Army Nurse Corps Research Articles

Good practice in end of life care.

Amanda Cheesley qualified as a nurse in 1981 after training with Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps. She served in the first Gulf War and has also worked for the NHS as a district nurse and a Marie Curie nurse.

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Charissa J. Threat,Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps

Charissa J. Threat,<i>Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps</i>

Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps

Journal Article Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps Get access By Charissa J. Threat. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xii, 198 pp. Cloth, $85.00. Paper, $25.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 209–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw080 Published: 01 June 2016

Nursing civil rights: gender and race in the Army Nurse Corps

Nursing civil rights: gender and race in the Army Nurse Corps

Charissa J. Threat.Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps

Charissa J. Threat.<i>Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps</i>

Charissa J. Threat.Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps.

Charissa J. Threat.<i>Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps</i>.

Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps by Charissa J. Threat

Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps by Charissa J. Threat

Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps by Charissa J. Threat

Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps by Charissa J. Threat

Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps by Charissa J. Threat

Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps by Charissa J. Threat

Keeping ‘super’ students in the midwifery profession: Addressing bullying in the workplace

Introduction: Leadership in midwifery may seem like the least important thing for students focused on learning midwifery clinical skills. However, most midwives are ‘leaders’ by the very nature of their profession. Learning how to be an effective leader will serve the individual midwife professionally, but is also critical in moving the profession forward in the future. Methods: This interactive session will explore what it means to be a leader and will have students identify areas they believe are crucial for midwifery leaders to address in the future. I will draw from my leadership experiences as a Colonel in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, past President of the American College of NurseMidwives, and as Executive Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Nursing. I will use narratives that capture how leadership began early in my career – whether I wanted it or not. Results: Leadership requires accountability for recognising health care gaps and gathering resources to address them. It is not someone else’s job – it is ours! Gaining skills in leadership is not that difficult, but requires persistence and tenacity, and a good dose of humility. Conclusion: As students consider their futuremidwifery careers, they will add to the equation how they will use their own leadership abilities to make a difference for women and their families.

Leading midwifery? – But I’m just a student!

Introduction: Leadership in midwifery may seem like the least important thing for students focused on learning midwifery clinical skills. However, most midwives are ‘leaders’ by the very nature of their profession. Learning how to be an effective leader will serve the individual midwife professionally, but is also critical in moving the profession forward in the future. Methods: This interactive session will explore what it means to be a leader and will have students identify areas they believe are crucial for midwifery leaders to address in the future. I will draw from my leadership experiences as a Colonel in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, past President of the American College of NurseMidwives, and as Executive Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Nursing. I will use narratives that capture how leadership began early in my career – whether I wanted it or not. Results: Leadership requires accountability for recognising health care gaps and gathering resources to address them. It is not someone else’s job – it is ours! Gaining skills in leadership is not that difficult, but requires persistence and tenacity, and a good dose of humility. Conclusion: As students consider their futuremidwifery careers, they will add to the equation how they will use their own leadership abilities to make a difference for women and their families.

"American angels of mercy" and the Russo-Japanese War.

The Russo-Japanese War was a clash between two expanding empires. In some ways, it was a very 20th century war, with large armies using automatic weapons; in other ways, it reflected the values of the 19th century, with Russian citizens donating money to the Japanese Red Cross in appreciation for the care of their soldiers. It was onto this battlefield that Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee brought an American mission to observe military medical practices of the conflict. McGee received her medical degree from Columbian College (now The George Washington University) in 1892 and at the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, McGee organized volunteer nurses for the Daughters of the American Revolution. McGee’s organizing ability led to her appointment as the only woman Acting Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army, in charge of the Army’s nurses. After this brief war ended, McGee pursued the establishment of a permanent nurse corps, and is known now as the founder of the Army Nurse Corps. With the threat of war between Russia and Japan looming, McGee led a group of nine volunteer nurses to Japan in 1904. She returned the following year as an official U.S. Army observer and later lectured and wrote on her experiences in the war.

