Frances Shea-Buckley
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Early life
Frances Teresa Shea was born on February 26, 1929, in Massachusetts. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Joseph College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1950.[1]
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.[1] Billets of increasing responsibility included a stint as operating room supervisor in hospital ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". off 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 Management, Naval Medical Command.[1]
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External links
- Nurses and the U.S. Navy -- Overview and Special Image Selection Naval Historical Center
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- 1929 births
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- American nursing administrators
- Female wartime nurses
- Military personnel from Massachusetts
- United States Navy personnel of the Vietnam War
- American female military personnel of the Vietnam War
- Female admirals of the United States Navy
- United States Navy rear admirals
- United States Navy Nurse Corps officers
- Vietnam War nurses