SIXTY YEARS NURSE EB
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SIXTY YEARS NURSE EB

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eBook - ePub

SIXTY YEARS NURSE EB

About this book

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later – one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.

For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking and life-changing experience. Against a backdrop of ongoing rationing and poverty, she saw for the first time the horrors of disease, the heart-breaking outcomes of failed abortions – and faced the genuine shock of seeing a man naked for the first time!

60 Years a Nurse follows the dramas and emotions as Mary found her feet during those early years. From the firm friends she made under the ever-watchful gaze of Matron and the sisters, to the eclectic mix of Londoners she strove to care for; the Teddy Boys she danced with and the freedom of living away from home; and her own burgeoning love story, as extraordinary as it was romantic – these are the funny and heartwarming moments that helped Mary to follow her dream.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1: Arriving from Ireland
  8. 2: Joining the Regiment
  9. 3: Settling In
  10. 4: Bring Out Your Dead
  11. 5: Yes, Matron; No, Sister
  12. 6: Of Lice and Men
  13. 7: Public Enema Number One
  14. 8: Letting My Hair Down
  15. 9: Tragic Love Story
  16. 10: Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook
  17. 11: Theatre Tales
  18. 12: TB Traumas
  19. 13: Carbolic, Drugs and TLC
  20. 14: Private Rooms and Community Life
  21. 15: Kidnapped
  22. 16: Reader, I Married Him … and Carried On Working for the Next Sixty Years …
  23. Exclusive sample chapter
  24. If you like this, you’ll love …
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  27. About the Publisher