The Defense Health Agency celebrated nurses during a National Nurses Week event held May 10, 2024, at DHA headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia.

U.S. Army Corps nurses played a pivotal role in the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, the largest sea, air, and land invasion in history. Eighty years ago, the allied forces, including nearly 160,000 American, British, and Canadian service members, landed on the beaches at Normandy and began pushing inland. Nurses were deployed soon ...

Dr. Lolita O’Donnell’s military nursing roots took hold more than three decades ago, and although no longer a military nurse, those ideals still influence her duties as the DHA’s Education and Training Directorate’s chief of Executive Skills, Continuing Education & Libraries, and director of the Continuing Education Program Office.

Nurses make a difference—every day, anytime, anywhere, always—is the message from the Defense Health Agency as National Nurses Week is celebrated, May 6-12, 2024. Around the Military Health System, nurses provide essential, person-centered care that keeps our military communities healthy. Military and civilian nurses make a difference through their ...

The Defense Health Agency will recognize the finest nursing personnel within the Department of Defense and DHA beginning in 2024.

The Defense Health Agency recognized Women’s Equality Day, the celebration of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, on August 10 with a virtual presentation about the history of women in military medicine.

Two military nurses may have taken different paths to their chosen profession, but their stories share common ground.

Nurses at DHA are leading the charge toward a person-centric care model says Chief Nursing Officer Simonson.

The future of nursing is here due in part to changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Treating wounded soldiers for the first time was a life-changing experience for this enlisted medic.

The U.S. Air Force medical team, working side-by-side with civilian medical professionals, has been deployed in support of continued Department of Defense COVID-19 response operations.

Nurses across the Military Health System have played a vital role in providing routine patient care and meeting the needs of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nurses are unique, they follow a calling to care for others. Military nurses do that as well as serve their nation. For Nurses Week, the MHS highlights some of their own.

Nurses account for the majority of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, are a tight-knit group, and wear plenty of hats.

Navy nurse contributes to Navy mission while representing Asian Pacific Americans as the only certified nurse midwifes