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Lesniak, Rhonda Goodman. "Expanding the role of women as nurses during the American Civil War." Advances in Nursing Science 32.1 (2009): 33-42. online; Maher, Mary Denis. To bind up the wounds: Catholic sister nurses in the US Civil War (LSU Press, 1999). Pokorny, Marie E. "An historical perspective of Confederate nursing during the Civil War ...
American women never served in combat roles (as did some Russians), but many were eager to serve as nurses and support personnel in uniform. [69] During the course of the war, 21,498 U.S. Army nurses (American military nurses were all women then) served in military hospitals in the United States and overseas.
Portrait of Loretta Walsh, 1917 1908: Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee: was a Canadian-born US Army nurse, and the first woman for which a US Naval Ship was named. Lenah was one of the first twenty women to join the Navy Nurse Corps in 1908. She rose through the ranks and served as the second Superintendent of the US Navy Nurse Corps during World War I.
It was great money, about $12-20 per hour, and included a free meal and drink. ... I worked my way through nursing school in the 70's by waiting tables at a steak house in Colorado Springs ...
Helen Fairchild (November 21, 1885 – January 18, 1918) was an American nurse who served as part of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, and who became known for her wartime letters to her family in the U.S., which vividly depicted the realities of combat nursing during World War I.
B. Theodosia Bagot; Katharine Baker; Vicki Baum; Léonie de Bazelaire; Ethel Becher; Dorothy Bell; Jessie Bicknell; Louisa Bicknell; Catherine Black (nurse) Bluebirds (Australian nurses)
Most of these nurses were serving in the Australian Army Nursing Service; however, a small number were serving with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, one of a number of British Army nursing services during World War I. [2] Other Australian women made their own way to Europe and joined the British Red Cross, private hospitals ...
A nurse and member of the American Red Cross, Delano organized the nursing service as the reserve of the Army Nurse Corps to be ready just before the entry of the United States into World War I. Key wartime decisions were made by Delano along with Mary Adelaide Nutting , president of the American Federation of Nurses, and Annie Warburton ...