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Experience of posttraumatic stress disorder for female Vietnam nurse veterans.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Experience of posttraumatic stress disorder for female Vietnam nurse veterans./
Author:	Buechler, D. K.
Description:	288 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Rodney Ford.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-04B.
Subject:	Military Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3262594
ISBN:	9780549003182

Experience of posttraumatic stress disorder for female Vietnam nurse veterans.
Buechler, D. K.

Experience of posttraumatic stress disorder for female Vietnam nurse veterans. - 288 p.

Adviser: Rodney Ford.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Walden University, 2007.

Previous research has indicated that the experience of military nurses caring for wounded and dying soldiers in a war zone changes them emotionally and that the changes do not always remit or diminish over time. The changes commonly result in chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, there remains an important gap in the current literature regarding the phenomenological experience of living with chronic PTSD for the female Vietnam War nurse veteran. The purpose of the present study is to explore, in a phenomenological and biopsychosocial framework, the possible presence of significant emotional and interpersonal sequela and other persistent issues of living with chronic PTSD which exist in addition to those delineated in the diagnostic criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-Text Revision. Six female Vietnam veteran nurses with chronic PTSD were interviewed (using a semistructured format) via telephone. Utilizing a meaning-unit analysis leading to textural structural descriptions of participants revealed a history of abandoned nursing careers, relationships in which our participants could not receive love, ongoing struggles with anger, and a foreboding sense in their current lives. From a social change perspective, these findings represent a novel addition to the existing literature, and have the potential to foster greater specificity of focus in treatment regimes, and encourage the military to consider designing prevention and treatment programs reflective of the findings in the present study. Implications for a greater treatment focus to address career loss issues, impairments in social and intimate relationships, anger, and a chronic sense of doom are suggested by the present study. Focusing on these themes in treatment has the potential to lead to improvements in therapeutic outcomes. The present study is important in the context of current wars and terrorist attacks which continue to bring nurses into combat situations.

ISBN: 9780549003182Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017606
Military Studies.

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