Breaking Paradigms: Overcoming Career Obstacles in Army Nursing

Abstract

Army Nurses (ANs) confront a truncated career path, discouraging aspiring nurses while depriving the Army of talents of this group of senior officers. Leadership and management skills, perspective, and endurance are examples of attributes strengthened throughout a nursing/military career. Such attributes are assets in any military discipline and would enable ANs to flourish in atypical command and staff positions at senior levels. Unfortunately, societal conditioning, institutional resistance, inadequate understanding of the profession of nursing, and failure of ANs to fully appreciate their responsibilities as Army officers contribute to truncated careers. This paper identifies specific obstacles to atypical career progression for ANs and delineates techniques and competencies to over obstacles and prepare ANs to achieve atypical career progression.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1992
Accession Number
ADA251322

Entities

People

  • Virginia R. Cheney

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Combat Areas
  • Education
  • General Officers
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Identification
  • Military Education
  • Negotiations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Patient Care
  • Physicians
  • Security
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Materials Science.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Strategic Security Studies