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dc.contributor.authorImmonen, Ingrid B
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-04T10:30:49Z
dc.date.available2016-03-04T10:30:49Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractAs we can see in war areas today, health care systems and especially hospitals can be considered as a safety net for the civilian population. This was also the case of civilian health care institutions, nurses and medical practitioners in the sparsely populated areas in Finnmark and Northern part of Troms during World War II. Nurses are, and were, the largest group of health professionals. Most nurses worked in small communities and institutions over the large province, and their efforts have been under-communicated. Through interviews, mainly with nurses but also with catholic Sisters in Hammerfest and Tromsø as well as members of families with sick persons, we get a picture of daily work as well as work in extreme conditions. There was a need for creative solutions when the basics of water, food, supplies and medicine were lacking, when nursing care was being provided in bomb shelters or during escape. There is also the issue of ethics while nursing enemies as well as friends. The physical and mental demands on the nurses were extreme. By detailing the war’s challenges to nursing, its challenges to civilian life are at the same time conveyed.en_US
dc.descriptionPublished version. Source at <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3639>http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3639</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNordlit 2015(37/2015)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1308158
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3639
dc.identifier.issn1503-2086
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/8684
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8220
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSeptentrio Academic Publishingen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectNursingen_US
dc.subjectNursing Historyen_US
dc.subjectSecond World War Nursingen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Norway Nursingen_US
dc.subjectNursing Practiceen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Helsetjeneste- og helseadministrasjonsforskning: 806en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Health service and health administration research: 806en_US
dc.titleI learned to trust myself. An oral history of professional nurses' wartime practice in Finnmarken_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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