Maude Campbell Davison Research Paper

When the phrase, “world war hero,” comes to mind most people think of soldiers, but the hundreds of nurses that Maude Campbell Davison saved would have a different thought. Davison grew up in Canada and become a dietitian. When she emigrated to the United States she began working at a hospital in Indiana. From there, she moved to California and eventually went to nursing school (American Association, 2007). Maude Campbell Davison’s life did not begin until she became an army nurse. Today she is known for being the Chief Nurse at Fort Mills Station Hospital in the Philippines and for “The Angels of Bataan.”

Maude Campbell Davison was an all around great person. She took her nursing career very seriously, and she demanded that her nurses follow

She served at many hospitals and eventually became an American citizen. While serving in the army dealt with coping with casualties, flu victims, and many other serious health problems, but her degree in dietetics helped shape her into a better nurse. In March 1939, Maudi went to the Philippines and became the Chief Nurse at Fort Mills Hospital in Corregidor. A few years later when the Japanese attacked she ordered many civilian nurses to help, but unfortunately Maude Campbell Davison found herself hospitalized after a bomb raiding (Bullough, 2000). As the war began to break out life in the Philippines began to get very unsafe for Maude Davison and 66 other nurses, and eventually, they had to surrender. When she and the other nurses were taken captive Davison’s one rule was to stick together. She ordered the other woman to wear their khaki uniforms and their red cross armbands. The American nurses were forced to perform many difficult procedures, many of which were out of a nurse's practice. Three years later, all 66 women, were finally set free (Bullough, 2000). Maude was one of the main reasons all of the women made it out of the Philippines alive. Even though the woman were working in extreme conditions and were very malnutritioned she made sure that they stay focused. She was determined to keep all of her woman working together. In the book, Nurse Anesthesia by John