Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Nurse Aid At The Spanish Civil War

I am a recent baccalaureate graduate of Charleston Southern University. I received my Bachelor of Science in Nursing in May of 2015. On June 20, 2015, I received my NCLEX-RN results and became a registered nurse in the state of South Carolina. After considering my options for a graduate program, I happily accepted my offer from Case Western Reserve University and moved to Cleveland to pursue my graduate studies. Over the course of my undergraduate career, theories were included in the curriculum but not in depth. It is for this reason that I am excited to partake in this course – to learn the foundational and applicable theories of the nursing profession.

Dear diary today is my first day as a nurse in Vietnam, I have to say that it not what I had expected. First off I expected to be in a big hospital building, with good equipment to work with. However I did not expect to work in small tents. There is very little room, and hard to move around with so many people. There are so many soldiers who are wounded, and can barely move. I have to say that this job is exhausting because more soldiers keep coming, some of the men

Over 5000 volunteer nurses’ north and south served in military hospitals during the Civil War. Nurses were of all sorts and came from all over. Women wanted to be involved in this national struggle in any way they could. They did not want to stay home and play their traditional domestic roles that social convention and minimal career opportunities had confined the majority of their sex to. Many women thought of nursing as an extension of their home duties, almost like taking care of “their boys.” They recall the Civil War as a time when their work as nurses made a difference. It gave them an opportunity to prove they had the ability and courage to help.

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

Where do you think the nursing profession came from? There were so many important voices and changes since the Civil War that had a major influence towards the nursing profession. Some things are the same but at the same time many things are different. For example, in the Civil War, if a soldier had a hurt leg or arm the doctors would just amputate it right away. Today doctors do many exams before they do something that serious. Since the Civil War, nursing has changed for the better due to the increase in education programs, the respect for a nurse 's role, and compensation.

In the hospital patient and the health professional that patients have a certain specific right and must be treated as a person with dignity. They are neither mere objects to be manipulated by a professional nor subservient individual who has waived their right simple by becoming hospital patient. In Confucius ' teachings, ritual encompassed both moral practices, respect and traditional values. Confucius taught that there were mutual obligations arising between members of social relationships, for example, as between Husband and Wife, Parents and Children, Older Brother and Younger Brother, and so on. From the reads, Lisa’s articles and confess it seems both theories describes the values and morals and the relationship of humanity. However, in the article in defense of the traditional nurse, writing by Lisa H. Newton, she shows that nurse should be fully traditional become a nurturing synthetic mother of the patient.

In “Letters of a Civil War Nurse”, written in 1863, Cornelia Hancock’s account of the Civil War gives readers an account of the suffering and hardship of soldiers through the point of view of an Union nurse. This document written by Cornelia Hancock is an account as a nurse who went through the Battle of Gettysburg and the after effects. Through a series of letters written to her loved ones, Cornelia wrote what nurses went through during the times of war. At the time women were expected to be good wives; with Cornelia Hancock’s effort she was able to help soldiers and contribute to the idea that women are capable of much more than being good wives; women can be apart of war. With her background as a Quaker and her family history, Cornelia Hancock was able to contribute greatly to the war effort even though she was originally denied to becoming an union nurse.

The Vietnam War was the longest war ever fought by U.S. military forces. U.S. personnel were engaged from 1961 until 1973. Approximately 10,000 U.S. military women served in Vietnam during the war. Most were members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps. All of the Army nurses were volunteers who attended a six-week basic training class, and then were assigned to one-year stunts in Vietnam hospitals and mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) units. Most of these nurses were fresh out of nursing school, some with less than six months of clinical experience. These nurses were not prepared for the physical and emotional wounds that they would have to heal.

During the American Civil War, many women volunteered to become nurses who eventually impacted the lives of others. Before the Civil War era, the nursing profession consisted of only men, however that changed once the war began and led many woman to converge to join. As men were fighting a bloody war, women were fighting their own battles to prove that they can be strong just like men. Their situation required them to have real strength and stamina, in which they proved to the men they had. Some nurses even risked their lives to go out on the fields to aid soldiers or even pass off as soldiers. Women such as Clara Barton and Dorthea Dix provided care for those soldiers and became one of the most influential nurses in the American Civil War because of their work and

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

Is a woman naturally weaker than a man? Medical research has shown that physically women are weaker than men in terms of muscles, blood level, and brain size. But socially women were made weaker by male dominated society. Women were bounded between two walls of the home. They were limited in domestic work like cooking, taking care of children, cleaning house, and washing clothes. War brought political, social, and economic change in women. Women played a role of back supporter for men during the war. Women started handling the agriculture, running commercial activities and other jobs that were used to be carried out by men before. Not only that woman helped men in making the weapons for war, providing the raw material

Nurses looked forward to going home. Their complicated feelings, such as fatigue, vulnerability, pride, and ambivalence, were aroused during the last three months of their tours in Vietnam [10]. Hence, The Vietnam War shaped nurses by leaving them emotional and physical weariness.

This piece contains an interview conducted via Facebook messenger to Evelyn Leon. She is a current Cuban nurse. She had a very limited Internet access, but the most important information has been collected. This paper contains her scope of practice, primary health concern for patients and country, professional organizations, salary, specialty, and health care division.

This study had a clearly defined purpose. Overall, the purpose of the study, as described by the research problem, was to describe the emotional hardships that were experienced by female military nurses during their service in the Vietnam War. It also focused on describing the key personal strategies adopted by these nurses to cope with the hardships in the war zone environment, and the post-war period.

I would like to write about Walt Whitman and nurses during the civil war. I think it would be interesting to learn more about the history of nursing. Also, it would be interesting to know more about the influence that woman had in the medical field. I would like to know more about Clara Barton and Dorothea