A Nurse in Action - Softcover

Prentis, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091941377 ISBN 13: 9780091941376

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2011

Synopsis

'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would be safe where they were. Some believed us, others didn't.'

Surprising Matron as well as herself, Evelyn Prentis managed to pass her Finals and become a staff-nurse. Encouraged, she took the brave leap of moving from Nottingham to London - brave not least because war was about to break.

Not only did the nurses have to cope with stray bombs and influxes of patients from as far away Dunkirk, but there were also RAF men stationed nearby - which caused considerable entertainment and disappointment, and a good number of marriages ...

But despite all the disruption to the hospital routine, Evelyn's warm and compelling account of a nurse in action, shows a nurse's life would always revolve around the comforting discomfort of porridge and rissoles, bandages and bedpans.

About this title

Review:

"Perceptive, warm and very funny" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Highly amusing and entertaining" (Derby Evening Telegraph)

Book Description:

A nostalgic nurse's memoir for fans of Nurse and Call and Yes Sister, No Sister, sequel to A Nurse in Time (March 2011)

About this edition

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0091941377
• ISBN 13: 9780091941376
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320