Walter Reed kicked off National Nurses Week with its traditional Blessing of the Hands ceremony May 6 at the medical center. National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6 and ends May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Guest speaker for the ceremony, Army Col. Jodelle M. Schroeder, deputy corps chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (ANC), called Walter Reed a formative place in her career. She served as service chief of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and Enhanced Precautions Bio-Containment Unit at Walter Reed earlier in her career.
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