Doherty Mary Ellen PhD RN CNM - Nurses After War

Nurses After War

Mary Ellen Doherty, PhD, RN, CNM, is a professor at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut, teaching nursing students at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. Dr. Doherty is also an active researcher specializing in womens health and midwifery, although her most recent work focuses on nurses experiences in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and their reintegration. She has been a certified nurse-midwife for more than 30 years, working in both the public and private sectors. Dr. Doherty was the founder and president of Concord Nurse-Midwifery Associates, a private midwifery practice with delivery privileges at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts. Her research articles have been published in the Journal of Midwifery and Womens Health, the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, The Journal of Perinatal Education, The International Journal of Childbirth Education, MCN: The American Journal of MaternalChild Nursing, and the Journal of Psychosocial Nursing. She is an active member of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, three chapters of Sigma Theta Tau, the Association of Womens Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), Lamaze Inc., and the International Childbirth Education Association. In 2013, Dr. Doherty received the Norton Mezvinsky Award for Excellence in Research from the Connecticut State University System Board of Regents. This was the first time the award was given to a nurse. Dr. Doherty is a reviewer for two maternalchild nursing journals and is an expert witness on maternalnewborn cases for the legal system. She has presented her research throughout the United States and in Ireland, England, Austria, and Denmark.

Elizabeth Scannell-Desch, PhD, RN, OCNS, is associate dean for undergraduate studies and a professor at the Rutgers University School of Nursing, Camden, New Jersey. Her research focuses on womens health and military nursing. She is a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps, having served 25 years on active duty, including 8 years overseas. Her last military assignment was at the Pentagon as the chief nurse executive for the entire Air Force Reserve. She was also chairperson of the nursing division at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York, coordinator for graduate and undergraduate studies at Adelphi University, College of Nursing, Hudson Valley Center, New York, and a faculty member at Rutgers University, College of Nursing, Newark, and New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Scannell-Desch has many data-based publications in national and international peer-reviewed nursing journals, including The Western Journal of Nursing Research, The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, The Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, MCN: The American Journal of MaternalChild Nursing, The Journal of Transcultural Nursing, and The Journal of Advanced Nursing. Much of her published research has focused on nurses serving in the Vietnam War and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Dr. Scannell-Desch served as visiting faculty in the summer of 2001 at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoka, Romania, and as a military consultant to the surgeon general for nursing research and oncology nursing. She received the Rita C. Kopf Memorial Research Award from the Foundation of New York State Nurses in 2010 and the Sustained Professional Performance Award from the Foundation of New York State Nurses in 2012. Dr. Scannell-Desch is a reviewer for Military Medicine, and has presented her research nationally and internationally.

Nurses After War

The Reintegration Experience of Nurses Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan

Mary Ellen Doherty, PhD, RN, CNM
Elizabeth Scannell-Desch, PhD, RN, OCNS

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Doherty, Mary Ellen, author. | Scannell-Desch, Elizabeth, author.

Title: Nurses after war: the reintegration experience of nurses returning from Iraq and Afghanistan / Mary Ellen Doherty, Elizabeth Scannell-Desch.

Description: New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016012748 | ISBN 9780826194138 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9780826194145 (eBook)

Subjects: | MESH: Military Nursing | Nursespsychology | Iraq War, 20032011 | Afghan Campaign 2001 | Stress Disorders, Post-Traumaticrehabilitation | Social Support | United States | Personal Narratives

Classification: LCC RT86 | NLM WZ 112.5.N8 | DDC 610.73019dc23

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This book is dedicated to all U.S. military nurses who have served our country. Military nurses truly exemplify the courage, dedication, commitment, leadership, and clinical expertise embodied in the nursing profession. It is also dedicated to our remaining family: Len, Chris, Meaghan, Jake, Sadie, Maxwell, and Maggie. You are the sun, the moon, and the stars to us. You motivate us to expand our horizons, seek truth, and continue our journey toward greater knowledge development. We could not do what we do without your support, understanding, and love.