Jacket
notes: label: Description
content: Uniform jacket worn by Faye Glenn Abdellah (1919-2017), the first nurse, and the first woman, to serve as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States.
label: Description
content: In 1871, John Maynard Woodworth was created supervising surgeon (later renamed Surgeon General) of what would become the United States Public Health Service. Woodworth created the Co mmissioned Corps, an elite and highly mobile force of medical professionals who could be moved around the country to deal with disease outbreaks. Members of the Commissioned Corps wore uniforms to make them easily identifiable and to reflect their rank or position within the organization.
label: Description
content: This is the uniform jacket of Deputy Surgeon General and Rear Admiral Faye Abdellah (1919-2017) of the Public Health Service (PHS). Abdellah was a nurse who spent forty years in the PHS. In that position, she helped create the National Institute of Nursing Research at the NIH, and was the founder and first dean of the Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS).
label: Description
content: Service Dress Blue uniforms such as this one are typically worn every day but they can also be worn on more formal occasions. The Public Health Service uniform was originally modeled on a naval uniform.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rear Adm. Faye G. Abdellah, R.N., Ed.D., Sc.D., FAAN, USPHS (Ret.)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0453.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0453
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0453.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Uniform, Jacket