Yes Sister, No Sister
My Life as a Trainee Nurse in 1950s Yorkshire

Loved this book brought back so many memories although I trained in the 80's not the 50's we had the nightingale wards where you could see all patients, the metal bed pans that were freezing cold ,we rubbed meths into heels to prevent then getting sore , the night sister rounds where you had to kn......more

This book brought back memories for me. After my sister and I were out of the house, my mother went into nurses’ training. This was in the 1950s in Canada. Many things were similar between Craig’s training and my mother’s. I remember visiting my mother in the nursing residence and taking tours of th......more

Three and a half stars. Growing up in the 1960s in a small rural town, there were three positions that "nice" single girls trained for: secretary, nurse, or teacher. I grew up around a lot of nurses, amongst them my eldest sister, my aunt, and my notorious black-sheep Great-aunt Stel, who "specialled......more

This was the perfect book for me. I did my nursing training in the early 1970s but it brought back so many happy memories and some scary ones too. The day before I read the chapter mentioning the patient who had burst her abdomen I had related the same situation to my partner. Beautifully written an......more

Absolutely brilliant. I enjoyed every word on the pages of this book. Recommended.......more