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Description: | British civilian nurse with Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment in Birmingham, GB, 1914-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of period as VAD nurse at Dudley Road Military Hospital, Birmingham, 1914-1919: early interest in nursing; joining Voluntary Aid Detachment; parent's reaction; attitude towards nursing work; training; uniform; attitude towards work on surgical ward; types of wounds; attitude of patients towards nursing staff.
REEL 2 Continues: duties; relations between VAD nurses and professional staff; VAD duties; food rations; social life; patients' visitors; patients' embroidery, basket work and other craft activities; siblings' war work; assisting at amputations.
REEL 3 Continues: reaction of patients to amputations; laying out corpses; death rate in hospital; processing of new patients; patients' charts; rehabilitation of patients; cleaning of patients on arrival; blanket baths.
REEL 4 Continues: celebrating 21st Birthday; Christmas celebrations; attitude towards war; attitude towards Germans; cleaning duties; daily routine and duties; dressing wounds.
REEL 5 Continues: dressing wounds; blanket bath; visiting the dispensary; meeting ambulance trains; condition of patients on arrival; outdoor uniform; condition of patients on arrival; field dressings; psychological condition of patients; relations between VAD nurses and patients.
REEL 6 Continues: VAD accommodation; night duty; social life; duties of VAD nurses and professional staff; absence of female doctors; relations between hospital staff; tending to patients; medical equipment; types of wounds; dressing head wounds.
REEL 7 Continues: use of leeches; social life; popular songs; blackout curtains in hospital; air raids; air raid precautions; attitude towards war and outcome. Aspects of plastering limbs, post-war. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooks, Margaret A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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