The lived experience of women military nurses in Vietnam during the Vietnam war

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-124

  Scannell Desch, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Armed services; Biography oral history; Women's issues

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY NURSING; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RECALL; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY NURSING; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES; VIETNAM; WAR;

EID: 0030163881     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1996.tb01203.x     Document Type: Article

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