Book description
If you’re a Sister there’s no such thing as a mistake.
A Sister can hope with any crisis you can imagine. Everyone knows that – patients, nurses and doctors all believe it. Today Helen Davies dons that blue uniform for the first time. She’s proud, excited – and scared. Twenty – eight patients will be in her care. Can she handle it? Because being a Sister isn’t just a job like any other…
Irene Heywood Jones has drawn on eighteen year’s experience in nursing to produce this vivid portrait of a Sister at work. The ordered frenzy of an emergency, the sheer hard labour of routine care, the struggle to meet the patient’s emotional as well as physical needs: the incessant hubbub of hospital activity leaps into life – touched with all the understanding and earthy humour of a woman who sees life – and death – in the raw.
