Army Nurse Overview
As a member of the Army Nurse Corps, you'll be given opportunities of a lifetime! Your role as an Army Officer will afford you the chance to care for your patients in a variety of settings. Army Nurses have autonomy to practice nursing in a way that is unmatched by civilian health care facilities. Your professional judgment will be the driving force behind leading your nursing team to provide full spectrum patient care.

The Army Nurse Corps believes in a holistic nursing philosophy. You'll identify and organize multi-disciplinary resources for patients and their families to help them with inpatient, outpatient and home care. You'll be able to understand the special concerns and needs of your Soldier patients because you're also a Soldier, which allows you to better serve them. Identifying with your fellow Soldiers is essential to providing effective health care.

Explore your options in the Army Nurse Corps at: http://www.goarmy.com/amedd/nurse/

ABOUT THE ARMY NURSE CORPS
Army Nurse Corps:  More Than 100 Years of Service to Our Nation! Ready, Caring, Proud.

"The Army nurse is the symbol to the soldier of help and relief in his hour of direst need.  Through mud and mire, through the mark of campaign and battle, wherever the fight leads, she patiently – gallantly – seeks the wounded and distressed.  Her comfort knows no parallel.  In the heart of all fighting men, she is enshrined forever." 
   General Douglas MacArthur, Dec 44

February 2, 2005, marks the 104th anniversary of the establishment of the Army Nurse Corps.  Since 1901, Army nurses have demonstrated again and again their total commitment to the highest standards of military nursing excellence.  Both men and women have served as Army nurses since 1775, but the Army Nurse Corps did not become a part of the Army Medical Department until 1901.  The distinguished contributions of female contract nurses during and following the 1898 Spanish-American War became the justification and demonstrated the need for a permanent female nurse corps.

The Army Nurse Corps has now cared for our Nation's service members for over 106 years as a major element of the Army Medical Department. We are devoted to providing exceptional nursing care and leadership for the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines who keep our Nation safe.

Over 9,000 Army Nurses serve in the Active Army, Army Reserve, or Army Reserve National Guard.

Please explore the website for more information about our exciting, progressive, leadership-oriented profession. For more specific information about service in the Army Nurse Corps, contact the Corps Chief's Office or  learn more from The Army Nurse Corps wbsite at: http://www.armynursecorps.amedd.army.mil/

Editors note: One source for part of this information was:  Army Nurse Corps Historical Collection documents summarized by MAJ Debora Cox, Past ANC Historian (1 August 2001. 

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