March 2009 HM2 Advancement Results:
Congratulations to all!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Hospital Corpsman Receives Silver Star
Camp Lejeune, N.C.-Sometimes you do what you know, and sometimes your training kicks in and you follow that and your instincts. When under attack in Afghanistan two years ago, the training and instincts of hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Joshua Simson kicked in, and he protected his patients and worked to defeat the enemy.
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Simson came under fire in July 27, 2007 in a village of Saret Kholet in Afghanistan. He was part of an embedded fire team that took fire, and he went in again and again to rescue different members wounded on the battle field. And at the times he was not directly providing medical attention, he was firing his weapon at the enemy.
Corpsman Simson is an example of the kinds of valor and bravery shown every day by our soldiers on the front lines. He doesn’t feel that he did anything special, just that which he was trained for and worked to do it well.
Interested in Hospital and Medical Training? Click here for the military programs available in each of the Armed Forces.
Simson came under fire in July 27, 2007 in a village of Saret Kholet in Afghanistan. He was part of an embedded fire team that took fire, and he went in again and again to rescue different members wounded on the battle field. And at the times he was not directly providing medical attention, he was firing his weapon at the enemy.
Corpsman Simson is an example of the kinds of valor and bravery shown every day by our soldiers on the front lines. He doesn’t feel that he did anything special, just that which he was trained for and worked to do it well.
PHARMACY TECHNICIAN
HM-8482. Pharmacy Technician. If you like people and want to be on the front lines assisting patients, join one of the most respected professions in Navy Medicine. Pharmacy Technicians are the direct link between health care providers and patients. The pharmacy technician’s job is not just filling prescriptions. You will learn and put into practice which medications treat which diseases, patient counseling and dispensing, medication substitutions, pharmaceutical calculations, compounding, intravenous admixtures, and pharmacy administration.
SRB: Zone A = 1.5 Zone B = 1.0
SRB: Zone A = 1.5 Zone B = 1.0
HOSPITAL CORPSMAN RANKING
HR -Hospitalman Recruit (E-1)
HA -Hospitalman Apprentice (E-2)
HN -Hospitalman (E-3)
HM3 -Hospital Corpsman Third Class (E-4)
HM2 -Hospital Corpsman Second Class (E-5)
HM1 -Hospital Corpsman First Class (E-6)
HMC -Chief Hospital Corpsman (E-7)
HMCS-Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman (E-8)
HMCM-Master Chief Hospital Corpsman (E-9)
HA -Hospitalman Apprentice (E-2)
HN -Hospitalman (E-3)
HM3 -Hospital Corpsman Third Class (E-4)
HM2 -Hospital Corpsman Second Class (E-5)
HM1 -Hospital Corpsman First Class (E-6)
HMC -Chief Hospital Corpsman (E-7)
HMCS-Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman (E-8)
HMCM-Master Chief Hospital Corpsman (E-9)
INDEPENDENT DUTY CORPSMAN
As an IDC, you'll serve as the Medical Department Representative (MDR) aboard surface ships, with units of the Fleet Marine Force (FMF), and at various duty stations around the globe, often times, independent of a medical officer. The IDC performs patient care and associated shipboard administrative and logistical duties. Diagnostic procedures, advanced first aid, basic life support, nursing procedures, minor surgery, basic clinical laboratory procedures, and other route and emergency health care is not beyond the IDCs scope of practice. Many duty station require the IDC to conduct and direct preventive medicine and industrial health surveillance programs. Also a teacher, the IDC provides education to junior medical and all nonmedical personnel. When assigned to shore duty, IDCs serve primarily as non-physician health care providers.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE TECHNICIAN
HM-8432 Preventive Medicine Technician - Assists Medical Department Officers in the performance of Preventive Medicine and Occupational Health Programs for Navy and Marine Corps forces ashore and afloat. Performs inspections and surveys of food and food service facilities, berthing spaces, barber and beauty shops, child care facilities, recreational facilities, swimming pools, potable water systems, solid waste and waste water disposal sites and systems, vehicles, and transport containers. Conducts bacteriological analysis of food, water, and ice samples. Conducts epidemiological investigations and reporting (Disease Alert Report), interviews and counsels sexually transmitted disease and other communicable disease patients and contacts, administers mass immunization programs and conducts nosocomial infection control programs. Applies statistical methods to human mortality, morbidity, and demographic studies. Conducts disease vector control programs. Is proficient in all aspects of field sanitation. Is proficient in medical and sanitary aspects of CBR defense. Under the supervision of occupational health professionals, assists in ensuring that work place environments are healthful, consistent with existing NAVOSH standards, through surveillance of the work place and medical surveillance of personnel exposed to work hazards. Instructs medical and nonmedical personnel in preventive medicine, industrial hygiene, environmental health and occupational health matters.
SRB - Zone A = 1.0, Zone B = 2.0, Zone C = 4.5
SRB - Zone A = 1.0, Zone B = 2.0, Zone C = 4.5
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