Navy Nurses
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have pictures of just about every
inch of ground in the gardens
there, and every fish in all the
pools. We’ll have to look at them
sometime. I wish I could go back.”
We asked what other particular
experience she might recall with
great interest? Miss Daughtry an
swered that she had been in the
San Diego Naval Hospital when
they started heart-lung surgery
about 3 years ago. “The doctors
there experimented for a long time
in a research lab before trying
this method on human beings. Then
when the techniques were per
fected we moved into a 12-operat
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ing-room building and scheduled
one operation a week. There was a
long waiting list and just before I
left we were doing two heart-lung
cases a week. It takes all day to
get all that equpiment set up, and
to clean up. They trained teams of
doctors, nurses and corpsmen to
use the heart-lung machine, so
that there is always one team
ready to go.
It’s a very wonderful thing and
makes surgery possible that could
not be done before, and saves many
lives.”
There are many opportunities
inherent in a Navy Nurse’s career.
We asked if the Navy trains its
own nurses and Miss Daughtry told
us that one requirement for join
ing is that you are already an RN.
“They do have programs for en
listed WAVES, in which they are
selected and sent to school, but in
this instance, as well as in all other
matters of training, they are sent
to civilian schools. If you want to
go on to post graduate work, it’s
possible. Not everyone gets it; you
have to have a good record, and
let the Navy know you want to go
to school. I was sent to Indiana
University to get my BS degree in
Nursing Education. One of our
nurses at this hospital is going to
Columbia University very soon, as
part of the Navy’s post graduate
program.
“One of the things the Navy does
now that it did not do when I first
came in, is to allow nurses to be
married. Many nurses are married
to Navy men and when their hus
bands are transferred, the Navy
calls it a hardship and transfers
the wife to the nearest Naval hos
pital facility. I’m looking for one
of those hardships. Except in what
is called isolated duty the tours
are usually about 3 years, but you
can often stay longer if you’re very
anxious to. Of course, when I was
on the Repose, we stayed around
Korea for 17 months, which was a
very long time for that kind of
duty, but circumstances were dif
ferent.
“I think any young girl who
plans to go into nursing should
at least consider the Navy. The
pay and retirement benefits are
excellent. Besides, if anyone has a
spirit of adventure, it’s a wonder
ful career.”
What might Miss Daughtry like
to do in her free time? “I like to
cook once in a while, lasagna, and
fancy breakfasts. I fix stringbeans
with a can of mushroom soup
mixed in with them, and some
green onions chopped fine, and
slivered almonds on top. And I
like to make a toddy with Trader
Vic’s Almond Syrup.”
We thanked CDR Edna Daughtry
for her conversation and thought
about the old song that begins,
‘There’s something about a soldier’
. . . There is certainly something
about a Navy Nurse. We have
never known one we did not like.
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Of Little League
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League Baseball association will be
held on Sunday afternoon, at 2
p. m., at the Chief Petty Officers
Club on the Naval Station.
Parents of Little Leaguers and
adults interested in participating
in the Little League program are
cordially invited to attend.
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A daughter, Karen Sue, weighing
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ment of the $8,265,000 owed by
Alaska’s Employment Security sys
tem to the Federal Employment
Security Reserve fund, has been in
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resentatives by Rep. Ralph J. Riv
ers (D-Alaska).
Under the existing law, govern
ing Reed Fund loans, from which
ESC money is borrowed, the pay
ments on the Alaska indebtedness
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