Women and the Vietnam Experience

Schwartz, Linda Spoonster

doi:10.1111/j.1547-5069.1987.tb00001.x

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“…One Norwegian nurse described that the nursing practice in the combat zone mainly was to take care of mine casualties and multi-trauma ( 3). American studies from the World War I and II and the Vietnam War are reporting the same; the patients were young, multi-traumatized and they arrived many at the same time ( 4,5,6,7,8) .One nurse serving on the Filipens during the World War II gave a good description of the situation: «Patients came in by hundreds, and the doctors and nurses worked continuously under the tents amid the flies and heat and dust. We had from eight to nine hundred victims a day.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Of the 25 questions 21 were closed and 4 were open ended. Themes from previous studies (6,7,8,9,12,13) provided the basis for how the questions were conceptualized. The questionnaire included questions on; background, previous work experience, level of education, length of each mission, work in combat zone and how the nurses experienced the work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Throughout this practice the nurses improve professional and personal skills (6,9). Studies reported that nurses coming home from the Vietnam War as well as World War 1 felt estranged from the civilian world where restrictions prevented them from making even simple nursing decisions (4).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The intensity of the experiences from the Vietnam War persuaded some women to leave critical care for practice in areas of less stress and less dying. Other felt the war gave them the confidence and expertise to work in intensive care units (6,9). Many of the women who served in the military during the Vietnam War took further education after returning home (6).…”

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Nursing Practice in War Zones and Wisdom Acquired

Tjoflåt

1997

Nordic Journal of Nursing Research

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The purpose of this study was to describe nursing practice in war zones and skills nurses had acquired through their work. A descriptive design was used. The sample included 39 nurses who had worked in different areas of conflict around the world for two Norwegian humanitarian organizations. A questionnaire was designed to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. The results seem to indicate that the nurses were well prepared for this particular work. The nursing practice consisted of nursing victims of war and supervision/teaching of local nurses. The nurses had positive experiences from their work. The nurses acquired personal and professional skills from their work in war zones, but the results seem to indicate that their Norwegian employers just to a certain degree took advantage of these skills.

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confidence: 88%

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confidence: 99%

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Nursing Practice in War Zones and Wisdom Acquired

Tjoflåt

1997

Nordic Journal of Nursing Research

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“…Little has been written about the female nurses who served in our longest war. Several anecdotal accounts (Freedman & Rhoads, 1987;Marshall, 1988;McVicker, 1985;Schwartz, 1987;Van Devanter & Morgan, 1983;Walker, 1985) and studies (Norman, 1986; examined aspects of nurses' lives during and following their service in Vietnam. The current study describes the emotional hardships faced by these nurses and the personal strategies they used to help themselves.…”

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Hardships and Personal Strategies of Vietnam War Nurses

Scannell-Desch

2000

West J Nurs Res

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This study describes hardships faced in Vietnam and personal strategies used to deal with these hardships as defined by 24 female military nurses who served during the war. Purposive sampling was used, and data were generated using four core questions and in-depth interviews. The research methodology was phenomenology, incorporating data analysis procedures of Colaizzi, Lincoln and Guba, and Van Manen. Eight hardship and nine personal strategy themes were identified. This study found that caring for young, severely injured, and disfigured soldiers was a significant hardship and that nurses struggled with the moral dilemmas inherent in mass casualty situations, triage policies, and the practice of returning recovered soldiers to combat. Most nurses relied on personally proven and familiar strategies to reduce or buffer the effects of emotional hardships, whereas some discovered and used new strategies.

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HealthViEWS: Mortality Study of Female US Vietnam Era Veterans, 1965-2010

Kang¹,

Cypel²,

Kilbourne³

et al. 2014

American Journal of Epidemiology

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We conducted a retrospective study among 4,734 women who served in the US military in Vietnam (Vietnam cohort), 2,062 women who served in countries near Vietnam (near-Vietnam cohort), and 5,313 nondeployed US military women (US cohort) to evaluate the associations of mortality outcomes with Vietnam War service. Veterans were identified from military records and followed for 40 years through December 31, 2010. Information on underlying causes of death was obtained from death certificates and the National Death Index. Based on 2,743 deaths, all 3 veteran cohorts had lower mortality risk from all causes combined and from several major causes, such as diabetes mellitus, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and nervous system disease relative to comparable US women. However, excess deaths from motor vehicle accidents were observed in the Vietnam cohort (standardized mortality ratio = 3.67, 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.30, 5.56) and in the US cohort (standardized mortality ratio = 1.91, 95% CI: 1.02, 3.27). More than two-thirds of women in the study were military nurses. Nurses in the Vietnam cohort had a 2-fold higher risk of pancreatic cancer death (adjusted relative risk = 2.07, 95% CI: 1.00, 4.25) and an almost 5-fold higher risk of brain cancer death compared with nurses in the US cohort (adjusted relative risk = 4.61, 95% CI: 1.27, 16.83). Findings of all-cause and motor vehicle accident deaths among female Vietnam veterans were consistent with patterns of postwar mortality risk among other war veterans.

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Women and the Vietnam Experience

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Nursing Practice in War Zones and Wisdom Acquired

Nursing Practice in War Zones and Wisdom Acquired

Hardships and Personal Strategies of Vietnam War Nurses

HealthViEWS: Mortality Study of Female US Vietnam Era Veterans, 1965-2010

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