Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Patuxent River [Patuxent River, MD]Hospital Corpsman Third Class (HM3) Andrew Conklin, HM3 McKellen Jaramillo, and HM3 Rickey Samuels recently led a Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) course for fellow sailors at NMRTC Patuxent River. TCCC is a...

MAYPORT, Florida – The U.S. Navy Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) will deploy this June-August to the U.S. Southern Command area of operations as part of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2025 mission. After several months of detailed planning,...

The sound of explosions tore through the morning calm and shredded a squad on patrol.Man down meant corpsman up.The faux firefight was proving ground for hospital corpsmen assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton to hone their Tactical Combat Casualty Care abilities in an...

U.S. Navy Capt. Kim P. Shaughnessy-Granger, director of Naval Health Clinic Annapolis and Commanding Officer of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Annapolis, has been honored with the Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing’s Distinguished Leadership in Nursing...

SIGONELLA, Italy – On May 6, 2025, United States Naval Hospital (USNH) Sigonella and U.S. Naval Medical Readiness and Training Unit (USNMRTU) Bahrain marked the beginning of Nurses Week with solemn Blessing of the Hands ceremonies—a cherished tradition that recognizes the sacred role of nurses and...

Poitras is a 1987 graduate of Scituate High School. Additionally, Poitras graduated from Rhode Island College in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in music and from the Community College of Rhode Island - Lincoln Campus for Nursing in 2003 as a licensed practical nurse.Today, Poitras is a civilian nurse...