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Of Sluices and Sisters: Anecdotes of Student Nurses at a London Teaching Hospital Follows the trials and tribulations of a set of student nurses training at an elitist Teaching Hospital in the 1960's as they deal with legendary ward sisters, petty rules, challenging patients, and eccentric doctors. It includes many stories - some poignant, many very amusing - which give an insight into what nurse training was like in those days.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I very much enjoyed reading this book. Some of the anecdotes had me laughing out loud. My mother is a retired R.N. who did her nurse's training during the 1950's at a hospital in San Francisco. It was interesting to compare the stories in this book to stories my mother told of her training. Anyone would find this book amusing, even without any previous knowledge of medicine.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I would recommend this not only to those of us who remember "old-style" nursing, but to those who could not even imagine it. This was one of the last "Sets" of nurses (in the late sixties) to undergo the full rigours of tradional Bart's training - petty restrictions and an exhausting life, but as this account shows(with contributions from other members of the "Set"), high standards of discipline, skill and commitment. Not only an entertaining read, but a fascinating reminder of a vanished era.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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A very amusing insight into a world that I only had glimpses of, being a patient as a child in a local hospital in London. Certainly not 'Bart's' but I can imagine the Sister of the Ward may possibly have trained there. Alison Collins' anecdotes had me chuckling along to the antics of her and her friends and the stories of their encounters. A good read!
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And I was there too!
I was the Jan 63 set at Barts. Such fun to read this book,so many forgotten details and all exactly as it really was.If only nurses today had our training. Read more
Published 2 months ago by no
memories
I trained as a nurse in the sixties at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and this book brought so many memories flooding back. Read more
Published 15 months ago by chief babs
of sluices and sisters
Having trained at a different London teaching hospital at the same time as Alison Collin, I am thrilled with this book. Read more
Published 16 months ago by roseann anderson
I was there too!
I read this with great interest. I only had to read the first page to realise that I knew Alison. She was in the set below mine in 1965 and I met up with her before we both... Read more
Published 19 months ago by CF
Of Sluices and Sisters
This is a cracking book which I so enjoyed because it brought back, as if yesterday, the experience of being a student nurse in the late 60's in a London teaching hospital. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Easilyconfused
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