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Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist, and author who made her mark during World War I. In 1915, she became one of the first American war nurses to volunteer in Europe, where she treated soldiers in a French field hospital in Belgium. La Motte kept a poignant diary that vividly captured the harrowing realities of war. As a professor of American studies who has devoted years to researching her life, I delved into her compelling war writings. Shortly after the war began, La Motte published her groundbreaking book, “The Backwash of War,” which presents a mix ...

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do...

Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was a pioneering American nurse, journalist, and author who made her mark during World War I. In 1915, she bravely volunteered as one of the first American war nurses in Europe, serving in a French field hospital in Belgium. There, she meticulously documented the harrowing realities of war in a candid diary, revealing the grim and often darkly humorous experiences of wounded soldiers. Cynthia Wachtell, a research associate professor of American studies at Yeshiva University, delved into La Mottes life and her powerful war writings. Her explosive book, The ...

In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty, was a nurse-in-training at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. For the next three years, she kept a meticulous diary of her day-to-day existence, leaving behind a vivid record of the real-time concerns of a busy, thoughtful woman on the frontline of the war at home. Kathleen’s days were never the same. She writes in clear and lively prose about life in the hospital: of her fellow nurses, her patients, about death and dying, and the progress of the war as wounded soldiers returned from Normandy in the summer of 1944.

All seems tranquil as newly qualified health visitor Sarah motors into a small Kentish hilltop village in her new green mini. She's barely out of the car when she's called to assist the midwife with a bride who's gone into labour in the middle of her own wedding reception. And so her adventures begin.... As a health visitor, Nurse Sarah is as green as grass, but she puts her best foot into wellies and braves the mad dogs, killer ganders and muddy tracks of the farming community.

An inspiring and astounding look at the extraordinary courage and contribution of Australian nurses and medics during the Vietnam War. From the best-selling author of Bush Nurses and Nurses of the Outback comes this collection of compelling and moving stories of our heroic nurses in the Vietnam War. Being a nurse always requires a cool head, a steady hand and an open heart. But if you're working in a war zone, the challenges are much harder.

We’re connecting with nurses and other health care professionals to hear their stories and learn what is exemplary and groundbreaking in the world of nursing right now. The stories they share are extraordinary, inspirational and at times, gut-wrenching. Join us as we explore what drives these individuals to answer the call to care and how their work impacts their lives and the lives of those they serve. Presented by UCHealth. Contact us at thenursesstation@uchealth.org

Nurse and Spy is a captivating account of one womans extraordinary experiences as she served on the front lines of the Civil War. Over the course of two years, she not only nursed the wounded but also assumed the perilous role of a spy, infiltrating enemy lines in various disguises—successfully completing this hazardous mission eleven times without ever being detected. Her time in the “Secret Service” and her dedicated work in hospitals are filled with thrilling and poignant stories that bring to life the struggles and triumphs of those turbulent times. - Summary from the ...

What is Nursing? In an effort to answer this question, this podcast explores interesting stories in nursing by interviewing healthcare personnel at all levels of care. From the boardroom to the bedside....this podcast explores it all! Each podcast features an individual who pushes healthcare forward each and every day.

Life and other stuff as lived through a Nursing lens.

A medical podcast with a normal dude and a real working operating room registered nurse (with REALLY long hair), telling stories, chatting, and learning about the things that go on in the medical field.

Nurse Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and attempted to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital. This is the true story of her horrific crimes. This new and exclusive podcast series examines her shocking murders, how she was able to get away with it for so long, and how she was finally arrested and brought to trial. New episodes weekly. By Joshua Perry-Parker. Enquiries: JoshuaPerryParker@gmail.com

Since the NHS was set up in 1948 thousands of women and men from Ireland have come to train and nurse in the UK. Recruitment drives throughout the 1950s and 60s saw NHS staff travel around Ireland to interview and sign up mainly Irish teenage girls for nurse training. Irish Nurses in the NHS shares the experiences and lives of nurses who travelled from Ireland and helped build the health service over these decades and beyond. In this series you'll hear from dozens of these nurses about their motivations to leave home, how they adapted to their new lives in Britain and what their ...

The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the World Wars is one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remains largely untold. Thousands of middle-class girls, barely out of school, were plucked from sheltered backgrounds, subjected to training regimes unimaginably tough by today's standards, and sent forth to share the harsh conditions of the fighting services.

Lynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she joined the army and was shipped to Vietnam. When she arrived in Vietnam her idealistic view of the war vanished quickly. She worked long hours in cramped, ill-equipped, understaffed operating rooms. She saw friends die.

In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as US Army nurses. For more than half a century these women's experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war.

The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War. Now a major six-part television series. By the end of the Great War, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over 200 had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them.

The groundbreaking journeys of psychiatric mental health nurses are featured in this podcast brought to you by the Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association. Follow these outstanding behavioral health nurses in their quest to meet the urgent and unmet needs of underserved communities across America. Funding for this podcast was made possible (in part) by Grant# 1H79SM090074-01 from SAMHSA. The views expressed by the speakers and host do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services nor does mention of trade names, commercial ...

Author NCR Davis (For the Boys -- The War Story of a Combat Nurse in Patton's Third Army) reads letters and service diary entries from Lt. Mary E. Balster, a nurse who will eventually find herself caring for the wounded and dying just behind the front lines of Patton's Third Army.

A month after her 24th birthday, Lt. Mary Elizabeth Balster collapses among the rubble of a shelled supply room. On the night of November 30, 1944, holed up in the Heinrich Himmler Barracks in Morhange, France, Lt. Balster's evac receives a typical patient load, but this time one of the admissions is a 19-year-old tanker she'd nursed back to health five months before in Normandy. The charge nurse on Surgical gently informs the lieutenant that the private is critical.