Ooh Matron!

Name: Ooh Matron!
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Sarah Jane Butfield

Sept 2015 · The Nomadic Nurse Series Book 1 · Rukia Publishing

5.0

3 reviews

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Sarah Jane has no career aspirations, all she wants is to leave school, work as a cashier at Woolworths and get married. Then everything changes and she finds herself wearing a fluorescent pink uniform and studying to get into Nursing School. What inspired this surprising change of direction? What happens when she leaves home to live in a garrison town with a housemate who is a party animal? The big question being, is she really cut out to be a nurse? Let's start at the beginning with Sarah Jane as a sixteen-year-old country girl, a bit old fashioned but who has a mischievous sense of humour and who suddenly decides she wants to be a nurse!

"This funny, yet poignant nursing memoir has Sarah Jane's trademark honest writing style which shines through in every story she tells. From starting her student nurse training in Essex to coping with patients in happy, sad and heart-breaking situations. It gives you a young woman's view into the realities of entering the world of nursing in the 1980’s. A highly entertaining and informative memoir which was able to take me from laughing out loud to having welled tears of empathy." S. Brewster

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5.0

3 reviews

Shontae Wright

15 September 2015

This funny, yet poignant nursing memoir has Sarah Jane's trademark honest writing style which shines through in every story she tells. From starting her student nurse training in Essex to coping with patients in happy, sad and heart-breaking situations. It gives you a young woman's view into the realities of entering the world of nursing in the 1980’s. A highly entertaining and informative memoir which was able to take me from laughing out loud to having welled tears of empathy.

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rob hannaforw

20 September 2015

My wife bought this and I spotted it and read a little to see what she was so engrossed in. I was hooked immediately and when she finished I had to read the whole book myself. Set in the 1980's it captures the time perfectly and as a non nurse I learned a lot, cringed a little, but loved it!

Anil Das

1 December 2023

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About the author

Sarah Jane, the roving Florence Nightingale, fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a nurse and went on to use her nursing and later teaching qualifications to take her around the world. She is now an international best-selling author of three travel memoirs set in Australia and France. In addition, she released Book 1, The Accidental Author, from her new 'What, Why, Where, When, Who & How of Book Promotion Series' for aspiring and debut self published authors in February 2015 with Book 2, The Amateur Authorpreneur which was released in May 2015.

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