America 's Involvement Of The National Nursing Council For War

One aspect of nursing that has changed since the early 1800’s is nursing education. There was no question about the credibility of the women providing care to soldiers after the war. For many years untrained nurses and consequently nursing students cared the sick without any supervision. In 1873, the need for educated nurses was sought but was opposed by untrained physicians who thought trained nurses would pose a threat to their jobs (Gary & Hott, 1988). “Nurses have evolved

From 1861 to 1865, “between 2,000 to 5,000 women” volunteered to serve as nurses in military hospitals during the Civil War. Nurses from all over came to lend a hand during this devastating time. Clara Barton, Annie Etheridge, Dorothea Dix, Susie King Taylor, and Helen Gilson were just a few of the many nurses who volunteer their services to the war effort. Women wanted to be involved and help out as much as they could. Most women did not want to be at home - doing their traditional domestic work. Many women thought that helping out during the Civil War as nurses was an addition to doing their home duties. Women also believed that working as a nurse helping soldiers during the war would make a difference in how people viewed them. Being a

Nurses were very key in the war especially in World War Two. The numbers and the role of the nurses during World War Two became more important than ever. At the beginning of the war there was a large shortage of nurses to help with less than seven thousand volunteering. More women began to join, but not just anyone could serve. The women had to meet certain standards. To serve a woman had to be a citizen of the U.S, a registered nurse, and between the ages of 21 and 40. She also had to be checkout by the military to make sure she was healthy enough. She also couldn’t have children that were under the age of 14. During other wars women didn’t have any training, but this changed when 1943 rolled around. From that point nurses had to go through training on sanitation, psychiatry, and even physical training to make sure they could survive the tough conditions. Nurses also had to put up medical facilities if they needed to. Women had to go through all of this training because, they began to work closer to the front lines than they had ever had to before. The nurses were so close to fighting that they had to be able to come up with solutions fast and make decisions that could save or take a life. Nurses also had to learn how to use guns in case the time arose that they needed them. During the war some of the nurses wanted to go farther than just being a field nurse, so they would go to extra training to become flight nurses. Because nurses were so close to the front lines, and they had extra training, they were better able to serve their country and their soldiers when they need help (“Nursing and Medicine During World War

The nurses experienced so much trauma in such a little time, that most suffered from PTSD. The experiences that brought on this PTSD was the shock of conflict in Vietnam, the problematic return to a country that did not understand their participation or experiences, the denial of their work in Vietnam, and a sense of isolation from their male counterparts in Nam and their female counterparts back home as well as absence of veterans service groups upon returning to home. The nurses were not recognized for the job that they had done, which allowed many soldiers to return home to their families.

Although Roosevelt was a great United States President, there is the matter of how exactly the United States entered World War II. There is no debate that Roosevelt thought that the United States should enter World War II. He knew that fascism was wrong and that the Axis Powers, led ultimately by Adolph Hitler of Germany, had to be defeated to protect democracy. Also, Roosevelt knew a war would boost the United State’s economy severely. Generally, in war time there is many more jobs, which decreases unemployment tremendously. However, the majority of the citizens of the United States wanted to take an isolated approach from the rest of the world as far as foreign affairs are concerned. As much as 85% of the public opposed entering the war.4 The United States did not want to enter into another world war, such as World War I, that costs so many lives and money. When World War II broke out in 1939 with Germany’s invasion of Poland, Roosevelt called Congress to revise the Neutrality Act in an attempt to enter the war. His attempt failed. Knowing the public would not agree to enter World War II, Roosevelt took several measures to make sure that

The nurse explored in this essay is registered nurse, midwife and child health care nurse Ellen Savage. Savage joined the Australian Army Nursing Service in early 1941, here she served in the Australian General Hospital in Concord, Sydney (Gendek, 2007; Prior, 2013). March of 1942, Savage was posted to board the Australian Hospital ship the Centaur where she would collect injured service men from Papua New Guinea (Daly, Speedy & Jackson, n.d.; Gendek, 2007). Early morning of the 14th of May the Centaur was hit by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine causing the ship to sink in under three minutes (Gendek, 2007; Prior, 2013). Ellen was the only nurse to survive the attack, however she did obtain severe injuries of her own including fractured ribs, fractured nose and palate, perforated eardrums and multiple bruising including a badly bruised eye (Daly, Speedy & Jackson, n.d.; Gendek,

