Cherry grows from an anxious eighteen-year-old wondering what it would take to earn a cap to a confident, fully-fledged nurse. Through Cherry, the reader gets a feel of the second world war. This book was designed to encourage more girls to join the nursing field, and the author has managed to paint the career in a very positive light. As Cherry becomes more experienced in her field, she realizes that she has to step up and be responsible and sober.
Cherry is a senior nurse now, and she has a first-year nurse to mentor. Cherry is disappointed to be paired with Mildred Burnham, who she finds sullen and dull. However, as the senior nurse and her adoptee get to know each other, Cherry discovers that Mildred is nothing like she seems. However, Cherry quickly discovers that his findings have become common knowledge. Once again, she gets involved in a mystery, this time around, on Penicillin. Who could have stolen Dr.
Together, Cherry and Mildred will work to solve this mystery. It admirable how patriotic Cherry is to her country. We get to see her agonizing on whether to stay and serve from home or join other volunteers in the field.
Before this time comes, Cherry spends her days delivering babies, catching up with dangerous thieves, and simply having the time of her life. Cherry is a likable character. She seems to get along with most of her colleagues and patients. Additionally, Cherry is happy to go beyond the line of duty to help those in need. Unlike other young girls born in this era, Cherry is career-oriented and wastes no time thinking about husbands.
The characters here do enjoy a simpler way of life. Mentions young ladies wearing making up and going to dances. Then you should follow me! Because I have hundreds more just like this one. So Follow or Friend me here on GoodReads! Mar 30, Daisy Paquet rated it it was amazing.
Apr 27, Livesimpleread rated it really liked it. Read all of these as a young girl 12ish and loved them. Similar to Nancy Drew but for a bit older girl. Very clean and written at a time when student nurses were boarded. Sep 24, Molly S rated it it was amazing. I felt like I was reading about my grandmother This book provides an interesting look into the values and ideologies of people at this time, and a look at what hospital-based-training for nurses may have been like.
Feb 06, Barbara Backus added it. I read the entire Cherry Ames series when I was a little girl. I am glad to see that these stories are still being enjoyed today. I've loved reading it and am surprised how much hasn't changed. Used the new student orientation section for our New Student Orientation. Finished the book last week and was struck by how nursing was really the nurse's entire life, as the students stayed in hospital dorms, worked all shifts alone!
I think the public still has that image of nursing, but the profession has changed drasticall Betsy got me the edition of Cherry Ames, Student Nurse for Mother's Day. I think the public still has that image of nursing, but the profession has changed drastically in many ways. We now see so many students who chose nursing because they are likely to have a job and not necessarily a profession. On the other hand, students in Cherry's day assumed the responsibility of a licensed nurse.
You can really pick up the difference between training and education. But setting the philosophical aside, I hear Cherry falls for a doctor in every book. This was a fun read and I hope to read more in the series. View 1 comment. Jun 14, Maria Elmvang rated it liked it Shelves: and-before , , 3-stars , owned-ebook , fiction. How this book managed not to get sued for plagiarism of "Sue Barton - Student Nurse" I will never understand. It is a complete rip-off, right down to even many of the smaller details.
That said, "Sue Barton" is one of my favourite books, so I didn't mind terribly much finding a new 'version' of it, and I still enjoy reading about the life of a student nurse and was sad to have 'run out' of Sue Barton books, so I'll probably find myself reading more of Cherry Ames as it's not bad reading - even if How this book managed not to get sued for plagiarism of "Sue Barton - Student Nurse" I will never understand.
That said, "Sue Barton" is one of my favourite books, so I didn't mind terribly much finding a new 'version' of it, and I still enjoy reading about the life of a student nurse and was sad to have 'run out' of Sue Barton books, so I'll probably find myself reading more of Cherry Ames as it's not bad reading - even if it does seem like cheating ; View all 4 comments.
There are 27 books in the Cherry Ames series and I did read all of them. Cherry Ames, Student Nurse is the first book and we are introduced to Cherry and her friends. The series was started in the early s at the height of WWII and were originally designed to encourage girls to become nurses and join the war effort.
Each story has a set of challenges to conquer and a mystery to solve, in this book Cherry has to convince a grumpy head surgeon she is ok as a nurse and break the rules to save a life. Dec 11, Jennifer Heise rated it liked it. I read this at, maybe, 7 or 8, and adored it. Of course it's very dated and was a piece of propaganda even at the time It was also responsible for my mother and I having our first feminism argument: she didn't want me to want to be a nurse, but a doctor.