Book Notes

Book Notes Robert Murray The Civil War and American Art. By Eleanor Jones Harvey. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. 316. $65.00 cloth). The American Civil War dramatically changed American art. In this beautifully illustrated work, Eleanor Harvey surveys American art immediately before, during, and after the war to trace and highlight these evolutions. The introduction of photography and the grim toll of the battlefield led American artists to shift their emphasis away from grandiose exultations of heroes to focus on the daily lives of the people—soldiers, slaves, families—most affected by this devastating conflict. Harvey’s text is enriched by the voices of the era as she demonstrates how the premier American artists of the period struggled to make sense and portray the effects of war. Wet Britches and Muddy Boots: A History of Travel in Victorian America. By John H. White Jr. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. 512. $55.00 cloth; $45.99 e-book) The author of thirteen books, John H. White Jr. was a curator of transportation at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution for over thirty years. Needless to say, he is in his element in this history of travel in the United States during the latter half of the nineteenth century. White seems determined to address the entirety of mobile experience in Victorian America, and his approach is sweeping rather than precise. There are chapters dedicated to the omnibus, streetcars, ferryboats, and canals; the various types of steamships—river, lake, and coastal—are divided into three separate chapters along with differentiations for first-class and coach-class train travel. In acknowledging these differences in class or [End Page 285] the tribulations of immigrant travel as compared to domestic, White audaciously attempts to provide at least a snapshot of the complete experience of the road or rail or water for Victorian-era travelers. Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell. Edited by Elizabeth McCutchen Williams. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. Pp. 294. $40.00 cloth; $40.00 e-book) Researchers and scholars of the southern highlands region of Appalachia are probably familiar with John and Olive Campbell for founding the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and their significant contributions to the study of the region, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917) and The Southern Highlander and His Homeland (1921). Olive Campbell’s diary from their 1908–9 journey through Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina, currently housed at the University of North Carolina, is in a fragile condition and only accessible to researchers through a microfilmed transcription by an unknown author. Utilizing digital copies of the original diary, Elizabeth Williams has improved upon this translation and annotated Campbell’s diary along with an introduction that further explains the couple’s pioneering work. Written by a folklorist with a keen eye and ear, Campbell’s diary is filled with observations, interviews, and insights into Appalachian life at the dawn of the twentieth century. This is a critical source for anyone interested in Appalachian history and society. “Star-Spangled Hearts”: American Women Veterans of World War II. Edited by Jeffrey S. Suchanek with Jeanne Ontko Suchanek. (Frankfort, Ky.: Broadstone Books, 2011. Pp. 457. $49.95 cloth; $29.95 paper) Over a quarter of a million women volunteered for military service during World War II. Oral historian Jeffrey Suchanek has compiled interviews from twenty of these women—many of whom [End Page 286] were Kentuckians who served in the Army Nurse Corps, Women’s Army Corps, WAVES, Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, and the Coast Guard SPARs—into narrative-style memoirs. The result is a fascinating account that balances comical adjustments to military life with social issues like sexual harassment and homosexuality that will resonate in modern ears. Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir. By Josh Graves. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. Pp. 133. $21.95 paper) Joining the iconic Bluegrass band Flat and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1955, Josh Graves pioneered the introduction of the resonator guitar (the “Dobro”) into Bluegrass music. Compiled from a series of interviews Graves provided in 1994, Bluegrass Bluesman details Graves’s childhood, life on the...

Students’ Experiences With Military Nurses as Faculty

The United States Army Nurse Corps (ANC) and the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMDSON) formed a partnership to address the nursing faculty shortage. Six ANC officers served as full-time faculty at the UMDSON for a 2-year period. Given that the student experience is central to the context of learning, the purpose of this study was to describe the experience of the students who interacted with ANC officers. Using a descriptive phenomenological approach, 14 nursing students participated in open-ended, in-depth, audiotaped interviews. Although the students had preconceived ideas about ANC officers as faculty, following engagement with the officers, the students reported many positive attributes of having ANC officers as clinical instructors and an enlightened understanding of the role of the military in today's world. The findings of this study indicate that the use of ANC officers is a plausible solution to the ongoing nursing shortage.

Kara Dixon Vuic . Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War . (War/Society/Culture.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2010. Pp. xii, 271. $50.00.

Despite the title, this thought-provoking study is not a general history of army nurses in the Vietnam War. Kara Dixon Vuic goes beyond a history of army nursing during that time to discuss army nurse recruiting policy, how army nurses framed their experiences, and how the changing roles of army nurses illuminate “the ways in which other individuals and institutions defined gender in the 1960's and 1970's” (p. 12). Army nurses' experiences, Vuic notes, “reveal both the possibilities and limitations of the broader changes that defined the war and the era” (p. 10). The monograph begins with a chapter titled, “Lady, You're in the Army Now,” which follows the story of Kate O'Hare Palmer, who joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1967. Despite assurances that she would not be sent to Vietnam, Palmer received her orders and boarded a flight for Vietnam in June 1968. Her experience reveals, Vuic explains, “some of the themes common to all army nurses who served in Vietnam and highlights the peculiar experience of women serving in an army composed mostly of men” (p. 2).

Kara Dixon Vuic, Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War

Kara Dixon Vuic, Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War

Building Adaptive Nurse Leaders for Future Army Full Spectrum Operations

The Army Nurse Corps (ANC) life cycle model outlines major milestones that are required, expected, or recommended to be achieved to prepare Army Nurses to become senior leaders. Army nurses must be prepared to function in uncertain future full spectrum operational environment. The purpose of this study was to determine specific education and developmental experiences that will assist in developing ANC officers to become adaptive leaders through a review of literature and qualitative study. Fifteen interviews were conducted with senior ANC officers. Purposive sampling was used, yielding a sample population with a variety of experiences, to include deployments, recruiting, command, and joint operational assignments. Results indicated that the major themes for senior leader preparation are military education, field experience, and the need to add a new career pathway to ensure equal opportunity of advancement for both clinicians and administrators.

Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War (review)

Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War (review)

A Contemporary History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps

A Contemporary History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps