Vietnam War Nurses at the Ready: Seventeen Personal Accounts

by Patricia Rushton (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476690971
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	05/02/2023
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table 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

Editorial Reviews

People who read Vietnam War Nurses at the Ready: Seventeen Personal Accounts are in for a real eye-opener…collectively, the nurses’ spellbinding memories resemble a plot line for a sprawling novel…their stories about these adventures are equally as entertaining and enlightening as what they say about the Vietnam War.”—VVA Veteran

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