Don't Be Shy, Nurse!

Nurses today have very different lives and training from those who embarked upon this career 40 years ago. This is this is an account of the three year’s training of a nurse – set in a London hospital in the 1960s. It is the story of one initially naive student nurse and her colleagues, as they progress from their first days as the junior girls, to the day when they eventually hold the letters of professional competence in their hands. In order to arrive at this senior status, they experien...