“I learned to trust myself”. An oral history of professional nurses' wartime practice in Finnmark
As 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...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/3639 2023-05-15T16:13:36+02:00 “I learned to trust myself”. An oral history of professional nurses' wartime practice in Finnmark Immonen, Ingrid 2015-12-15 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3639 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3639 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3639/3585 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3639 doi:10.7557/13.3639 Copyright (c) 2015 Ingrid Immonen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Nordlit; No 37 (2015): Living the War; 1–22 Nordlit; Nr 37 (2015): Living the War; 1–22 1503-2086 0809-1668 Nursing Nursing History Second World War Nursing Northern Norway Nursing Nursing Practice info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article Fagfellevurdert artikkel 2015 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3639 2021-08-16T15:52:32Z As 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Finnmark Hammerfest Northern Norway Tromsø Finnmark Troms University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Norway Tromsø Nordlit 37 |
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As 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. |
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“I learned to trust myself”. An oral history of professional nurses' wartime practice in Finnmark |
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