A Base Hospital is Not a Coney Island Dance Hall: American Woman Nurses, Hostile Work Environment, and Military Rank in the First World War

American nurses in Europe

“…10 And yet chauvinism was rife, and some female senior nurses appear to have been subject to bullying and harassment by male medical colleagues. 11 Paradoxically, the problem may even have been exacerbated by the relatively relaxed attitude to the class system in the USA. In Britain, their status as members of a gentry class may have offered nurses some protection.…”

“…Kimberly Jensen, in her compelling paper ' A Base Hospital Is Not a Coney Island Dance Hall' , presents a handful of clear examples of serious bullying on the part of medical officers, though it is unclear whether these can be viewed as typical. 12 Christine E. Hallett New York City, from 1901 to 1903, and nurse training at the New York Hospital School of Nursing, from which she graduated in 1908, she pursued a successful career, as superintendent of nurses, first at Harlem Hospital from 1908 to 1911, and then at Barnes Hospital, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri from 1911 to 1917. 13 Between her two periods of service as a chief nurse, Stimson took on the role of Director of Hospital Social Service at Washington University, St Louis.…”