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Honoring the Practice of Nursing is the Focus of National Nurses Week
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 essential contributions to the DHA mission of improving health and building readiness.
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Soldiers in their third trimester perform stretches outlined by the Pregnancy Postpartum Physical Training program at Fort Hood, Texas. Physical fitness is especially important during pregnancy for the health of both mother and baby. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brandon Banzhaf)
Undersecretary of Defense Brad Carson (left) addresses the attendees at the Warrior Care in the 21st Century symposium at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. Attendees included senior military and civilian representatives from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom for focused discussions on the topics of readiness, recovery and rehabilitation, and reintegration and post-military support. (Courtesy photo)
Army Staff Sgt. Nicu Tirnoveanu (left) and Army Staff Sgt. Douglas Clemence (right), both from Medical Support Unit-Europe, 7th Civil Support Command conduct triage on "patients" with simulated injuries during NATO consequence management exercise Ukraine 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Chlosta)
Navy Counselor 1st Class Timothy Hawkins serves ice cream to Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Shonna Cunningham aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Julia A. Casper)
The Orrb at NICoE’s Brain Fitness Center measures a patient’s heartrate variability.
A surgical team aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort performs surgery on a patient during Continuing Promise 2015. The Navy is looking into the viability of conducting successful select surgeries during high seas on alternative platforms, such as littoral combat ships or high speed vessels.
Army Major General Jeffrey B. Clark, director of the Health Operations Directorate at the Defense Health Agency, addresses military health leaders from over 13 nations at the October 2015 event
Military health leaders from New Zealand, Denmark and Estonia participate in a panel discussion
Art therapy masks on display at last year's Warrior Care in the 21st Century symposium demonstrate mechanisms to both expose and expunge service members' previously hidden wounds in a creative, non-threatening manner
Air Force Staff Sgt. Matthew Gray, a 59th Medical Wing Emergency Medical Services paramedic, performs an operations check on the Perfuser Space Infusion Pump System, at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
Former acting undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, Mr. Brad Carson, addresses the audience at the 2015 Warrior Care in the 21st Century symposium
The "Behind these eyes, we all have a story" painting on display at the 2015 Warrior Care in the 21st Century symposium demonstrates that art therapy is an effective outlet for service members to express emotions inflicted by their invisible wounds
British Army Pvt. John Hayes' display of poppies was inspired by his service in Operation Iraqi Freedom, his diagnosis of PTSD and his experience with the U.K.'s Combat Stress program. Hayes said he's found an escape in art, and it has played a major role in his life and rehabilitation
The National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) has established art therapy programs to help service members recover from invisible wounds
National flags representing the 13 countries who attended the 2015 Warrior Care in the 21st Century symposium were on display at last year's event in Bethesda, Maryland
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