BALTIMORE, Md., April 15 -- The Uniformed Services University issued the following news release:
For a military nurse, the "impossible choice" doesn't always look like a split-second decision on a battlefield. Sometimes, it is the quiet, lingering weight of a pediatric ward in a combat zone where the right equipment doesn't exist. Other times, it is the sharp internal friction of providing medical care to an enemy combatant while an injured teammate lies in the next bay. At the Uniformed Services University's (USU) Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing (GSN), these aren't just hypotheticals-they are the lived experiences of the student body.
Retired Army Col. Angela Simmons, a nurse scientist, is looking past the clinical surface to...