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Angles of the Mercy Fleet: Nursing the Ill and Wounded Aboard U.S. Navy Hospital Ships in the Pacific During World War II (July 1998 - February 2001).

PB2005108884

Publication Date	2005
Personal Author	Connor-Ballard, P. A.
Page Count	78
Abstract	Nurses were among the cross section of American society that immediately volunteered for wartime duty after the Pearl Harbor attack. More than thirty percent of American nurses enlisted in the military during World War II, including fourteen thousand nurses who entered the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. Naval nurses were assigned to base hospitals, clinics, and hospital ships. Under the protective mercy guidelines promulgated in the international Geneva Convention treaty, fifteen naval hospital ships followed the fleet into battle to evacuate, transport, and care for the ill and wounded. The purpose of this study was to reconstruct and analyze the experiences of nurses serving aboard naval hospital ships in the Pacific during World War II. Particular attention focused on the transition over time of the nurses' ability to adapt and function in a team aboard ship while under wartime conditions. Research foci included the personal and professional characteristics of the nurses; the role and responsibilities of the nurses in the triage and treatment of military personnel; the diversity of patients aboard the hospital ship fleet; the clinical skill acquisition of the nurses; the cohesiveness and effectiveness of the military medical team aboard ship; the changes that occurred in clinical nursing practice and the delivery of care over time aboard ship; and the identification of patient care and nursing scenarios which could be effective as simulated learning opportunities in the readiness preparation of current naval nursing personnel.
Keywords	Nursing Hospitals Navy Fleets(Ships) Patients Wartime Injuries Clinical medicine Medical services Medical evacuation Military medicine Volunteers Naval personnel Nurses Trauma Ships Military personnel World War II
Source Agency	Single Entry
Corporate Authors	Virginia Univ., Charlottesville. School of Nursing.; TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200521

Angles of the Mercy Fleet: Nursing the Ill and Wounded Aboard U.S. Navy Hospital Ships in the Pacific During World War II (July 1998 - February 2001).

Angles of the Mercy Fleet: Nursing the Ill and Wounded Aboard U.S. Navy Hospital Ships in the Pacific During World War II (July 1998 - February 2001).
PB2005108884

Publication Date	2005
Personal Author	Connor-Ballard, P. A.
Page Count	78
Abstract	Nurses were among the cross section of American society that immediately volunteered for wartime duty after the Pearl Harbor attack. More than thirty percent of American nurses enlisted in the military during World War II, including fourteen thousand nurses who entered the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. Naval nurses were assigned to base hospitals, clinics, and hospital ships. Under the protective mercy guidelines promulgated in the international Geneva Convention treaty, fifteen naval hospital ships followed the fleet into battle to evacuate, transport, and care for the ill and wounded. The purpose of this study was to reconstruct and analyze the experiences of nurses serving aboard naval hospital ships in the Pacific during World War II. Particular attention focused on the transition over time of the nurses' ability to adapt and function in a team aboard ship while under wartime conditions. Research foci included the personal and professional characteristics of the nurses; the role and responsibilities of the nurses in the triage and treatment of military personnel; the diversity of patients aboard the hospital ship fleet; the clinical skill acquisition of the nurses; the cohesiveness and effectiveness of the military medical team aboard ship; the changes that occurred in clinical nursing practice and the delivery of care over time aboard ship; and the identification of patient care and nursing scenarios which could be effective as simulated learning opportunities in the readiness preparation of current naval nursing personnel.
Keywords	Nursing Hospitals Navy Fleets(Ships) Patients Wartime Injuries Clinical medicine Medical services Medical evacuation Military medicine Volunteers Naval personnel Nurses Trauma Ships Military personnel World War II
Source Agency	Single Entry
Corporate Authors	Virginia Univ., Charlottesville. School of Nursing.; TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200521