Lived Experience of Women Military Nurses
The Lived Experience of Woman Military Nurses in Vietnam during the Vietnam War
The intention of this paper is to identify key components of women military nurses who served during the Vietnam War. This study will notably add in helping create core curriculum for the training of military nurses.
The research design was to qualitatively define the phenomena that these women military nurses were subjected to during the Vietnam War. The experiences during and after the Vietnam War were the main objective for this research.
The subjects can be described as woman nurses who had served in all military branches during the Vietnam War. In order to get these specific woman, Scannell-Desch used “Snowball Sampling” which consisted on interviewing one woman nurse that served in the Vietnam War and that woman suggested other woman who then suggested other woman etc.
The method primarily used for data collection in this article was tapings of the four question interviews conducted of the various woman nurses who served in the Vietnam War.
The data analysis consisted of using Phenomenological Methodology which was validated by at two doctorial prepared reviewers that conducted a reliability and validity check of various information to create themes. These themes were then broken down into metathemes.
The author based her findings on data analysis that demonstrated the long term effects on nurses that served during war time. The emotional impact on these women was deep and carried through to those who have to care for them.
The author concluded that nursing education, especially for those who are military bound, should include adaptive coping methods. The findings from this research could be applied in the nursing practice by educating nurses on methods to help alleviate stress and implement a support team that would help in coping with situations. Nurses have to deal with ethical and moral dilemmas that can cause distress and anguish which would result in
The intention of this paper is to identify key components of women military nurses who served during the Vietnam War. This study will notably add in helping create core curriculum for the training of military nurses.
The research design was to qualitatively define the phenomena that these women military nurses were subjected to during the Vietnam War. The experiences during and after the Vietnam War were the main objective for this research.
The subjects can be described as woman nurses who had served in all military branches during the Vietnam War. In order to get these specific woman, Scannell-Desch used “Snowball Sampling” which consisted on interviewing one woman nurse that served in the Vietnam War and that woman suggested other woman who then suggested other woman etc.
The method primarily used for data collection in this article was tapings of the four question interviews conducted of the various woman nurses who served in the Vietnam War.
The data analysis consisted of using Phenomenological Methodology which was validated by at two doctorial prepared reviewers that conducted a reliability and validity check of various information to create themes. These themes were then broken down into metathemes.
The author based her findings on data analysis that demonstrated the long term effects on nurses that served during war time. The emotional impact on these women was deep and carried through to those who have to care for them.
The author concluded that nursing education, especially for those who are military bound, should include adaptive coping methods. The findings from this research could be applied in the nursing practice by educating nurses on methods to help alleviate stress and implement a support team that would help in coping with situations. Nurses have to deal with ethical and moral dilemmas that can cause distress and anguish which would result in