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32 TAR HEEL NURSE December, 1954 qualified trained nurses to care for wounded in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines, and aboard hospital ships. Some 1200 volunteered to serve and were on hand to stem a severe typhoid epidemic. The Surgeon General soon established an Army Nurse Corps Division to direct and coordinate the efforts of military nursing. In February 1901, Congress authox’-ized the establishment of the Nurse Corps as a definite component of the Army. Mrs. Dita Kinney, a registered nurse and assistant to Dr. McGee became the first nurse superintendent of the Corps. It was not until 1920, however, that relative rank was conferred upon Army nurses, in grades from second lieutenant to major. Relative rank did not bring the Army nurses’ pay up to the level of the pay and allowances of male officers in comparable grades. In June 1922, by Congressional action, Ai*my nurses were granted $70 monthly base pay in the grade of second lieutenant, with higher grades obtaining proportionately higher pay. Twenty years later, Army nurses were again granted a pay raise this time to $90 monthly base for second lieutenant. By December of that year, 1942, with mobilization for World War II well under way. Public Law 828 increased the relative rank of Army nurses from second lieutenant up through colonel. This brought the base pay up to $150 monthly. Further recognition and status for the Army nurse came in June 1944 with passage of Public Law 350. While this Act authorized commissioned rank for nurses with the full pay and privileges of officers in their grades, it was only a temporary measure, having been based on the President’s wartime authority to appoint officers in the Army of the United States. When the Act of September 1941 Avas rescinded in January 1948, it rescinded the legal authority for the appointment of AUS nurse-officers, and all commissions expired by June of that year. The final, and perhaps most significant, step in the evolution of the Army Nurse Corps came with passage of the Army-Navy Nurses Act in April 1947. This law created an Army Nurse Corps Section in the Officers’ Reserve Corps and authorized a Regualr Army component for nurses through which, for the first time in history, women became eligible for permanent commissions in the Regular Army. Col. Florence A. Blanchfield, Chief of the Army Nurse Corps in World War II was the first woman to be commissioned in the Regular Army. In the words of Col. Ruby F. Bryant, Chief of the Army Nurse Corps: ^^Members of the Army Nurse Corps, working daily in the diversified areas of professional nursing, are contributing materially to the health and welfare of America’s fighting men. This 1955 birthday bring a deej? sense of gratification in the forward steps taken for the benefit of our patients and the Army Nurse Corps.” 3. • »• c°- Ho I Cha n.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-39: Tar Heel Nurse [1939-Present] |
Document Title | Tar Heel Nurse [1939-Present] |
Subject Topical Other | Nursing -- Periodicals. |
Description | Vols. for 1939-73 issued by the association under an earlier name: North Carolina State Nurses' Association. |
Contributor | North Carolina Nurses Association.; North Carolina State Nurses' Association. |
Publisher | Raleigh, NC : North Carolina Nurses Association, |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1955 |
Identifier | NCHH-39-017 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 17 |
Health Discipline | Nursing |
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Fixed Title * | Tar Heel Nurse [Volume 17, 1955] |
Document Title | Tar Heel Nurse [1939-Present] |
Subject Topical Other | Nursing -- Periodicals. |
Description | Vols. for 1939-73 issued by the association under an earlier name: North Carolina State Nurses' Association. |
Contributor | North Carolina Nurses Association.; North Carolina State Nurses' Association. |
Publisher | Raleigh, NC : North Carolina Nurses Association, |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1955 |
Identifier | NCHH-39-017-0000 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; document cover page |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Filename | tarheelnurseseri171955no_0000.jp2 |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 17 |
Health Discipline | Nursing |
Full Text | 32 TAR HEEL NURSE December, 1954 qualified trained nurses to care for wounded in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines, and aboard hospital ships. Some 1200 volunteered to serve and were on hand to stem a severe typhoid epidemic. The Surgeon General soon established an Army Nurse Corps Division to direct and coordinate the efforts of military nursing. In February 1901, Congress authox’-ized the establishment of the Nurse Corps as a definite component of the Army. Mrs. Dita Kinney, a registered nurse and assistant to Dr. McGee became the first nurse superintendent of the Corps. It was not until 1920, however, that relative rank was conferred upon Army nurses, in grades from second lieutenant to major. Relative rank did not bring the Army nurses’ pay up to the level of the pay and allowances of male officers in comparable grades. In June 1922, by Congressional action, Ai*my nurses were granted $70 monthly base pay in the grade of second lieutenant, with higher grades obtaining proportionately higher pay. Twenty years later, Army nurses were again granted a pay raise this time to $90 monthly base for second lieutenant. By December of that year, 1942, with mobilization for World War II well under way. Public Law 828 increased the relative rank of Army nurses from second lieutenant up through colonel. This brought the base pay up to $150 monthly. Further recognition and status for the Army nurse came in June 1944 with passage of Public Law 350. While this Act authorized commissioned rank for nurses with the full pay and privileges of officers in their grades, it was only a temporary measure, having been based on the President’s wartime authority to appoint officers in the Army of the United States. When the Act of September 1941 Avas rescinded in January 1948, it rescinded the legal authority for the appointment of AUS nurse-officers, and all commissions expired by June of that year. The final, and perhaps most significant, step in the evolution of the Army Nurse Corps came with passage of the Army-Navy Nurses Act in April 1947. This law created an Army Nurse Corps Section in the Officers’ Reserve Corps and authorized a Regualr Army component for nurses through which, for the first time in history, women became eligible for permanent commissions in the Regular Army. Col. Florence A. Blanchfield, Chief of the Army Nurse Corps in World War II was the first woman to be commissioned in the Regular Army. In the words of Col. Ruby F. Bryant, Chief of the Army Nurse Corps: ^^Members of the Army Nurse Corps, working daily in the diversified areas of professional nursing, are contributing materially to the health and welfare of America’s fighting men. This 1955 birthday bring a deej? sense of gratification in the forward steps taken for the benefit of our patients and the Army Nurse Corps.” 3. • »• c°- Ho I Cha n. |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-39/nchh-39-017.pdf |
Document Sort | all; nchh-39 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-39-017 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-39 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1597694 |
Revision History | keep |
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