U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Yokosuka hosted a nursing student exchange with Yokohama City University at U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Aug 7th to strengthen medical partnerships with their host nation counterparts.

Two college nursing students sacrificed part of their summer break from pursuing their nursing degrees to don hospital scrubs and participate in the U.S. Army Nurse Summer Training Program at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, from July 5-31, 2024

Underdogs require resilience, perseverance, and grit. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Michael Ryan Pribhdas, flight and operational medical technician with 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, has proven to have all of that and more on his journey to the Nurse Enlisted Commissioning program.

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

Chief Master Sergeant Tanya Y. Johnson, Senior Enlisted Leader for the Defense Health Agency, shares personal stories of how military nurses have impacted her life at the 2024 Nurses Week Celebration held in Falls Church, VA.

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Tanya Johnson, Defense Health Agency Senior Enlisted Leader, speaks at an event held at Defense Health Headquarters to honor nurses during National Nurses Week on May 10, 2024.

Defense Health Agency Chief Nursing Officer Dr. Kristen Atterbury hosted an event at Defense Health Headquarters honoring nurses as a part of National Nurses Week, May 6–10, 2024. The event included special guest speakers, a blessing of the hands, cake cutting, and the announcement the winners of the DHA nursing awards.

U.S. Army Chaplain MAJ Daniel Garnett, Defense Health Agency operations chaplain, gives the blessing of the hands, to all DHA medical personnel during an event honoring National Nurses Week on May 10, 2024, at Defense Health Headquarters.

U.S. Navy CAPT Paul Loesche, Defense Health Agency Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, DHA Chief Nursing Officer Dr. Kristen Atterbury, and U.S. Army COL Pamela Dipatrizio, took part in an event at the Defense Health Headquarters on May 10, 2024, celebrating National Nurses Week.

U.S. Army Nurse Corps officer COL Pamela Dipatrizio participates in National Nurses Week events at the Defense Health Agency each year dressed as Florence Nightingale, and sometimes exhibits historical nursing and medical artifacts that she has collected throughout her military career.

U.S. Air Force Col. Gwendolyn Foster, Director of Staff for the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General; Defense Health Agency Chief Nursing Officer Dr. Kristen Atterbury; U.S. Navy CAPT Alison Castro Deputy Corps Chief of the Navy Nurse Corps; and U.S. Army COL Jodelle Schroeder, Deputy Corps Chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, cut the cake during a ...

U.S. Army Nurse Corps officer COL Pamela Dipatrizio participates in National Nurses Week events at the Defense Health Agency each year dressed as Florence Nightingale, and sometimes exhibits historical nursing and medical artifacts that she has collected throughout her military career.

Defense Health Agency Chief Nursing Officer Dr. Kristen Atterbury hosted an event at Defense Health Headquarters honoring nurses as a part of National Nurses Week, May 6–10, 2024. The event included special guest speakers, a blessing of the hands, cake cutting, and the announcement the winners of the DHA nursing awards.

U.S. Army COL Jodelle M. Schroeder, Deputy Corps Chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and U.S. Army COL Pamela Dipatrizio, took part in an event at the Defense Health Headquarters on May 10, 2024, celebrating National Nurses Week.

Defense Health Agency Chief Nursing Officer Dr. Kristen Atterbury, Dr. Debbie Hatmaker, Chief Nursing Officer of the American Nurses Association, and U.S. Army COL Pamela Dipatrizio, took part in an event at the Defense Health Headquarters on May 10, 2024, celebrating National Nurses Week.