Developments in the RN First Assistant Role During the Korean War

ABSTRACT
- DURING TIMES OF WAR, demand for health care providers has stimulated increased employment of nurses and broadened the dimensions of the scope of nursing practice in the surgical arena.
- THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES how the work of army nurses during the Korean War helped develop the role of the RN first assistant. AORN J 82 (October 2005) 644-647.