Title Apprentice in black stockings : an Australian nursing memoir / Norma Sim

Published Chatswood, N.S.W. : New Holland, 2010 Chatswood, New South Wales : New Holland, 2010

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Description 239 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm Summary A personal memoir of nursing training in the 1950s. This is the story of Norma and the other trainee nurses interspersed with historiacl flashbacks to the life of Lucy Osburn and her five Florence Nightingale nurses who came to Sydney in 1868 to set up what at the time was a revolutionary nursing practice Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 237) Subject Osburn, Lucy, 1835-1891. Sim, Norma. Sydney Hospital -- History. Sydney Hospital. Nurses -- Australia -- Biography. Nurses -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography Nursing -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History Nursing -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History. Nurses. History of Nursing. History, 19th Century. History, 20th Century. Hospitals -- history. SUBJECT New South Wales. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009517 New South Wales. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009517 Genre/Form Personal Narrative. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. ISBN 9781741109634 (paperback)

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