Nightingale Nursing Chronicles

About the Book

The account of nursing service in post war Korea describes needs of children, especially orphans. Nurses recruited for relief service by Mennonite Central Committee were on loan to American Korean Foundation to serve in Pusan Childrens Charity Hospital, a Masonic Hospital founded by the United States Medical Corp. For years the hospital was supported by Masons through an authorized agency in Washington D.C. Current news items concerning the famine in North Korea and the fledgling efforts for reunification appear to describe the suffering of children similar to South Korea in the 1950's. Korea Odyssey describes the unimaginable hardships of the era and the courage of the Korean people to build a nation which could rightly take its place among the developed nations. Out of great tribulation they have done this with honor and a national pride in achievement well deserved.

About the Author

Dr Zimmerman was born and raised in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, one of seventy-eight grandchildren, twelve siblings, descendants of a family of early settlers. She received a BSN from Goshen College, a Masters in Maternal and Child Nursing, University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate in Urban Education from Temple University. Fieldwork report, a Study of Concept Utilization of Five Year Old Korean Orphans and her dissertation, A Study of Relationship Between Health Factors and Academic Performance are on International Library Loan. Her international service includes relief work in South Korea with Mennonite Central Committee and in India as a member of World Health Organization. Currently her service to India continues as a member of the Board of Directors of Rambo Committee, Sight for Curable Blind. She was selected by International Biographical Centre of Cambridge University, as an International Woman of the Year-1992 and received the Biographical Honours Award for International Health and Child Development.