US Naval Hospital Corps School - Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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Laboratory Technic, and Radiological Safety. All instructors are well-qualified graduates of the lnstructor's School, most of whom have had previous teaching experience. Instruction in the Principles and Technics of Patient Care is begun in the first week and continues throughout the six- teen week curriculum with a total of two hundred hours pro- vided in didactic instruction and practical experience. A nurse is assigned to each class and is assisted in demonstra- tions, supervision of student practice and administration of examinations by other nurse instructors. During the first fourteen weeks instruction is confined to the school but in the fifteenth and sixteenth weeks a total of six days clinical experience is provided at the naval hospital. To reinforce the learning experience of the student the nurse instructor for the class furnishes follow-up ward supervision. Lectures and lecture-demonstrations embrace the develop- ment and application of sound principles and associated skills necessary for giving competent care to the sick through learned techniques and procedures. Included are: introduc- tion to concepts of patient care team, admission, transfer and discharge of patients, baths and bedmakingg vital signs, charting, administration of medications, oxygen therapy, use of suction apparatusg diet in health and disease, selected diagnostic tests, including selected laboratory procedures, FLOYD ANGLIN, HN, USN, is awarded the Hugh E. Perkins Trophy for being the Hospital Corps School's outstanding student. Commander Crawford made the presentation while Mrs. and application of basic skills to the care and treatment of patients with specific diseases requiring special nursing care. To enable the student to develop manual dexterity and skill, supervised practice follows demonstration in bed mak- ing, bed baths, technic for taking temperatures, pulse, res- piration and blood pressure, administration of oral, sub- cutaneous and intramuscular injections, surgical aseptic technic and charting. Clinical facilities available for practice consist of one ward with forty bed units and a nursing supply room which is equipped with such items as dressing carriage, stretchers, oxygen tent, suction machines and demonstration trays set up for use in the teaching of nursing procedures, catheteriza- tion and bladder treatments. All nineteen nurse instructors hold baccalaureate degrees. In addition to the above officers, there are 5 male MSC officers, a chief medical service warrant, and 63 enlisted men on the staff. On 9 September 1957, a class Cn Pharmacy School was established, with an enrollment of thirty-two hospital corps- men. Designed to train them in sciences necessary to qualify them as pharmacy technicians, the 38 week curriculum in- cludes Principles of Pharmacy, Operative and Dispensing KU' CHIEF PETTY OFFICER Erh-wu HSU, Chinese Navy, being welcomed aboard the School by Commander Crawford. Looking on - via their photos on bulkhead-are U. S. Navy's Surgeon General Admiral Hogan, and China's Navy Sur- geon Admiral T. S. Yu. Perkins looks on. The trophy honors the name of Chief Perkins, USN, Corps School instructor, who died last January.

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Mission and History of the U. S. Naval Hospital Corps School The primary mission of the Hospital Corps School is to train selected men in the basic duties of the Hospital Corps. The present Hospital Corps School was established at the U. S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, California, on 1 September 1928 and operated until April 1935, when it was placed in an inactive status. ln April, 1935, the school was re-activated and has been the only Hospital Corps School in continuous operation since that time. On December 7, 1941, the school was located in Building 119 on the hospital reservation. It had a student body of 327, and the staff consisted of six male officers, four nurse corps officers, and seventeen enlisted men. In January, 1942, the school was moved to Buildings 211 and 219 in the hospital annex of Balboa Park. During 1942, the average number of students was increased to 616 and 6,476 hospital corpsmen were graduated that year. In 1943, the average number of students increased to 1,3003 9,544 were received and 8,918 graduated. The year 1944 brought many changes to the school. To meet the needs of a rapidly growing organization, the school was again moved to Unit No. 3 of the hospital, which was well suited to the needs of an expanding school, consisting of 33 acres of park land in Balboa Park. Five former exposi- tion buildings were utilized to house administrative offices and berth a majority of the personnel. One tent section was retained to house approximately one thousand men. Five ad- ditional buildings, built while this area was occupied, were utilized as heads, showers, commissary, and mess-halls. Thirty-two temporary buildings were moved into the area and equipped as classrooms. During this year, a total of 10,245 students were received and 8,897 graduated. In July, 1944, the Hospital Corps School, Great Lakes, Illinois, was closed and 456 students were transferred here from that school command to complete their course of in- struction. 