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Australian Army Nurse Informative Speech
Good evening Prime Minister, Governor General, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. I am honoured to be here to move beyond Charles Bean's conventional Anzac Legend by exposing the overlooked Australian army nurse experiences. They reveal that nurses endured chauvinistic constraints, traumatic conditions and perpetual anguishing impacts on their lives (Inglis, K. S, 2015).
Over two thousand two hundred Australian civilian nurses volunteered to serve as army nurses in World War 1. These nurses constantly cleaned, bandaged and comforted hundreds of patients whom had ghastly wounds or were suffering from dreadful diseases (Bell, M. R, 2015). Additionally, Australian army nurses faced numerous challenging working conditions including …show more content…
This significantly exposes that Australian army nurses experienced constant alarming working conditions such as viewing numerous disturbing scenes (King. J, 2014). Accordingly, these appalling adversities caused Australian army nurses to endure reduced physical, mental and emotional health. Although unrecognised, many Australian army nurses would have encountered severe long-term mental health problems that would have largely impacted on their lives. This included of depression, lethargy, anxiety, high tension, unconscious hostility and chronic stress disorders (King. J, …show more content…
Australian army nurses were haunted by intrusive thoughts, harrowing flashbacks and appalling nightmares and encountered severe disorders such as depression, insomnia and anxiety. Unfortunately, most Australian army nurses perpetually lived in continual fear and distress. Hence, this artefact broadens our understanding of the awful impacts of the war on Australian army nurses (Researching Australian Nurses, 2015).
Therefore, these artefacts develop beyond Bean's Anzac Legend and prove to us that women endure similar distressing impacts as men do from wars. Furthermore, the Australian army nurses experiences broaden our understanding of Australian Great War experiences by acknowledging that Australian army nurses endured challenging conditions, sex discrimination and permanent tormenting effects that largely impacted on their lives (Moreland Remembers World War 1,
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