Gulf War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 14 Americans, 1990-1991 and 2003-2010

by Patricia Rushton and Patricia Rushton

Since the pioneering work of nineteenth-century nurses such as Florence Nightingale, Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton, professional nurses have been involved in caring for the sick and wounded in combat situations. This book contains the accounts of 14 nurses who served in the U.S. military nurse corps during the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars. These men and women describe how they found themselves serving during wartime, the soldiers they cared for,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786460733
• ISBN13: 9780786460731
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher