Every moment is an emergency when you’re training to be a nurse!

In nursing school, every day was plagued with the constant pressure of life-and-death crises, the unrelenting fear of failing the patient, the frantic pulse of the hospital heartbeat. Student nurse Carol Welles was determined to become a self-assured professional, but she was a woman as well, who wanted her relationship with medical student Duane Duran to become something more permanent.

From Obstetrics to Intensive Care, from her first injection to her first catheterization, Carol tried to cut down on human suffering…and caused her personal life to suffer at the same time. She was in the field of saving lives…could she discover how to save her own life, too?

Nurse Carol and Dr. Mike were about to build a life together, but an intruder from their past appeared, intent upon destroying that life before it began.

Nurse Carol Bliss was finally going to marry the man she had loved for years, Dr. Mike Conway. On the eve of their wedding, an evil intruder threw their plans into chaos. Out of the past came Carol’s own sister, beautiful Nurse Beth, suddenly returning to reclaim Dr. Mike, her ex-husband. Greed drove Nurse Beth to infamous schemes. And Dr. Mike, in order to protect his child, fell prey to all these schemes. Can Dr. Mike and his beloved Carol, forced into a strange intrigue, come out with their love intact?

A major problem of the staff of the City Core Hospital was saving the lives of would-be suicides; a second problem was keeping the revived patients from trying again — and again. Nurse Iva Loring had an inner drive that had taken her through school and training at top speed — and straight into a nervous breakdown. Now she was being eased back into work as a stand-by nurse.

Clearly she had a special empathy with the depressed and the discouraged, so she was put on the suicide detail. But there was some question as to whether or not she was too understanding, too involved, to be effective; and whether it would not be better for both her and the patients if she gave up her career and married the druggist in the hospital dispensary.

If only Staff Nurse Sally Nesbitt could have fallen in love with nice young reporter Mike Amberton, instead of carrying a torch for the surgeon Curtis Palmer, in company with all the other nurses at the General Hospital!

To Judith Morely, Cranford was more than just a hospital where she made her living at a job she liked. Cranford was a refuge and a haven and Judith had no thought of ever leaving it to face marriage, men, or the world.

Judith had never known her father. Her mother had died when she was very young. She was brought up by her Aunt Hepsie in near-poverty, and it had been drummed into her over and over again that her father had forsaken his wife and child, that men were monsters not to be trusted, that she had a bad heritage and could never expect to amount to anything or live down the stigma. No one at Cranford knew about that past, or cared. Judith was well liked, an efficient nurse, an important part of the staff.

Then young Dr. Larry Booth tried to break down her reserve. He said he loved her. He said he wanted to marry her. She didn’t want to fall in love with him and she didn’t want to believe him. But gradually, she found she was beginning to do both. And Rufus Grant said he loved her and said he wanted to marry her. She felt sure she didn’t want to fall in love with him, but she did believe he was honest. And one evening, when she discovered that Dr. Booth really wasn’t trustworthy, she almost came to believe that Aunt Hepsie had been right. But Rufus Grant showed her why that wasn’t true.