Product Description

‘When the Nightingale Sang’ gives a wonderful insight into a nurse’s life in the 1950s and 1960s. It is a fascinating account of the time when items were always brought on a tray or trolley, nothing was disposable and everything needed scrubbed and sterilised before re-use, and more time seemed to be spent by a nurse polishing furniture and bedpans than caring for her patients.

This story is far more than about nursing though. It follows one young woman growing up in the era when Rock and Roll bursts onto the scene. As she struggles to juggle her career and love life in the days before Women's Lib, a young nurse watches the world go through amazing changes.

The peace movement gathers momentum, Martin Luther King dreams of a future of racial harmony, and the first man goes into space. Then Doris Day is knocked off the charts by The Beatles. ‘When the Nightingale sang’ is a burst of nostalgia not just for nurses, but for all lovers of the 1950s and 1960s.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73307 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Synopsis
'When the Nightingale Sang' gives insight into a nurse's life in the 1950s and 1960s.

About the Author
Cynthia O'Neill started her SRN training in 1956 at Hammersmith Hospital, London, at a time when the NHS was at its peak and a nurse was not allowed to speak unless spoken to.

After qualifying, Cynthia went on to do her midwifery training at Queen Charlottes' and Thorpe Coombe Hospitals in London.

Finally, after Queen's Nurse and Health Visitor Training, Sister Carstairs went to work as a Distict Nursing Sister in East Sussex in 1961.