Nurses At The Front

Author : Suzanne Gordon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780801464997

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Life Support by Suzanne Gordon Pdf

In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston—a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unit. At a time when nursing is often undervalued and nurses themselves in short supply, Life Support provides a vivid, engaging, and intimate portrait of health care's largest profession and the important role it plays in patients' lives. Life Support is essential reading for working nurses, nursing students, and anyone considering a career in nursing as well as for physicians and health policy makers seeking a better understanding of what nurses do and why we need them. For the Cornell edition of this landmark work, Gordon has written a new introduction that describes the current nursing crisis and its impact on bedside nurses like those she profiled in the book.

Author : Margaret R. Higonnet
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Military nursing
ISBN : 1555534848

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Nurses at the Front by Margaret R. Higonnet Pdf

A eloquent pair of observers illuminate the role of women in wartime and add significantly to the literature on the Great War.

Author : Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN, FAAN,Arlene W. Keeling, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826105202

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Nurses on the Front Line by Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN, FAAN,Arlene W. Keeling, PhD Pdf

Nurses on the Front Line examines how nurses have responded to both natural and man-made disasters in the United States, Canada, and other nations over the course of the previous and current centuries. It documents 12 disasters, including the Galveston hurricane of 1900, the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, September 11th, and Hurricane Katrina. More than a simple narrative, this text provides intimate first-hand experiences-through letters, memoirs, oral histories, and newspaper articles-of health care workers, survivors, and civic and private organizations that reflect on the character and speed of responders during a disaster. It illustrates how nurses can restore stability in the aftermath of a chaotic event and analyzes the nurses' role as part of a community response. Key features: Explains in detail what nurses can expect during disasters and what measures to take when disaster strikes Examines previous natural disasters and calls into question whether disasters were caused by accidents or intentional/unintentional human error Discusses policy implications of the different disasters, focusing on the federal government's response Investigates the roles and effects of race, class, and gender during a disaster

Author : Judith Bellafaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UCR:31210023606856

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The Army Nurse Corps by Judith Bellafaire Pdf

Author : Olive Dent
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780753550755

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A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front by Olive Dent Pdf

Starring Oona Chaplin as a V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment), and Suranne Jones and Hermione Norris as trained nurses, The Crimson Field is a gripping drama set in a tented hospital on the coast of France, where plucky real-life V.A.D. Olive Dent served two years of the Great War, and kept this extraordinarily vivid diary of day-to-day life – ever cheerful through the bitter cold, the chilblains, hunger and exhaustion. Resilient, courageous and resourceful, nurses, doctors and patients alike do their best to support each other. A Christmas fancy-dress ball, a concert performed by a stoic orchestra covered in bandages, church services held in a marquee and letters from Blighty all keep spirits up in camp, as wounded soldiers suffer terribly with quiet dignity on the makeshift wards, and nurses rush round tirelessly to make them as comfortable as possible. With original illustrations throughout by fellow V.A.D.s, Olive’s memoir is a fascinating period piece, a rare first-hand account of this little-known story, which will resonate very strongly with viewers of The Crimson Field.

Author : Evelyn Monahan,Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307424785

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And If I Perish by Evelyn Monahan,Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee Pdf

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 : Barbra Mann Wall,Arlene W. Keeling, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826105196

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Nurses on the Front Line by Barbra Mann Wall,Arlene W. Keeling, PhD Pdf

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Author : Echo Heron
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804118217

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Tending Lives by Echo Heron Pdf

A critical-care nurse in coronary and emergency medicine for eighteen years, Echo Heron has seen and heard it all. Here she recounts narratives of real-life medical dramas experienced by nurses across the country, sharing with us the inspiring, the tragic, and the outrageously funny: a penitentiary nurse who wasresponsible for orchestrating a murderer's execution; a stroke victim who rose out of his depression when his nurses began telling him jokes; and, perhaps the most riveting testimony, moment-by-moment memories of several nurses who served in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Filled with both tears and laughter and charged with the issues that afflict nursing care today, TENDING LIVES is a gripping, moving, inspiring book, a fitting tribute to a noble profession.

Author : Mildred A. MacGregor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472033317

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World War II Front Line Nurse by Mildred A. MacGregor Pdf

The riveting personal account of a Michigan nurse's experiences in France, Germany, and Africa during the Second World War

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Accidents
ISBN : 1635850614

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Front Line of Defense by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cynthia Toman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774832168

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Sister Soldiers of the Great War by Cynthia Toman Pdf

In Sister Soldiers of the Great War, award-winning author Cynthia Toman recovers the long-lost history of Canada’s first women soldiers – nursing sisters who enlisted as officers with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The nursing sisters had a mandate to salvage as many sick and wounded men as possible for return to the front lines. Nothing prepared them, however, for the poor living conditions, the scale of the casualties, or the type of wounds they encountered. But their letters and diaries reveal that they were determined to soldier on under all circumstances while still “living as well as possible.”

Author : Jane E. Schultz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807864159

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Women at the Front by Jane E. Schultz Pdf

As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.

Author : Paul E. Stepansky
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476680019

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Easing Pain on the Western Front by Paul E. Stepansky Pdf

World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses' encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War.

Author : Ruth Cowen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857202246

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A Nurse at the Front by Ruth Cowen Pdf

This, the first in a series of four unique War Diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, will tell a story that is rarely heard: the experiences of a nurse working close to the Western Front in the First World War. Incredibly, Edith Appleton served in France for the whole of the conflict. Her bravery and dedication won her the Military OBE, the Royal Red Cross and the Belgian Queen Elizabeth medal among others. Her diary details with compassion all the horrors of the 'war to end wars', including the first use of poison gas and the terrible cost of battles such as Ypres, but she also records what life was like for nurses and how she spent her time off-duty. There are moments of humour amongst the tragedy, and even lyrical accounts of the natural beauty that still existed amidst all the destruction.

Author : Gerald W. L. Nicholson
Publisher : A.M. Hakkert
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015000805609

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Canada's Nursing Sisters by Gerald W. L. Nicholson Pdf