TCRM - Using risk management concepts when time and resources are limited.
Situational Awareness - The degree of accuracy by which one's perception of the current environment
mirrors reality.
Green Risk - Little chance of serious error.
Yellow Risk - Higher chance of serious error.
Red Risk - Very high chance of serious error.
Swooshing Arrow - Return to good situational awareness.
Balance Resources - Make the risk decisions to mitigate risks.
Red Block - Policies, procedures, and routines.
Green Block - Checklist (instructions)
Aqua Block - Automation (fire alarm, lights, alarm clocks)
Gray Block - Knowledge, skill, and attitude (training, practice, drills)
Yellow Block - Briefings and external resources (supervisor, shipmate, Chaplin)
Caduceus - an insignia used by the medical profession (hospital corps)
,Sickbay - Where sick and injured men were taken for care.
Cockpit - Another name for sickbay
Surgeon Steward - From 1820-1865, first enlisted rate requiring specific qualification. First seen in Navy
pay charts in 1841 and ranked second in seniority among shipboard petty officers.
Nurse - From 1861-1873, applied to junior enlisted medical personnel. Served concurrently with Surgeon
Steward.
Medal of Honor - The highest U.S. military decoration, awarded for gallantry and intrepidity.
Distinguished Service Cross - Second highest military decoration awarded to a member of the US Army
for extraordinary heroism.
Distinguished Service Medal - Awarded to individuals in the Navy or Marine Corps for exceptionally
meritorious service.
Silver Star - Third highest military combat decoration awarded for gallantry in action.
Bronze Star - Awarded for heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving aerial flight, while
engaged with an enemy in an armed conflict.
Article 16 - First direction given to Navy medicine in 1775.
Convenient place set apart for sick and injured men.
Ship's Surgeon - Trained physician.
Surgeon's Mate - Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon.
, March 2, 1799 - Congress mandated all newly commissioned warships to contain a cockpit for treatment
of the sick and injured. This unofficially reestablished a need for enlisted medical personnel with no
official title or job description.
Loblolly Boys - Became official rate in 1814.
Loblolly Boys Served - Quasi-War with France and first Barbary War
Loblolly Boys of Distinction - John Wall (first Loblolly boy)
John Domyn (first Loblolly POW)
Joseph Anderson (first African American Loblolly boy)
Baymen - From early 1870s to 1898, replaced the title of nurse for junior medical enlisted personnel,
defined as "one who manned the sick bay" in 1873 navy regulations.
Apothecary - From 1866-1898, meaning to put away in Greek. Term for pharmacist.
June 17, 1898 - Birthday of the Hospital Corps. Established the rates of hospital Steward, hospital
apprentice first class (third class petty officer), and hospital apprentice. Sec of the Navy appointed 25
senior apothecaries as pharmacists.
Cornelius O'Leary - Had 38 years of apothecary experience at the time of his appointment.
Robert Stanley - First Corpsman to receive the Medal of Honor.
WAVES - Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service in the Navy. Commissioned at US Navy
Hospital in Bethesda, MD.
November 11, 1940 - Bethesda National Hospital became flagship of Navy Medicine.
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