MILITARY OFFERS NURSES UNORTHODOOX PATH TO CAREER FULFILLMENT
December 1st, 2006
BY DEIRDRE MASON
IN an era when military intervention has been given a bad name through the Iraq morass, serving with the army, navy or air force might not be the immediate choice of many nurses as a career path which helps the needy.
But ironically, the American armed forces based in Europe have actually been trail blazing programmes in West Africa that shows how military nurses can actually make a huge difference to the lives of people little helped by national health services overseas. Over the past decade, US armed forces have set up a special relationship ...
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