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  • Midwife on Call

    by Agnes Light ...
    Agnes Light trained as a nurse in the 1960s and went on to become a midwife - helping to bring new lives into the world for over thirty years.After fainting from shock at the first birth she attended as a student, Agnes grew to adore her job and the lifelong friends that worked with her on the maternity ward. In her enchanting memoir, she recalls how she struggled at first with the strict rules of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • It Won't Hurt a Bit

    Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

    by Jane Yeadon ...
    When Jane Yeadon decided that she wanted to become a nurse, the Swinging Sixties had arrived in style. But before her training the nearest she got to anything swinging was the udder of the cow on their farm in the north-east of Scotland. It was time to leave for the bright lights and some modern life. It Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of Jane's journey from the farm she loved and the schoolwork she ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Memoirs of a Psych Nurse and Other Stories

    by Sue Mitzel Tourtelot ...
    These are stories from my varied Nursing career. Some are funny,some are sad and some are downright scary. All of them are true.The individuals in my stories, very in age from twelve to sixty-five years. However, many of them are about adolescents whom I dearly loved interacting with.I've come to know and respect hundreds of patients/clients and have learned so much from them. I wish to thank each ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Nursing Stories: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journey

    by Pedus C. Eweama ...
    Each of us has at least once in our lifetime come into contact with nurses of all backgrounds, whether in the course of being cared for or while they care for our family and friends. More often than not, we have seen nurses as what they truly are: compassionate professionals who often go above and beyond the call of duty in an unequivocally selfless manner. But not many of us have taken time to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Call Nurse Millie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 1 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    'A delightful, well researched story that really does depict nursing and the living conditions in the East End at the end of the war' Lesley PearseLondon is putting itself back together and twenty-five-year-old Millie is at the forefront of the effort as she tends to the East End community around her.While she witnesses tragedy and brutality in her job, Millie also finds strength and kindness as ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Children's Nurse

    The True Story of a Great Ormond Street Nurse

    by Susan Macqueen ...
    The memoir of a Great Ormond Street nurse.This is the inspirational story of life as a nurse during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, most of which was spent at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.Susan Macqueen was 12 years old when she accompanied her mum to see her friend Ms Fairweather, the matron at the local nursing home and from that day on she knew she wanted to be a nurse. A few years later, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Bundles of Joy

    Two Thousand Miracles. One Unstoppable Manchester Midwife

    by Linda Fairley ...
    The second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Linda Fairley.‘No matter how many babies I deliver, each and every one is a miracle, connecting me to the world like nothing else, reminding me that we are all equal in the beginning, and in the end. It’s a great leveller, childbirth.’It’s January 1972 and times have changed since Linda first stepped onto a maternity ward four years earlier. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Midwife’s Here!

    The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain’s Longest Serving Midwives

    by Linda Fairley ...
    The Sunday Times bestseller‘Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new life, there’s honestly nothing like it… I’ve since brought more than 2,200 babies into the world, and I still tingle with excitement every time.’It’s the summer of 1968 and St Mary’s Maternity Hospital in Manchester is a place from a ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Call Me Sister

    District Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

    by Jane Yeadon ...
    Who'd have thought a missing bacon rasher and a teaspoon would play a part in advancing someone's career? It's the late '60s and Jane Yeadon has always wanted to be a district nurse. Staff nursing in a ward where she's challenged by an inventorydriven ward sister, she reckons it's time to swap such trivialities for life as a district nurse. Independent thinking is one thing, but Jane's about to ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Angels on the Night Shift

    Inspirational True Stories from the ER

    by Robert D. Lesslie ...
    Combined sales of over 250,000 copies demonstrate the terrific impact Robert Lesslies first three books have had on readers. In Angels on the Night Shift, the fourth book based on his 30 years experience in the ER, Dr. Lesslie draws open the curtain on the lives, the dramas, and the close human connections hidden away behind hospital walls—events that, day and night, reveal nurses, doctors, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives

    Tales of Life and Death from the ER

    by Pamela Grim ...
    With unflinching honesty, an ER doctor tells readers what it's really like to be a caring physician with one of the most demanding, exhilarating, frustrating, and rewarding jobs in the world.An emergency medicine physician for nearly a decade, Dr. Pamela Grim has delivered babies, treated heart attacks, saved car accident victims, comforted the dying, and consoled the living who were left behind. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea

    by Tom Reynolds ...
    What happens behind closed (ambulance) doorsMeet Tom, an Emergency Medical Technician for the London Ambulance service. It is Tom who shows up to pick up the drunk tramp, the heart attack victim and the pregnant woman who wants to go to hospital in an ambulance because she doesn't want to call a taxi. Tom is also a man who rails against the unfairness of it all, who bemoans the state of the NHS ... Read more

    $1.49 USD