Call Me Sister: District Nursing Tales from the Swinging

Call Me Sister: District Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

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 find that the drama on district can demand instant reaction; and without hospital back up, she's usually the one having to provide it. She meets a rich cast of patients all determined to follow their own individual star, and goes to Edinburgh where Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute's nurse training is considered the crÃ¨me de la crÃ¨me of the district nursing world. Call Me Sister recalls Jane's challenging and often hilarious route to realising her own particular dream.

Call Me Sister: District Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties