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Author | : Patricia Rushton |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786462248 |
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Since the pioneering work of nineteenth-century nurses such as Florence Nightingale, Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton, professional nurses have been involved in caring for the sick and wounded in combat situations. This book contains the accounts of 14 nurses who served in the U.S. military nurse corps during the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars. These men and women describe how they found themselves serving during wartime, the soldiers they cared for, the professionals they worked with and the impact they made in their patients' lives. These varied accounts attest to the tremendous impact this profession has on the lives of individual soldiers and the health of armies at large.
Author | : Denise Figueroa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Military nursing |
ISBN | : 9780533135271 |
Download The Most Qualified Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Most Qualified is the harrowing true story of the author's service hitch in Saudi Arabia, and of how she and her fellow Reservists - few of whom had had combat training - were able to care for 12,000 patients within a three-month period.
Author | : Jan Bassett |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Guns and Brooches Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Vivian Bullwinkle - Changi - Malaria - Dysentery - Typhoid - Betty Jeffrey - War injuries and illnesses.
Author | : Elizabeth Scannell-Desch, PhD, RN, OCNS |
Publisher | : Springer Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-04-23 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0826193846 |
Download Nurses in War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This unique volume presents the experience of 37 U.S. military nurses sent to the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of war to care for the injured and dying. The personal and professional challenges they faced, the difficulties they endured, the dangers they overcame, and the consequences they grappled with are vividly described from deployment to discharge. In mobile surgical field hospitals and fast-forward teams, detainee care centers, base and city hospitals, medevac aircraft, and aeromedical staging units, these nurses cared for their patients with compassion, acumen, and inventiveness. And when they returned home, they dealt with their experience as they could. The text is divided into thematic chapters on essential issues: how the nurses separated from their families and the uncertainties they faced in doing so; their response to horrific injuries that combatants, civilians and children suffered; working and living in Iraq and Afghanistan for extended periods; personal health issues; and what it meant to care for enemy insurgents and detainees. Also discussed is how the experience enhanced their clinical skills, why their adjustment to civilian life was so difficult, and how the war changed them as nurses, citizens, and people. Key Features: Describes verbatim the experiences of 37 nurses in two brutal, chaotic theaters of war Offers poignant encounters with patients Includes advice, clarity, and lessons learned about nursing in war Offers a women's health perspective on working and living in a war zone Demonstrates the dedication, expertise, and spirit of military nurses
Author | : Loretta Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-04 |
Genre | : Nurses |
ISBN | : 9781413465310 |
Download Yes I Can Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The true definition of the word "War" per various defining sources is: "A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties." And a true definition of the word "Nurse" per various defining sources is: "A person educated and trained to care for the sick or disabled." I chose to become a part of the second definition. My main being in life besides that of a family member is to help another human being to become well or to assist them to gain the ability to care for themselves doing their disabling times. Never would I have thought that my career would have taken me into the vials of pure hell! But, it did. Not after I became an adult in a world that sometimes seems unfair. Not after I became a member of my country's armed forces. But after I went to live up to my responsibilities as an Army Nurse to assist those in need; did such a saddening of events occur. Events that I sometimes would prefer to forget. Events that won't stay out of my memory. Events that were at times enjoyable and others not worth the seconds or minutes they took to become processed. This is my story; this is the person I am. This is the person I became. This is the person I shall remain to be "An Army Nurse" proud to have provided the best service I could have in disastrous times when your daily routine 24/7 was often to work while wearing gas masks. Or in strenuous times when the casualties from all sides would mount and you would find yourself working on persons from other countries, such as the enemies whose hygienic way of cleaning themselves was by using their hands instead of tissue. Or in less patient times when the anxiety of participation to get this war finally started and over with would put you in the role of confidant to your peers and them to you. This story welcomes you to find the inner strength to say regardless what comes along in life, you can say, "I can beat this obstacle." "Yes I Can!"
Author | : Evelyn Monahan |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307424782 |
Download And If I Perish Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy beaches, or worked around the clock in hospital tents on the Italian front as bombs fell all around them. For more than half a century these women’s experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of reasearch and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war. From the North African and Italian Campaigns to the Liberation of France and the Conquest of Germany, U.S. Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the frontlines with grit, humor, and great heroism. A long overdue work of history, And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy.
Author | : Elizabeth Norman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 081220297X |
Download Women at War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women—members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps—who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the experiences they had while they were there, and how war affected them physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Author | : Barbara Tomblin |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2003-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813170206 |
Download G.I. Nightingales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every theater of the war, serving in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the frozen reaches of Alaska and Iceland, the mud of Italy and northern Europe, or the heat and dust of the Middle East. Many of the women in the Army Nurse Corps served in dangerous hospitals near the front lines—201 nurses were killed by accident or enemy action, and another 1,600 won decorations for meritorious service. These nurses address the extreme difficulties of dealing with combat and its effects in World War II, and their stories are all the more valuable to women’s and military historians because they tell of the war from a very different viewpoint than that of male officers. Although they were unable to achieve full equality for American women in the military during World War II, army nurses did secure equal pay allowances and full military rank, and they proved beyond a doubt their ability and willingness to serve and maintain excellent standards of nursing care under difficult and often dangerous conditions.
Author | : Evelyn Monahan |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2011-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400095603 |
Download A Few Good Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories. Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and gathering thousands of eyewitness accounts, letters, and interviews for this unprecedented chronicle of America’s “few good women.” Women today make up more than fifteen percent of the U.S. armed forces and serve alongside men in almost every capacity. Here are the stories of the battles these women fought to march beside their brothers, their tales of courage and fortitude, of indignities endured, of injustices overcome, of the blood they’ve shed and the comrades they’ve lost, and the challenges they still face in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Cheryl Lynn Ruff |
Publisher | : Naval Inst Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781591147398 |
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Recounts the experiences of an American surgical nurse, near retirement age, serving with a military unit in Iraq in 2003, and discusses her background, reasons for serving, and transition to civilian life.