's and civil rights movements with a history of Military nurses rising above racial and gender boundaries. Learn about the role of nursing in the military from its beginnings to today. YOU ARE NEEDED NOW Knighthood orders formed. These were groups of men that provided nursing care to those injured in war. These orders included the Knights Hospitalers of St. John of Jerusa- lem, the Teutonic Knights, and the Knights of Larzarus. They were charged with building, organizing. and managing hospitals in the battlefield. This is the first noted time that women were asked to serve on the battlefield as nurses. ARMY NURSE CORPS The Crusades (1095-1291) American Revolution (1775-1783) 1431 The Alexian Brotherhood was established to carry the wounded from the field of Military nurses make about $77,166/year on average battle and provide care. Women were asked to pro- vide care for casualties of war on both the Union and Confederate side. They worked out of field hospitals and on boats like the Union Hospital Ship, Red Rover. The confederate army as- signed 30 men per regime to act as combat medics Civil War (1861-1865) 21,480 Army nurses and 1.476 Navy nurses served in military hospitals in the US and overseas. 18 African- American Army nurses were asked to care for German prisoners of war and African-American soldiers. Over 400 military nurses died in the line of duty - the majority were killed by highly contagious diseases like the "Spanish Flu. Dr. Mary Walker received the Medal of Honor for her work aiding casualties. 1866 Army Nurse Corps was es- tablished. - One of their first acts was to exclude men from nursing in the military. World War I 1920 (1917-1918) Spanish- American War (1898) 1908 1901 Navy Nurse Corps was established. Army Reorganization Act: Military nurses gained the status of officers with With thousands of U.S. soldiers suffering from typhoid fever, malaria, and yellow fever, the Army Medical Depart- ment was overwhelmed. To aid those in need, Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee worked with the Surgeon General to appoint the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) as professionally qualified nurses to server under contract to the US "relative rank" from 2nd lieutenant to though they did not have full rights and privileges with this provision. Army. 1,500 ci to Army hospitals 20 nurses died Dr. McGee was asked to write legislation creating a permanent corps of nurses contract nurses were assigned The Army-Navy Nurse Act of : Army and Navy nurses were granted permanent commissioned officer status in this act that made the Army Nurse Corps and Women's Medical Specialist Corps part of the Regular Army. Male to Female ratio of nurses in the Navy Male: 36% World War II (1941-1945) 1947 1948 1949 Female: 64% 1948: Executive Order 9981 ended racial segregation in the armed services. Over 60,000 Army nurses and more than 14,000 Navy nurses served in the US and overseas. 67 Army nurses were captured in 1942 by the Japanese in the Philippines. They were held as POWS for 2.5 years. 5 Navy nurses were captured and held as POWS for 5 months by the Japanese in Guam, 11 Navy nurses were captured in the Philippines and held for 37 months. The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps 1943 - The Cadet Nurse Corps was es- tablished by the US Public Health Service. It trained 125.000 women for military 1949: The Air Force Nurse Corps Male: was established. 35.5% Female: 64.5% Male to Female ratio nurses in the Army Over 500 Army nurses served in combat zones with many more working in large hospitals in Japan. Navy nurses served on Navy ships in Korea and Navy hospitals stateside. Air Force nurses served in the service Korean War (1950-1953) US in hospitals, those serving in Japan are flight nurses 1 Army nurse died in a plane crash 11 Navy nurses died in a plane crash 3 Air Force nurses died in a plane crash The first female physician became a medical officer in the Regular Army 1953 For the first time, men were accepted into the Army and Air Force Nurse Corps and the Army Medical Specialist Corps. 1955 With the Lebanon Crisis underway. military nurses were assigned to the hospitals that deployed during the crisis supporting more than 10,000 troops. 1958 1965 For the first time, men were accepted into the Navy Nurse Corps. Male: 30% Female: 70% 1971 1971: The first women in the history of the armed forces, the Chief of the Army Nurse Corps and the Women's Army Corps Director, were promoted to brigadier general. Female ratio of nurses in the Air Force Male 1972 1972: The USS Sanctuary, a Hospital Ship in the Navy. became the first naval vessel to sail with a male and female crew. Vietnam War (1965-1975) About 7,000 nurses served in Southeast Asia. An army nurse was the only U.S. mili- tary woman to die from enemy fire in Vietnam. Military nursing is a necessity in today's armed forces and con- tinues to grow in importance and reverence. TODAY 5x An all-male team of nurses is 5 times more likely to occur in the Military sources http://www.malenursemagazine.com/historyotmalenurses.htmi http://www.womensmemariat.org/Education/timeline.htmi http://www.bis gov/oco/cg/ http://www.bis govloca/cg/cgs041 htm CARRINGTON COLLEGE CALIFORNIA For comprehensive consumer information: http://carrington.edu/ce/programs/nursing-registered/ O 2011 Carrington College

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When People hear the word “nurse”, they likely think about the nurses they come in contact with at local hospitals or doctors’s offices. Rarely do they think about the nurses on the front lines,...

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