Annette Brown

Student Nurse May 1966 Annette Brown

This book is a sequel to 'The Most Hateful Child God Ever Put Breath Into'. To be a Student Nurse in 1966 was a brave choice or as in my case one based on ignorance. Student Nurses were paid a tiny amount of money. Not really enough to live on, housed in poor accommodation and expected to work long, exhausting hours with little free time. In spite of having a Labour/Socialist Government in office nothing was done. Somehow I stuck out the three years required to become a State Registered Nurse. It was something I have never regretted, but the living and work conditions at the time blighted my teenage years and early twenties. The book details the training and lifestyle in 1966 to 1969 showing how I survived. Nursing is a vocation just the same as Medicine. I have the utmost admiration for people who work in Hospitals both then and now. I am proud of the fact that once I numbered amongst them.