Shared experiences and meanings of military nurse veterans.
OBJECTIVE
To determine the shared perceptions, feelings, and experiences of U.S. military nurse veterans.


METHODS
Phenomenological based on Heideggerian philosophy.


METHODS
The population was of military nurse veterans in the U.S.A. from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Operation Desert Storm. The convenience sample was 22 nurses recruited from local and national veterans' groups who volunteered to be interviewed.


METHODS
Transcribed interviews with team members producing written interpretations; the team produced consensus about themes. Each interview was summarized and validation from the research team and respondents was sought.


CONCLUSIONS
Five common themes or shared meanings emerged: reacting personally to the war experience, living in the military, the meaning of nursing in the military, the social context of war, and images and sensations of war.


CONCLUSIONS
A coherent review of wartime nursing.
Stanton
M P
MP
School of Nursing, State University of New York at Buffalo 14214, USA.
Dittmar
S S
SS
Jezewski
M A
MA
Dickerson
S S
SS
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male; D008877:Middle East; D008888:Military Nursing; D014481:United States; D014728:Veterans / Q000523:psychology; D014744:Vietnam; D014857:Warfare