On March 15, 1965, large shipments of troops arrived in South Vietnam. These troops occupied the country until 1973. During this time, many men fought and died for the United States of America. The numerous nurses that operated on thousands of soldiers are often forgotten. The soldiers that the nurses operated on were usually blown apart and crippled for life. The nurses worked diligently to save these men. Even by working hard to save these men they were not recognized as army personnel by the public. The Vietnamese citizens and even the male American soldiers looked down upon the nurses. The United States did not acknowledge the nurses that served in the Vietnam War until 1993. The nurses

Nursing during the Civil War vs. Nursing during war time now! Over the years, nursing during war times has changed dramatically. Nurses during the civil war were volunteer nurses. In 1861, there was no organized medical corps or field hospital services.

World War 1 had changed so many women’s lives for the better, which includes women showing society that they were able to do men’s work and were intellectually more capable. However, most women were forced out of their jobs (Adie, 2018). Industries had closed and returning servicemen went back to their normal jobs which dismissed women from the jobs they took over. Women were encouraged to go back to their homes as mothers and wives, into “traditional” working roles (Anitha S. , 2004). The nurses of WW1 did not receive any kind of recognition compared to the men who fought nor the same post-service as the soldiers had received.

The Crimean War in 1850’s was the first war were women had a role as nurses, but World War One pushed the movement fast because of the extra people needed to support the men in action. With the amount wounded and lack of people to support the wounded women were able to enter the medical field. Becoming nurses was the closes thing women had to being a part of the battlefield. A letter from a nurse to her mother stated “The awful war we have all been dreading is upon us” (Warner 9). Women still had to endure what the men were enduring in the field by viewing the deaths of people by the thousands.

Many nurses stations and hospitals were attacked by opposing sides and younger nurses were terrified and could not continue nursing for the soldiers, other nurses in this situation were injured, many recovered but there are some accounts of nurses living after the war with breathing issues and limbs missing from attacks. Nurses also lived with shellshock after the war. Most of the cases were nurses not being able to sleep as they would still be able to hear gunshots and soldiers screaming for help and dreaming about excruciating injuries

The time period or event in our history that I feel has had the most significant impact on the nursing care of patients today is the U. S Civil War. During this era, it is where nursing care has improved. Nurses did not just take care of the patients or the wounded soldiers, but also this was the start of advocating prevention of diseases through using immunizations. Until now, we still perform vaccinations and can obtain it from different places such as the community health center, clinics, schools and much more. Furthermore, this was the time where nurses had finally been recognized as a major contribution to the successful recovery of patients. Today, being a nurse does not limit itself to taking care of patients, but are now faced with

Preceding America’s involvement in World War II, Roosevelt idealized a policy of neutrality; however, as Axis’ threats and attacks increased, Roosevelt had to move away from neutrality and get involved. Slowly but surely, Roosevelt enveloped America in war efforts. In September of 1939, Roosevelt began to make revisions to the country’s neutrality acts and allowed Britain and France to purchase American weaponry on a “cash-and-carry” basis.

America continued to grow stronger and become financially stable. The surge of stability and strength led to many jobs in nursing. By 1940, the government was providing funds to help create accredited nursing programs. Congress approved one million dollars towards creation of nursing programs. These new programs showed impressive success and the funds expanded to three million within two years. In 1943, the Nurse Training Act passed in legislation that led to the creation of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps (p. 47). This attracted many women to nursing because it provided 36 months of free education, student stipends, room and board, and a promising career. Figure A shows one of many famous advertising posters used to attract women to train for a nursing career. America continued to prosper; hospitals were working along side nursing programs and the government to bring a positive image to the nursing field. Nursing was on its way to finally being recognized as an imperative and honorable role in healing by women and men.

One of those men was called the knight hospitalers, which is where the word hospital originated. During the civil war, “Although we only hear about the predominantly female Union Volunteer nurses, the confederate army assigned 30 men in each regiment to take care for the injured. This could have been the start to the modern combat today” says Lucas. He continues to explain that military nursing was predominantly male until the turn of the century when female nursing schools organized their annual meeting in New York City and excluded men from nursing in the military. Hence forth only women were allowed to serve as nurses in the Army Nurse Corps, which was formed in 1901. Lucas proclaims that it was not until after the Korean War, that men began flowing back into the military’s nursing program.