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First world war: 'The first big test of professional nursing'

Jennifer Trueland

    Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
    |August 17, 2017
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    When Helen Fairchild, a young nurse in Pennsylvania, volunteered to take her skills to Europe in the first world war, she was glad to go but felt sorry for her mother. 'If she would only not worry so much', she wrote to her brother Ned.

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