Starched Caps: A Nurse's Memoir

It was the summer of 1960. Elvis Presley had recently been discharged from the Army and had a number one hit, "Stuck on You." John Fitzgerald Kennedy was running for president. Gasoline cost thirty-one cents a gallon. And author Nancy Swan White had just completed a two-week nursing-aide course; at age sixteen she was ready to start her first job in a hospital. It was a career that would last forty-five years.In Starched Caps, she shares an entertaining and moving memoir of the training and...