Military nursing service during wartime represents significant contributions to a unique type of health care. The purposes of this study were to: (1) generate themes that elucidate combat nursing experiences, (2) honor nurses who served by sharing their stories, and (3) permanently archive accounts of nursing personnel who served during the Persian Gulf Wars during the late 20th and early 21st ...

This volume will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of schools of nursing. Designed to be used as a supplement to the usual history of nursing textbooks, it includes, as the author states in the preface, "excerpts from the most significant writings comprising the history of nursing from the era before the birth of Christ up to the founding of the first professional school of nursing in ...

In research, there is no perfection: no perfect method, no perfect sample, and no perfect data analyses tool. Coming to this understanding helps the researcher identify the inadequacies of their preferred method. This paper discusses the criticisms of the oral history method, drawing reference to its challenges and difficulties in relation to its use in nursing research. Oral history has the ad...

This work posits how medical history might be conceptualized if nurses and nursing history was used as the analytical lens. Nursing is seen not as a separate part or subsection of medical history, but rather one that is deeply embedded in the relationships and social order of clinical practice. Nursing is an analytical category in and of itself. By approaching nursing as such a category, we enl...

AIM To analyze students' strategies to adapt to the system established by the dean of Alfredo Pinto Nursing School (1949-1956). METHOD This historical-social study uses the thematic oral history to guide data collection. SOURCES students' oral statements related to the period from 1949 to 1956 and written documents from the file of the nurse Maria de Castro Pamphiro at UNIRIO. RESULTS stu...