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Born in Belfast, Patricia Jordan left for England to train as a nurse in the 1940s and District nurse is her moving and humorous account of life as a visiting nurse in a small English town. She leaves behind a close-knit family and a failed romance in Ireland to begin training in Barnet and Middlesex. She early on treats a patient who eventually becomes her husband and means that she accepts a job in the north of England that takes her first by bicycle and then in an unreliable little car, into the homes of the people who need her care. In District nurse, she brings to life everyone she…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2012Orion · 218 pages · 9781409138709
- Other · English · 1977Weidenfeld and Nicolson · 176 pages · 9780297773559
- Other · English · 1977St. Martin's Press · 176 pages · 9780312213589
NursesPublic health nursingPublic health nursesBiographyPersonal narrativesHistory of NursingNurses, biographyGreat britain, biography