1n 1945, the school reached its peak enrollment, with an average of approximately 3,400 students on board. During this year, 13,332 students were enrolled and 14,907 were graduated. The staff at that time consisted of eighteen male officers, thirty Nurse Corps officers, 200 enlisted men, and 27 civilians. .. In 1946 the average strength dropped to approximately 600 due to demobilization. In J une, 1946, the school vacated its quarters in Balboa Park and moved to its present loca- tion on the hospital reservation. From 1 January 1947 to 1 July 1948, the average student strength dropped to 337, and the staff was reduced to six male officers, five nurses, eighteen enlisted men and five civilians. In February, 1949, enlisted women began reporting for instruction. They were trained under a co-educational plan until August, 1953, when all basic training of enlisted women was undertaken by the Hospital Corps School, Bainbridge, Maryland. A total of 678 enlisted women were graduated from here. Since moving to its present location in 1946, the Hospital Corps School, San Diego, has operated under four different training schedules: an 8 week schedule consisting of 320 hours of instructiong a 12 week schedule consisting of 480 hours, a 16 week schedule encompassing 640 hours of in- struction, and a 20 week schedule with 760 hours of in- struction. At present, the school operates under two schedules, a 16 week course for volunteers, and a 12 week course for reserv- ists. There is also a 2 week accelerated course for inactive reservists performing annual training duty. There are presently 8 classes under instruction, classes ranging from 45 to 80 students each. Among the students there are members of friendly foreign services undergoing instruction. At present, there is a Chief Hospital Corpsman from the Chinese Navy, and also a Mexican physician. ln the past, the school has graduated members of the Korean Navy, Colombian Navy and Peruvian Navy. During the past year, an average of 1,260 students gradu- ated. They were transferred to naval hospitals, station hos- pitals, and large dispensaries, for additional practical train- ing before going to sea or to duty with the Fleet Marine Force. The subjects taught are Anatomy and Physiology, Minor Surgery and First Aid, Preventive Medicine, Principles and Technics of Patient Care, Materia Medica and Toxicology, Pharmacy and Metrology, Basic Bacteriology and Elementary

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Pharmacy, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical mathematics and par- enteral preparations. The quota for the second class which convenes on 30 June 1958 was established at 35 and there is a strong indication that future classes will be expanded to sixty. In March, 1958, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery au- thorized the establishment of a class Bw Advanced Hospital Corps School, the first class of fifty students to convene in September, 1958, with an additional fifty students every three months. The purpose of this six month course is to give additional training to senior hospital corpsmen, qualify- ing them for duty independent of a medical officer. The Commanding Officer of the Naval Hospital is also Commanding Officer of the Hospital Corps School. HOSPITAL CORPS SCHOOL EXECUTIVE OFFICERS COMDR. DANIEL HUNT, MC, USN July 1928 to Dec, 12 1930 COMDR. C. B. CAMERER, MC, USN Jan, 1931 to June 1931 COMDR. FRANK HAIGLER, MC, USN July 1931 to July 1933 COMDR. VV. A. VOGELSANC, MC, USN April 1935 to May 1937 COMDR. I. H. CHAMBERS, MC, USN June 1937 to June 1938 COMDR. W. J. C. ACNEW, MC, USN .luly 1938 COMDR. E. C. CARR, MC, USN Aug 1938 to Aug 1939 COMDR. L. H. RODDIS, MC, USN Sept 1939 to Aug 1940 COMDR. HARVEY MILLER, MC, USN Aug 1940 to May 1941 COMDR. I. JACOBS, MC, USN May 1941 to March 1942 CAPTAIN C. M. GEORGE, MC, USN March 194-2 to June 1943 COMDR. H. W. PATTON, MC, USN June 1943 to Sept 1943 CAPTAIN c. W. LANE, MC, USNR oct 1943to Aug 1950 COMDR. F. O. HUNTSINCER, MSC, USN Aug 1950 to June 1953 CAPTAIN R. L. TAYLOR, MSC, USN ,Iune 1953 to Nov 1957 COMDR. C. L. CRAWFORD, MSC, USN Nov 1957+- Captain W. C. Calkins, MSC, USN, Chief, Medical Service Corps, Commander Crawford, inspect Corps School personnel.