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Hollywood Nurse

by Katherine McComb (1972)
Hollywood Nurse

Six months before, Trudy Wellington had left Texas to assume a nursing position at Hollywood Hospital and had moved in with Lynn Larson, another nurse, in Lynn’s apartment in the Valley. Both girls enjoyed each other’s company, and they even worked the same late-night shift. All in all, dark-haired Trudy considered herself a lucky girl.

Then the devastating California earthquake struck — and after hours on end of calming the patients and attending to the injured brought into Emergency, Trudy learned that her apartment building had been demolished. At this point, she was near collapse, and handling the emergency cases with the testy young Dr. Peter Marshall had not helped to steady her already overwrought nerves.

It was Susan Harding, the lovely blonde actress, who came to Trudy’s aid. Susan, a patient who had suffered a leg injury, insisted that Trudy and Lynn make use of her empty Santa Monica home for the time being. Trudy was hesitant about accepting such a lavish offer, but Lynn was eager to be among the movie-star set — and they did need a place to stay.

The unexpected occurs more often then not as Trudy is introduced to the world of filmdom, a world removed from hospitals and doctors — and where she soon learns that the world “love” has a different meaning from her own.

Hood River Nurse

by Beatrice Warren (1982)
Hood River Nurse

Young Roxanna Blake, dedicated coronary care nurse, was sure that handsome Eric Newberg returned the love she felt for him. So when the magnetic skier left California for Mount Hood in Oregon to pursue his skiing career, Roxanna followed him. But her idyllic dream of a life with Eric seemed to hit snags as soon as she arrived.

The first problem was Jody Averill, a women’s competition skier who was also determined to compete for Eric’s affections. Then there was Devon Roberts, who had a maddening habit of popping up when the young nurse least expected him. Worst of all, there was Eric’s determination to sacrifice everything — even Roxanna — to become a skiing champion.

Hootenanny Nurse

by Suzanne Roberts (1964)
Hootenanny Nurse

He brought a new song to her heart.

THE DISCORD OF ROMANCE

Julie Dodd had become a nurse to be closer to her childhood sweetheart, Dr. David Stace. But what started as a matter of practicality had become an intense dedication.

Now Julie was faced with the biggest decision of her life. Marriage to David would mean a new life in Chicago, with a handsome apartment, a wealthy circle of friends, and plenty of leisure time. Then there was Chad and the promise of love and fame he offered Julie, sharing his roaming, exciting life as a folksinger.

Yet in neither man’s dream was there room for Julie’s nursing career. But in Julie’s heart was there room for anything else?

Best. Nurse. Book. Title. Ever.

It just doesn’t get any better than that…

Hope Farrell, Crusading Nurse

by Suzanne Roberts (1968)
Hope Farrell, Crusading Nurse

Even before she reached her destination in the desolate mountain area of Appalachia, while she was still in the Kentucky lowlands, Hope Farrell, R.N., sensed that the upper region and the people who lived there were somehow different and separate from the folks in town, who did not expert her to last long as a public health nurse. Yet, far from being discouraged, Hope regarded her assignment as an adventure and a challenge. She was ready to accept the poverty, disease and ignorance and to become a one-woman force to abolish it.

Yet it appeared the apathy of the mountain people might be even stronger than her dedication, and that their resentment against the outlander might have lost her the battle even before it was fully joined.

Hospital Corridors

by Mary Burchell (1955)
Hospital Corridors

Madeline felt that she was on the brink of a completely new life when she left England to do a year’s nursing in a great Montreal hospital.

But she found that, after all, she would not be totally among strangers, for she had already met on board ship — though he was said to be so unapproachable — Dr. Lanyon, a distinguished member of the staff; and one of the patients would be the beautiful (but very difficult) Mrs. Sanders whom she had nursed before, with her good-looking and attentive son among the visitors. Still, everything else — except her familiar, well-loved work — would be excitingly new, and she might even have occasion to work for Dr. Lanyon…