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Nurses After War : The Reintegration Experience of Nurses Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan by Mary Ellen Doherty, PhD, RN, CNM; Elizabeth Scannell-Desch, PhD, RN, OCNS is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Nurses After War : The Reintegration Experience of Nurses Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan about?

<p>Based on candid interviews with 35 nurses who were deployed for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the first book to reveal the stresses and moral dilemmas they experienced as they transitioned back into everyday life. The nurses share their difficulties with family separation, clinical reassignments, post-traumatic stress disorder, the perceived stigma of seeking mental health counseling, and compassion fatigue. They describe how "doing nursing" in a war zone changed them personally and expanded their nursing skills, and how reintegration was more difficult than they had anticipated. In addition to serving as a personal account of the experiences,both individual and collective,of these military nurses, the book will serve researchers as a compelling example of qualitative, phenomenological, and descriptive research.</p><p>Interviewees describe in vivid detail their homecoming, family adjustments, renegotiation of spousal and parenting roles, domestic and workplace challenges, and many other dilemmas posed by the reintegration process. They provide insights and thoughtful recommendations for changes to current military debriefing to improve the experiences of future warti

Author

Mary Ellen Doherty, PhD, RN, CNM; Elizabeth Scannell-Desch, PhD, RN, OCNS

Publisher

New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, LLC

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826194138

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Nursing