Vietnam War Nurses at the Ready - Seventeen Personal Accounts

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Patricia Rushton (Editor), Rushton Patricia (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2023
• EAN: 9781476690971
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-9097-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 331 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vietnam, Nursing, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, c 1955 to c 1975 (Vietnam War period), Vietnam War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War