Physical description

Hardback book with olive green, blue, red and white cover and writing. Cover has sepia image of two nurses working in a hospital ward, one talking to a patient in a bed. Has intact dust jacket.

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

Alfred nurses have always been at the forefront of their profession - ready and willing to meet stringent training programs, war, fire, makeshift wards for epidemics and rapidly changing developments in medical science and technology.
This is their story.
The strength of the camaraderie shown among Alfred nurses at the celebrations that followed the graduation of the final group of trainees from the Alfred's School of Nursing led Helen Paterson to write this book. She follows the history of the Alfred nurses from the establishment of the Alfred Hospital in 1971, and the beginning of nurse training in 1880, to reveal the hardships, pleasures and intrigues shared by Alfred nurses in the past 130 years of history. (From inside front of dust jacket)

1. Planning
2. Arriving
3. Training
4. Complaining
5. Revealing
6. Serving
7. Progressing
8. Defending
9. Uniting
10. Improving
11. Combating
12. Returning
13. Maintaining
14. Developing
15. Changing