Navy Corpsmen Caught

[guest52816]

I came across this news item in two different media outlets, and pulled this blurb from the NY Post.

If you go to their Web Site, you can see the offending nurses doing the things mentioned in the story. They apparently aren't smart enough to realize that what you post on social media (with your face showing) can, and will be used against you.

Their behavior is deplorable. I can't imagine how the parents of babies subjected to these two and their outlandish and unethical behavior must feel.

Nurses at a naval hospital in Florida have been booted from their posts after sick photos went viral of them rudely posing with newborn babies and referring to the tots as mini Satans.”

One of the pics posted to Snapchat shows Allyson Thompson, a corpsman at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, flipping the bird to a baby who's wrapped in a blanket, along with the caption, How I currently feel about these mini Satans,” [COLOR=#cc3333]according to Action News Jacksonville[/COLOR].

In another photo, Thompson grins as she holds a baby up by its arms. The pic was shared by a woman who identified the employee as a navy nurse” who made the newborn dance to rap music, [COLOR=#cc3333]First Coast News reported[/COLOR].

Thompson and another nurse, Joanie Barrett, were identified as the culprits in [COLOR=#cc3333]an online post[/COLOR].

[AnnoyedNurse]

I have no idea. Is it not possible to be a Navy Corpsman AND a nurse? I hope somebody on this Site can answer the question.

A corpsman is an enlisted servicemember. A Nurse is a commission Officer in the service. It is possible for one to first enlist in the military as a corpsman or medic, and qualify for advanced education in nursing and be commissioned into the nursing corps as an Officer.

[sirI, MSN, APRN, NP]

Threads merged

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

In the 1990s I worked nine 8 hour shifts as registry in a Navy hospital critical care unit. I was required to have a BSN and CCRN.

I was given a temporary ID.

One night I notified the physician of a patient condition ans was told he would insert a Swan-Ganz catheter.

I told the excellent charge nurse that I wasn't familiar with the equipment and would need help setting up. She told me the corpsman would do the set up and calibration.

He was professional and competent.

Back in the 1970s I worked with many former corpsman who had been allowed to challenge LVN boards.

They had to adjust to the limitations of the LVN role. They had been on the battle field in Viet Nam where they had standardized procedures.

After stopping bleeding they gave IM morphine through the clothes of injured soldiers before getting them in a helicopter for transport to a hospital.

They started IVs for hypotension.

At the time I was an LVN in med-surg working with excellent RNs.