Frances Shea-Buckley

Frances Shea-Buckley

Infobox Military Person
name=Frances Shea-Buckley
birth= birth year and age|1929
died=
placeofbirth=Massachusetts
placeofdeath=


caption=
nickname=
allegiance= United States of America
branch= United States Navy
serviceyears= 1951-1954, 1960-1983
rank= Rear Admiral
commands=Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps, Naval Health Sciences Education and Training Command
unit=
battles= Vietnam War
awards=
laterwork=
portrayedby=
Retired Rear Admiral Frances Teresa Shea-Buckley was the Director of the Navy Nurse Corps from 1979 to 1983. cite book |last=Godson |first=Susan H. |title=Serving Proudly: A history of Women in the U.S. Navy |date=2001 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=1-55750-317-6 ] .

Early life

Frances Teresa Shea was born in 1929 in Massachusetts. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Joseph College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1950.

Navy Nurse Corps career

Shea joined the Navy Nurse Corps in 1951 and stayed in the Reserves when she left active duty in 1954. She earned a master of science degree in nursing service administration from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois in 1960, and returned to active duty.Billets of increasing responsibility included a stint as operating room supervisor in hospital ship USS Repose (AH-16) off of Vietnam in 1968.Shea became director of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1979, and became the first director to add additional concurrent billets to that duty, including commanding officer of Naval Health Sciences Education and Training Command, and deputy commander for Personnel Mangement, Naval Medical Command.

ee also

References

Further reading

*cite book |last=Sterner |first=Doris M. |title=In and Out of Harm's Way: A history of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps |date=1997 |publisher=Peanut Butter Publishing |location=Seattle, WA |isbn=0897167066
*cite book |last=Godson |first=Susan H. |title=Serving Proudly: A history of Women in the U.S. Navy |date=2001 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=1-55750-317-6

External links

* [http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/prs-tpic/nurses/nurses.htm Nurses and the U.S. Navy -- Overview and Special Image Selection] Naval Historical Center


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