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

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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.

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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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INDOCTRINATION: Lieut. Comdr. Rice lectures new student company. CORPS SCHOOL ORGANIZATION Organizationally the school consists of a commanding offi- cer's office, which includes the executive and administrative officers and command secretary, and the four major opera- tive divisions, each under the management of an experienced officer assigned by the executive officer within the authorized personnel allowances. PERSONNEL-RECORDS DIVISION Personnel-Records Division is responsible, under the direc- tion of an Ensign, Medical Service Corps, with the title, Chief, Personnel-Records Division, and general supervision of the administrative office, for the proper and efficient custody, inspection and processing of staff and student per- sonnel records, and for the preparation and transmittal of pertinent reports and correspondence. The chief of the division also performs those collateral duties normally inherent in the personnel officer's billet, such as staff division officer, insurance officer, savings bonds and civil readjustment. The Administrative Officer, a lieutenant commander med- ical service corps, is the direct representative of the execu- tive officer and succeeds to that office during the executive officer's temporary absence, he is responsible to the execu- tive officer for the coordination and efficient operation of the command, for security, control and distribution of official mail, custody of master and central files, he is classification control officer and custodian of classified matter. ln addition to his major assignment as administrative offi- cer for the command this officer performs such collateral duties as public information, legal assistance, historical, and senior watch officer, he is also president of a special court martial serving both the naval hospital and corps school. He maintains active liaison with the several departments of the naval hospital upon which the school depends for logistical support. PERSONNEL RECORDS: Shirley M. Melton, Irene K. Jordan, Robert L Brice, HMC, Robert A. Mullen, HM1, J. W. Harrington, HMC, Arthur H. Schrader, HMC, Victor C. Giuliani, CMSW-3.