Jean S.R.N

by Doreen Swinburne

Jean and Diana, two senior nurses of St. Joseph’s Hospital, seem to going through a bad patch. Apart from the fact that they are nervously awaiting the results of their State Finals, they have other worries. Why is Mark Denby so aloof and cool to Jean? Why does Bill Cairns appear anxious to avoid Diana? And why is the examiner at the Hospital Practical hostile towards Jean? As nurses, however, the two girls know that all personal problems must be pushed to the back of their minds when they are on duty and that they must show to the patients at all times a picture of competence and serenity. Eventually all their worries are straightened out and Jean and Diana realise their greatest ambition - to become State Registered Nurses.
Readers of the earlier JEAN books will be delighted to meet many old friends, but the author has also introduced into this new story some fascinating new characters. Doreen Swinburne is not afraid to show that nursing has its serious side as well as its more light-hearted moments, and the result is a faithful picture of that worthwhile and noble profession.
(Dustwrapper blurb from Seagull 1967 edition)

My edition: Seagull library 1967 with dustwrapper
Not known in a pictorial boards edition

Not known in a Children’s Press edition

Seagull Library dustwrapper 1967