Accession Number: 88-159-EQ
Original work: Oil on Canvas
Original size: 8 by 15 inches
An important function of the Navy nurse is to instruct hospital corpsmen. Here one nurse supervises the administration of an anesthetic, Pentothal Sodium, which is being given intravenously preparatory to resetting a patient's leg. On the man's thigh is a Roger Anderson fracture device, having pins to hold the bone in place. This patient, a Marine raider under treatment in a Navy mobile hospital unit in New Caledonia, was hit by a Japanese bullet that pierced both legs, fracturing the left thigh, and severing a nerve in his right leg.
By 1943, the Navy Nurse Corps reached nearly 4000 regular and reserve nurses, up from approximately 800 just two years prior. Nurses were deployed outside the U.S. in fourteen duty stations and one POW camp in the Philippines. This scene occurred in a Navy mobile hospital unit in New Caledonia, an island slightly smaller than the state of New Jersey in the South Pacific, off the east coast of Australia.
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