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Pages in category "United States Navy Nurse Corps officers" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The Army-Navy Nurses Act took effect on 16 April 1947, establishing the Navy Nurse Corps as a staff corps, with officers holding permanent commissioned rank from Ensign to Commander. The corps was to be led by a director holding the rank of Captain while in that position.
Houghton became the Senior nurse corps Officer, Navy Medical Unit, Tripler Army General Hospital in Hawaii in 1950. She subsequently served as Chief Nurse at San Diego Naval Hospital in 1952 and as Chief Nurse, Bethesda Naval Hospital in 1954. She became the first Navy nurse other than the Director to be promoted to the rank of captain in 1957 ...
This is a list of naval officer designators in the United States Navy.In the United States Navy, all active and reserve component officers are assigned to one of four officer communities, based on their education, training, and assignments: Line Officers (divided into Unrestricted Line or URL, Restricted Line or RL, and Restricted Line Special Duty or RL SD), Staff Corps Officers, Limited Duty ...
After several assignments as chief nurse, she was promoted to the rank of captain in 1970. As Director of the Navy Nurse Corps , she became the second woman promoted to the rank of rear admiral . [ 2 ]
Dauser was appointed superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1939. Serving in that capacity throughout the Second World War, she supervised the great wartime expansion of the corps and its activities throughout the world. Under her administration, the membership of the corps grew from 436 to over 11,000 by 1945.
CAPT DeWitt took over as Superintendent in April 1946 at a time when the Nurse Corps was shrinking in size due to demobilization after World War II. On April 16, 1947, the Navy Nurse Corps became a staff corps, meaning that officers in the Nurse Corps were Navy officers. CAPT DeWitt became the Director of the Navy Nurse Corps.
Owen P. Honors, Jr. – captain, former CO of USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Esek Hopkins – first Commander in Chief of the Navy during the Revolutionary War; Grace Hopper – futurist, early computing pioneer, rear admiral in the Navy Reserve; George Howard, Jr. – first African-American federal judge in Arkansas history; served in World War II.