Sixty Years a Nurse
- Author Mary Hazard
- Narrator Deirdre O'Connell
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Run Time 8 hours and 2 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: science, technology and medicine, History of medicine, Medicine: general issues, Memoirs, Nostalgia: general, Nurse/patient relationship, Nursing fundamentals and skills, Nursing management and leadership, Nursing research and theory, Nursing sociology, Nursing specialties.
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What to expect
When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse’s training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later – one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.
For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking and life-changing experience. Against a backdrop of ongoing rationing and poverty, she saw for the first time the horrors of disease, the heart-breaking outcomes of failed abortions – and faced the genuine shock of seeing a man naked for the first time!
60 Years a Nurse follows the dramas and emotions as Mary found her feet during those early years. From the firm friends she made under the ever-watchful gaze of Matron and the sisters, to the eclectic mix of Londoners she strove to care for; the Teddy Boys she danced with and the freedom of living away from home; and her own burgeoning love story, as extraordinary as it was romantic – these are the funny and heartwarming moments that helped Mary to follow her dream.
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