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
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1: Arriving from Ireland
- 2: Joining the Regiment
- 3: Settling In
- 4: Bring Out Your Dead
- 5: Yes, Matron; No, Sister
- 6: Of Lice and Men
- 7: Public Enema Number One
- 8: Letting My Hair Down
- 9: Tragic Love Story
- 10: Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook
- 11: Theatre Tales
- 12: TB Traumas
- 13: Carbolic, Drugs and TLC
- 14: Private Rooms and Community Life
- 15: Kidnapped
- 16: Reader, I Married Him … and Carried On Working for the Next Sixty Years …
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