Children often follow in the footsteps of their parents and Angela Stanley, a retired commander in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps is no exception. She spent two years in Okinawa, Japan during her military ...

Today marks the 118th birthday of the Navy Nurse Corps, created by President Theodore Roosevelt and first staffed by a group of 20 nurses. The United States Navy marked the formation of the Navy Nurse ...

Nurses in the Navy Nurse Corps provide medical care to patients, just as they do working in civilian medical facilities. However, the responsibilities of Navy nurses may take them to any place in the ...

When Alene B. Duerk joined the Navy Nurse Corps, leaving her nursing job at a Toledo department store at the height of World War II, she envisioned a few months’ service to her country followed by a ...

The director of the Navy Nurse Corps, Rear Adm. Tina A. Davidson, held a town hall, promoted a young Navy nurse and participated in a cake-cutting ceremony May 9 at Walter Reed Bethesda as part of the ...

A Navy nurse explains how she inserts a tube into a hunger striker’s stomach at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 in this photo approved for release by the U.S.