Please, nurse!
Subtitle: a student nurse in the 1950s
By: by Joan Lock
Publisher: Orion; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409128137; 9781409128144
Subjects: Nursing students; Anecdotes; Nursing; History
Description: When Joan Lock began her formal training as a young nurse in the 1950s, she was unprepared for the strict discipline and long hours which were to follow and quickly realised she was no Florence Nightingale. Her honest and humorous account of the next three years reveals her most intimate experiences of being a nurse: from dealing with temperamental surgeons to fighting off flirtatious patients. Labelled a trouble-maker, Joan and her friends tested their strict Sisters' patience as they climbed through windows, slept through lectures and broke every thermometer that passed through their hands. But through it all, Joan found herself touched by the people she met and their heart-warming stories.