Army Nurse Corps' History In the Making With the 47th CSH

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Army Nurse Corps.History In the MakingWith
the 47th CSH
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Nurse Corps began during theWar of Independence
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For Us It all Began at Fort Lewis
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What did I volunteer for?
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One Big Packing Nightmare
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The Big Wait in Kuwait
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The longest week ever
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Catch us if you can We are going to Tikrit!
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Civil War Nurses Made 40 cents a day, lived in
tents and were rationed one meal
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Which makes this FOBulous!
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Enjoying 5 Star Accommodations!
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We will find the Floor Someday
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And apparently, 4 meals just arent enough
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The Spanish-American War brought epidemics of
tropical diseases
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Medical Staff in Iraq Still Aim to Eradicate The
Crud
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WWI nursing shortage caused the need for nursing
aids
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Today, No Work Would be Done Without Our Medics
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Nothing says Action Quite like this
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WWI also used Nurse Anesthetists for the first
time Training only lasted 6 weeks!
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Today they go through thirty months of training
and are still lost at times
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Scheming to collect frequent flyer miles from
these deployments
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After the 37th Hour Dreaming about those RN Days
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Learning from our Elders(If only we could hear
them)
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WWI Hospital Ward
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The DUB!
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Patients treating Patients
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Care with a Smile and a lot of coffee!
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The Golden Girls
Sophia
Rose
Blanche
Dorthey
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Three Nurses in WWI Received the Second Highest
Award for Valor
The Distinguished Service Cross
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47th CSH Nurses Were Honored as Stache Contest
Judges!
And participants
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Off With The Stache! And then some
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56,793 Nurses Served inWorld War II
The Largest Group in the Nurse Corps Ever
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Nurses lived in the Field in the middle of combat
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WWII
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Laundry WWII Style
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The 48th Surgical Hospital took care of the
people of North Africa the Day of the Invasion

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Nurse Corps Treats All
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Nightly Entertainment
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The Korean War Brought Nurses Overseas Yet Again
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During this conflict more intensive medicine was
developed in the field
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ICU! But Where are the Patients?
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OR! Sweating More Everyday
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After Korea, Male Nurses Were finally Authorized
Commissions
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No looking back
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Top Gun 2 Flight Murse
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Duty Called in Vietnam
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Look Whos Going To War
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After 8 meals of Beef or Chicken
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Advances in Trauma began in Vietnam
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Still Trying to work out all the kinks
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EMT!
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Teamwork often means not tripping over eachother
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Sick Call is Closed! GO TO EMT!
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The Importance of Smoking Cessation
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The Early 1980s Took Nurses To Panama and
Grenada
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During This time, the Corps also focused on
Professional Development.
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We Still have So Much More to Sleep Through
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1990 - Desert Storm
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47th CSH Deployed to Saudi Arabia and then went
to Iraq
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ICU Nurses Became a hot commodity
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Seeing the 8A hard at Work is a Treasured
Experience
Cross Trained in Knitting!
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But Seriously, Have Some Fun
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Smile, This isnt Madigan!!!
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Dance Like Nobody will gossip about it
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Get Crazy! Find that Inner Beast!
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Be real even when the beer isnt
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Beware of Insurgents!
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Take What you Get From The Chief Nurse with a
Smile
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And Get Back To Work!
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If only there were an ocean for all this sun and
sand
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Army Nurse Corps Operation Iraqi Freedom
IV Tikrit, Iraq
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Key Players

• Nursing Services
• MAJ Deary
• MAJ Nenninger
• MAJ Baysa
• CPT Milam
• CPT Miller
• 1LT Cahill
• EMT
• CPT Petrukitas
• CPT Wright
• CPT Garrison
• 1LT Riley
• 1LT Rodzevik
• 1LT Showalter
• 2LT Dualan

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Key Players

• Anesthesia
• MAJ Silvasy
• MAJ Phillips
• CPT Watters
• CPT Scott
• OR
• MAJ Hulse
• MAJ Swensen
• CPT Williams
• 1LT Altobello

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Key Players

• ICU
• CPT Cowen
• CPT Cooley
• CPT Partridge
• CPT Balsamo
• CPT Toney
• 1LT Jurges
• 1LT Robinson
• 1LT Pangelian
• 1LT Doherty
• 1LT Stevens
• 1LT Garret

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Key Players

• ICW
• CPT Rhodes
• CPT Bryant
• CPT Rutz
• 1LT Rodondi
• 1LT Benson
• 1LT Hedlund
• 1LT Stackpole
• 2LT Rogers
• 2LT Winsky
• 2LT Argentino
• 2LT Abenoja
• ACC
• MAJ Shiraishi
• MAJ Diaz
• Community Health

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• This has been a 47th CSH
• Army Nurse Production.
• Tikrit, Iraq 2005-2006
• Task Force Vangard.
• Created By 1LT Theresa Rodzevik

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