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Please, nurse!

Lock, Joan2013
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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.
Main title:
Please, nurse! / Joan Lock.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Orion Books, 2013.
Collation:
145 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: as Reluctant Nightingale. London: Dent, 1970.
ISBN:
9781409128137 (pbk)9781409128144 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
610.73092610.73092920/LOCK
Local class:
B/LOCK
Language:
English
BRN:
1815872
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