20FEB2025 Okinawa, Japan Kadena Air Base, Enlisted Rocker Club. U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Okinawa co-facilitated and co-hosted the first Joint Nursing Symposium in Okinawa, Japan. There were over 75 healthcare leaders from USNMRTC Okinawa, the 3d Medical Battalion,...

AGANA HEIGHTS, Guam — Navy Cmdr. Desirae Pierce has twice helped transform how naval hospitals care for their tiniest patients. Now, as U.S. Naval Hospital Guam's lead for the innovative Neonatal Stabilization and Treatment (NeST) team, she's enhancing care for newborns who need specialized medical...

The decision to serve in the United States armed services is a choice that resonates uniquely with each individual who eventually raises their hand and takes the oath of office.For Ensign Janiece Davis, the path to becoming a Navy Nurse Corps officer wasn't a sudden decision, but a natural...

The commitment to enhance medical readiness was visually evident recently at Naval Hospital Bremerton.U.S. Navy and U.S. Army Nurse Corps officers, along with hospital corpsmen assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton, honed their evidence based practice skills at a TriService...

Critical multidisciplinary skill sustainment training included a little faux assistance at Naval Hospital Bremerton, February 11, 2025.As Navy Nurse Corps officers, civilian registered nurses and hospital corpsmen filed into NHB’s Skills Fair, amongst the training modules designed to refresh their...

Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton graduated six nurses from the Nurse Residency Program during a graduation ceremony held Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in the hospital galley meeting room aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.The residency program is administered by the Directorate of Nursing Services and is...

Courtesy story by Megan Lemly, Navy Office of Community OutreachMILLINGTON, Tenn. – Lt. Jose MendezAmbriz, a native of Fresno, California, was recently selected as Junior Officer of the Quarter (JOQ), third quarter, while serving with U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC)...

11 October 2024, Himeji, Japan Commander Angela M. Jordan, Nurse Corps, USN, and Ms. Sachiko Medoruma, USNH Okinawa Community Relations Specialist from U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, visited Himeji University School of Nursing as a guest lecturer and interpreter for the university’s second year...

Lt. Cmdr. Joseph “Joey” Biddix, a perioperative nurse and Division Officer of the Sterile Processing Department at Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms (NHTP) from June 2022 to June 2023, has been honored with a 1st place finish in the Navy Nurse Corps’ RADM Elizabeth S. Niemyer Award for Evidence-Based...

It’s a jungle out there.For Lt. Jane W. Njenga, helping others survive in that unforgiving environment is her purposeful mission.Njenga has recently completed Military Tropical Medicine training in the Central American county of Honduras gaining firsthand experience confronting tropical diseases...