1. Psychological Impact of Being a Nurse in a Combat Zone
Ron Bolen

2. Primary Points Public & military perception of battlefield nurse
The care the battlefield nurse provides and the ethical decisions they must make impacts them psychologically
Increase in survival rates
Mortal danger
Ethical issues
Treating enemies
Euthenasia
Cultural differences
Prepare nurses clinically only
Need to acknowledge gap

3. Proposed Changes After Feedback
Incorporate Humanistic Nursing Theory
Humanism
Understand the patient from their context
Existentialism
Free choice, Self-determinism, Self-responsibility
Blends in two theories
Benner’s From Novice to Expert Model of Nursing
Nurses approach patients dependent on the level of expertise of the nurse
Watson’s Theory of Care
Patient’s context of the family, community, and culture
Focus of the practice is on the patient rather than the technology