Vietnam War Nurses at the Ready

Seventeen Personal Accounts

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2023
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9097-1 (ISBN)

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This second volume of accounts by nurses who served with US forces in Vietnam presents recollections of 16 women who cared for American casualties during a controversial war. Representing all military branches, their experiences of struggle, friendship and love formed their professional and personal lives.

This second volume of accounts by nurses who served with U.S. forces in Vietnam presents recollections of 17 women who cared for American casualties. They faced overwhelming trauma, conflicting emotions and isolation while caring for wounded at frontline hospitals, aboard ships and in medical centers. Representing the army and navy, their experiences of struggle, friendship and love formed their professional and personal lives.

Patricia Rushton is a retired associate professor of nursing at Brigham Young University. She is a veteran of the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm and retired as a commander in the United States Navy Nurse Corps Reserve.

Table of Contents

Preface

Phyllis Barkus

Virginia R. Beeson

Carol Keith Brautigam

Gloria and John (Jack) Caffrey

Elaine J. Dlouhy

Ellen Komarek Duvall

Anne Kuhn Gartner

Susan Searle Jackson

Irma Klaetke

Helen Bergin Kranz

Susan Stuart Miller

Patricia J. O’Hare

Nancy J. Owen

Janet Page Price

Elizabeth Roach

Stella Ann Ross

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	18 photos, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
ISBN-10	1-4766-9097-9 / 1476690979
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-9097-1 / 9781476690971
Zustand	Neuware