Along with the losses of loved ones, nurses suffered through some awful conditions. The health of these nurses often took a toll. The weather and conditions in which they worked created some major issues for their health and their patients’ health. One Sister wrote to family members complaining about the health issues being faced, “In a letter to her sister she claimed her health had ‘gone to pot…I had some awful nights coughing through a raw, swollen throat with pains all over.’ She further explained that ‘feeling unwell’ had become a regular feature of her life on active service: ‘I’ve had so many colds and headaches on the train, as a matter of fact, I’ve had so many that whenever I’ve found myself free of either I’ve recorded in my Diary how remarkably …show more content…
These conditions and lack of attention created issues for many of the women who participated in the profession during the war. The other issue that plagued the nurses at the beginning of the Great War was the lack of preparedness, “Between August and December it had been a steep learning curve for the medical and nursing services. The problem of the AMS, being ill prepared and the equipped to meet the trying wartime conditions in which they found themselves, were cynical and by far the greatest hindrance to the effectiveness of the casualty care arrangements.” Between the lack of good facilities and lack of proper preparedness the nursing efforts were majorly hindered and this created some of the steepest challenges for nurses during the war. The issue with being unprepared for the casualties that would occur created anxiety and forced the issue of having more people trained in the medical profession. They would realize that, although, soldiers were signing up for war they would need plenty of doctors and nurses to help save those who were