She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Nursing

  • Army Nurses Give Trousers A Try

    Source: “Army Nurses Give Trousers A Try.” Belleville Daily Advocate, 11 June 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/belleville-daily-advocate/127945949/

  • Nurses Pay

    During the initial phase of the war, women who joined the military, except for Army and Navy nurses, typically received superior pay or status compared to the nurses. When the WAAC was created in May 1942, its members received higher salaries than the Army Nurse Corps. Those who enlisted in the newly formed WAVES of…

  • Federal Legislation and Nursing

    Source: “Federal Legislation and Nursing.” The American Journal of Nursing, July 1942, p. 798. https://www-jstor-org.proxy.library.maryville.edu/stable/3415830?seq=3

  • Education: Red Cross Schools

    Visitors to Washington last week who wandered into the quiet, grassy quadrangle enclosed by American Red Cross headquarters might have mistaken it for a college campus. The Red Cross was running a “war college,” complete with lecturers and students lolling on outdoor benches. Its college was the pinnacle of a vast educational system that extended…

  • The Government’s Subcommittee on Nursing

    Source: Haupt, Alma C. “The Government”™s Subcommittee on Nursing.” The American Journal of Nursing, Aug. 1942, pp. 899”“903. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416083?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • Doubling Our Efforts

    Source: Cutler, Elliott C. “Doubling Our Efforts.” The American Journal of Nursing, Sept. 1942, p. 993. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415600?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • News About Nursing

    Source: “News About Nursing.” The American Journal of Nursing, Sept. 1942, pp. 1073”“1097. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415634?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • Mr. and Mrs. Hospital Trustee – You Have a Big Job

    Source: Geister, Janet M. “Mr. and Mrs. Hospital Trustee – You Have a Big Job.” The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, Sept. 1942, pp. 175”“178.

  • Army May Let Nurses Marry

    Source: “Army May Let Nurses Marry.” The Columbus Telegram, 19 Sept. 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-columbus-telegram/135994767/