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A Nurse and Mother by Evelyn Prentis
Category: Biography
"'Matron smiled. It was the smile that one woman gives to another and not the chilly facial movement from Matrons of old. "Do you think you would be able to work 9 to 3.30?" For a moment I couldn't think at all. There seemed something not quite right in being paid for so little labour.' At the end of th ...Show more
A Nurse in Action by Evelyn Prentis
Category: Biography
" We were quickly learning to live with war. At night the searchlights gave more light than we had seen since the blackout began. We used it to light our way to the shelters with the patients who could walk there. We became very proficient at moving them quickly when the sirens went. We were equally pro ...Show more
A Nurse in Time by Evelyn Prentis
Category: Biography
Desperate circumstances were something Evelyn Prentis had to get very used to when she began her life as a nurse. It was in 1934 that Evelyn left home for the first time to enrol as a trainee at a busy Nottingham hospital in the hope of GBP25 a year. This book gives her account of those days of dedicati ...Show more
Matron at Last by Evelyn Prentis
Category: Biography
"'When do you have a bath?' I asked Mrs Turgoose. I hope you're not suggesting that I don't look after meself properly,' she said crossly. 'There was a woman who used to use it, but that was because she was a bit stuck up. She soon went off the idea when it started to get cold.' /i>fter working as a ...Show more
Matron in Charge - The Life of a 1960s Nurse by Evelyn Prentis
Category: Biography
" It must be stressed from the start that I was not a born nurse. Not every girl is. Not every nurse is either, however wholeheartedly she may throw herself into the project once she gets going. Born nurses can be easily recognised. They have a little something the others haven t got which never seems t ...Show more
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