Joan Hunter Barrett Fender is a former hospital corpsman at Naval Hospital Jacksonville hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.

Barrett attended Trinity High School, and then studied cosmetology at The Temple, a Paul Mitchell partner school.

Fender enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 2016 and was stationed at Naval Hospital Jacksonville since July 2017.

In September 2017, Barrett and another naval nurse, Allyson Jeanette Thompson, were removed from patient care after video and photos showing them inappropriately handling a newborn at Naval Hospital Jacksonville went viral on social media. ^[1]

Thompson is seen in the video first uploaded to Snapchat, forcing a newborn baby to dance to 50 Cent's song In da Club. “We’re going to hell,” Joanie Barrett is also heard saying filming the video. ^[1]

The hospital stated that both Barrett and Thompson will face legal action.

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