Nurses and midwives in Australian history : a guide to historical resources
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UNA, the journal of the Victorian Trained Nurses' Association (1903-1974) is temporarily available electronically via DropBox from the State Library of Victoria's Collection Digitisation team hosted on Victorian Collections. The Victorian Trained Nurses' Association (VTNA) was first constituted in 1901. Publisher timeline of the UNA journal:
Willingly into the fray : one hundred years of Australian Army nursing
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Biblio = 4500
Willingly into the Fray comprises the personal stories of sixty-five individual nurses, their voices preserved and their words, often fraught with emotion and mired in distress at what they have seen, endured and railed against, carefully retained. Many of these stories are told for the first time, particularly those of the recent campaigns, peacekeeping operations, disaster relief and humanitarian missions. In the hundred or so years since the first intrepid Boer War nurses set out, Australian Army nurses have forged a proud and enviable reputation. They are justifiably renowned for their determination to provide quality medical care despite extreme privation, perilous circumstances, and a lack of the most rudimentary medical equipment. If this is the reputation they can forge in the face of such adversity, then we have much to look forward to over the next one hundred years.
Just wanted to be there : Australian Service nurses, 1899-1999
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Biblio = 1800
A detailed history of the involvement of Australian Service Nurses in a century from the Boer War in 1889-1902 to 1999. Includes descriptions of nursing in both World War One and World War Two, covering all major fields of battle, as well as Service Nurses experiences as Prisoners of War.
Guns and brooches : Australian army nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War
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Biblio = 714
In Guns and Brooches, the author focuses upon the some 9,000 women (and a few men) who have worked as army nurses. She explores their wartime experiences, which have ranged from nursing alone in a remote farm hut on the South African veldt during the Boer War to undergoing NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical warfare) drills on an American hospital ship during the Gulf War.
Guns and Brooches investigates the contradictions, paradoxes, and anomalies which have arisen because army nurses have been in but not of the army. Financial discrimination against them as women in a men’s organization has seen the female captain in charge of an operating theatre in Vietnam being paid less than a male corporal working with her.
Guns have replaced brooches as part of their uniforms as total war has increasingly made a mockery of the distinction between non-combatants and combatants, a meaningless distinction for the nurses machine-gunned on Banka Island during the Second World War.
The other side of women and children first seems at times to have been and army nurses last. Those sent to outposts of the empire, such as India during the First World War, have also had to cope with difficulties caused by deep-seated imperial tensions. Army nurses, such as the sick sisters on Lemnos shown on the cover, have paid heavy personal costs for their experiences.
Jan Bassett draws upon their words and photographs to consider the profound impact of war upon four generations of Australian women.
The History of Australian Nurses in the First World War : An Australian College of Nursing Centenary Commemorative Trilogy
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Kitty's war : the remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton
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Oceans of love : Narrelle - an Australian nurse in World War I
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Sisters in captivity : Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the courageous story of Australian Army nurses in Sumatra, 1942-1945
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The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra.
Back to Bangka : searching for the truth about a wartime massacre
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Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ' Bud' , killed in the Second World War.Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island, parched, many dreadfully injured.One of the survivors is Australian Army nurse Dorothy ' Bud' Elmes, the great-aunt of Georgina Banks. Bud makes it to the island, where she, colleagues and a matron tend to the wounded as a plan is formulated. But it is soon discovered the place is occupied by Japanese forces, and two days later they arrive on the beach.Seventy-five years on, Georgina receives an invitation to a memorial service for her great-aunt.
With healing hands : the untold story of the Australian civilian surgical teams in Vietnam
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Critical care : nurses on the frontline of Australia's AIDS crisis
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Check with your local library or organisation to see if these are available on subscription streaming services such as Kanopy
The history of Australian nursing
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Series of four 30 minute videos including: Pioneers, Soldiers & Renegades; Settlers & Sisters; Bullets & Bedpans; and Unis & Unions
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