Nancy Kimball and her new friends at City Hospital barely escape being caught forming a secret society after lights-out. Then they win a full grown and gobbling Thanksgiving turkey and secretly keep him, until he escapes, in the baggage room of their dormitory. These are just two of the escapades that provide Nancy with fun and excitement in her second year of nurse’s training.
However, when she learns that two of her new friends have endangered the life of a patient, Nancy’s conscience and training take over and she realizes she must report them, although this will cause trouble between her and her classmates.
Problems mount. How Nancy eventually copes with them makes exciting and enjoyable reading for girls.
From the hospital window, Jan watches the familiar green car swing around the drive. Moments later Dorinda steps into it and takes her place beside the driver.
The crudely lettered note terrified Roda — and the mysterious phone calls in the night added to her growing fear. Yet she refused to be driven away from Pinecrest. Her millionaire patient needed her care — and the two young men who were falling more in love with her daily should be protection against any peril…
Then terror struck savagely — and Roda looked into the naked face of danger!
Against the background of a busy hospital, Zillah Macdonald tells a story of heartbreak and triumph that brings into focus the exciting elements of medical research, nurses’ problems, doctors’ attitudes, administrative policy and the challenge of nursing itself.
When polio strikes, Meadowlands Hospital is well equipped to handle the emergency. Modern methods are used for the rehabilitation of its patients, and there is a wonderful spirit of cooperation and selflessness among the members of the staff who try not to inject their personal problems into their nursing routines.
There is Rosemary Pendleton, probationer, whom everyone likes but who will not invite confidences; Corrine Burnette, who keeps constantly busy so that she will not think about her doctor-husband who is reported lost in the jungles of South America; Ollie Wentzell, who entertains the children with amusing stories, but whose mind is never far away from her laboratory where Dr. Burnette’s secret formula is locked in the wall safe; Dr. Penhallow, whom the children adore, but who seems short-tempered with the nurses. Natasha Owens knows how to direct a big hospital and keep everything running smoothly, but she worries about her staff, Rosemary in particular who seems to be carrying a big burden.
There is the day by day excitement of hospital routine and the drama of life and death itself — and when Rosemary wins her cap, all of the puzzling pieces fall into their proper places.
A moving story with a thread of mystery that will interest girls who like to read about nursing careers.
She was a beautiful young nurse at a luxury resort — learing an expensive lesson in love.
When lovely Elizabeth Spencer, R.N. made up her mind to escape the narrow confines of hospitals and see for herself what went on in the outside world, she never expected anything like her job at Key Sud — the luxury Florida hotel where female attributes seemed more imporant than nursing qualifications.
She also never expected to be working with a doctor as handsome as Kimball Brown — nor with a nurse’s aide who was a very rich, very pretty, seventeen-year-old hippie with much too grown-up ideas.
But the biggest surprise of all was James Scott Haldane, the savagely good-looking author who threw Elizabeth the curve of her life…and forced her to wonder whether she was ever meant to be a nurse at all.
