TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooks, Jane
AB  - Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra&apos;s Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur.  The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men physically, emotionally and spiritually from the battlefield and for the war, despite concerns about their presence on the frontline. The book maps the developments in nurses’ work as the Q.A.s created a legitimate space for themselves in war zones and established nurses’ position as the expert at the bedside.  Using a range of personal testimony the book demonstrates how the exigencies of war demanded nurses alter the methods of nursing practice and the professional boundaries in which they had traditionally worked, in order to care for their soldier-patients in the challenging environments of a war zone.  Although they may have transformed practice, their position in war was highly gendered and it was gender in the post-war era that prevented their considerable skills from being transferred to the new welfare state, as the women of Britain were returned to the home and hearth. The aftermath of war may therefore have augured professional disappointment for some nursing sisters, yet their contribution to nursing knowledge and practice was, and remains, significant.
DO  - 10.7765/9781526147257
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1005173
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1126166690
KW  - Nursing work
KW  - Women’s war work
KW  - Second World War
KW  - Gender boundaries
KW  - Professional boundaries
KW  - Women’s space
KW  - Nurses’ presence
KW  - Personal testimon
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/48b8354e-af46-42ec-a6fe-c3a9badf2dd0/9781526147257_fullhl.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24933
PB  - Manchester University Press
PP  - Manchester, UK
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781526147257
TI  - Negotiating nursingnull
ER  - 