I maintained that I wanted to take care of people, and nurses did that; doctors didn't. I realized, later in life, that I lacked the calm and the strong feet for the job Mar 30, Mikayla rated it liked it Shelves: mystry , three-stars. This was probably three and a half stars for me because the first half of the book was really cute but in the second half Cherry developed what she thinks is a love interest, but it turns out not to be.
Then they tried to add in a little mystery which was okay but I didn't feel it worked very well. I might try some of the others though. Feb 01, lia rated it did not like it. A friend recently asked me what the nelliest book I read was when I was little. This surpasses little women, anne of green gables and literally anything else you can think of.
Straight up straight fem propaganda. Jan 08, Emily V rated it it was amazing. I love this book! I would definitely recommend this book! Oct 27, Lea Kielsholm rated it liked it. Jeg blev ikke skuffet, for mine forventninger var meget lave. I had never seen or heard of this series but it looked like the Nancy Drew series, which I loved growing up.
The first thing I noticed was that the book was an early edition and produced during wartime complying with the government standards for conservation of materials. This tidbit sparked good discussion on it's own. I enjoyed the book, very wholesome and appropriate for all ages. We were amused by the conflict Cherry had with an older doctor that kept insisting she "take off that rogue" as it was not allowed in his hospital.
In the day of tattoos, facial piercings and colored hair it was a good reminder that "we've come a long way baby". Feb 10, Jane Irish Nelson rated it really liked it Shelves: children-young-adult , contemporary. Cherry Ames wants to be a nurse, partly due to the influence of Dr. Joseph Fortune, the family friend who delivered her and her twin brother, Charlie.
But as she begins her training at Spencer School of Nursing she wonders if she is really cut out for nursing, especially when she encounters problems, or falls afoul of one of the doctors. But she perseveres in spite of everything, including a mysterious patient in a secret room. The girls in her class are a broad spectrum; however, except for a C Cherry Ames wants to be a nurse, partly due to the influence of Dr. The girls in her class are a broad spectrum; however, except for a Chinese-American girl, they are all white, reflecting the period when this book was originally published Despite this, and the changes in the nursing profession, this is still an interesting and enjoyable book, since people don't change.
There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. Young Adult. About Helen Wells. Helen Wells. Original name: Helen Weinstock. Social worker turned full-time young adult writer, born in Illinois but moved with family to New York City when she was seven.
In Wells graduated from New York University [where she'd been the first female editor of the literary quarterly], with a major in philosophy and a minor in sociology and psychology. Author of Cherry Ames, Nurse books, a series for young teens.
She was also the author of the Vicki Barr books, about a young mystery-solving flight attendant. Shelve Cherry Ames, Veterans' Nurse. Book 7. Book 8. Cherry reunites with her old Spencer classmates--G… More. Shelve Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse. Book 9. Shelve Cherry Ames, Cruise Nurse. Book Cherry returns to Spencer to work in the new child… More.
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Greenwish Village is a far cry from Hi There she finds a formula that when recontructed to its exact specifications produces a perfume that saves the sch Cherry's first aid center is adjacent to the antiques department of a large department store, where a series of thefts have pointed the finger of suspicion at a young, recently widowed employee.
But Cherry's instincts say otherwise, and her tenacity Cherry Ames accepts one of the most interesting jobs of her nursing career when she accepts an assignment at Camp Blue Water, nestled close by a Pennsylvania mountain lake.
Whether it is helping twelve-year-old Katy to become a welcome member of One of the strangest cases of Cherry Ames' absorbing career comes her way while working as a staff nurse at Hilton Hospital in her home town. A young man, victim of a highway accident, is brought to Emergency with a broken leg.
Shortly after he is ad Little does Nurse Cherry realize when distinguished Sir Ian Barclay is rushed by his nephew Lloyd to Hilton Hospital that her newest case will carry her north to misty, sea-beaten Balfour Island, off the rugged coast of wind-swept Newfoundland.
When Cherry Ames learns that the new patient in her ward is using the proceeds from her deceased husband's life insurance to speculate in stock, she judges her foolish.
And when the young woman explains the Pell Corporation investment program, Cherry Cherry's job as nurse to the well-known historical novelist Martha Logan would be an exciting assignment for any young and pretty RN. And it is doubly exciting for Cherry, for when the author goes to England to do research for her next book, Cherry g When Cherry Ames is offered a temporary assignment to help establish a health clinic in a small native African village, she sees it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Not only will she be visiting a strange and exciting part of the world--but, more As a doctor's office nurse in New York City, Cherry Ames faces new challenges and makes some extraordinary new friends.
First in importance is her dynamo of an employer, Dr.
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