Cherry Ames Student Nurse (The Cherry Ames Nursing Stories)
by Helen Wells
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Read in March, 2008
I devoured these books when I was in grade school. I wanted to be Cherry Ames—headed off to nursing school on the train, all decked out in a red suit and ready to help people on a “grand and practical scale.” It still sounds pretty good to me.
But rereading this as an adult, I found it to be quite a bit less sophisticated and entertaining as the Sue Barton books, which I recently started reading for the first time. Cherry’s experience feels a little bit less believable and it was ver...more
But rereading this as an adult, I found it to be quite a bit less sophisticated and entertaining as the Sue Barton books, which I recently started reading for the first time. Cherry’s experience feels a little bit less believable and it was ver...more
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Read in January, 2008
18 yr. old Cherry goes off to Spencer Hospital to become a Probationary Student Nurse and earn her cap. She meets new friends (Ann Evans (Serious and Quiet), Gwen Jones (Firey Redheadand Dr.s daughter), Bertha Larson (Farmgirl), Josie Franklin (A born nurse), Mai Lee (Chinese American who lost her family in the war), and Vivian Warren (Cherry's nemesis).They all earn their Student cap after many months of hard work and funny escapades. I loved it. Of course there is the mean old Dr. Wylie and...more
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I devoured this series as a little girl. Curiously, I never really wanted to be a nurse, but I did envy her uniform, which sounded just fabulous! Reading them as an adult, I find that the story holds up very well, so long as you keep it in the context of its time. Lots of WWII era propaganda in the first few books, but I find it enjoyable and sweet. I don't know that young girls today would relate to this series now, but I'm still trying to collect the entire series!
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I love the first three books in this series: Student Nurse, Senior Nurse, and Army Nurse. Unfortunately, after that, Cherry embarks on a quasi-limited Barbie career. This week she's a camp nurse, next week she's a flight nurse and so forth. There's no overriding plot or even characters that continue to show up (save for a few fellow nursing school classmates). Rats.
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Read in February, 2008
I like imagining Cherry living at Westlawn at the UI. Cherry does not talk about needing the occasional cocktail to cope with nursing school... clearly she is of stronger moral fiber than I am. (And when I talk about cocktails, I mean when I'm off duty, of course!!)
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I read these, and all nursing books, obsessively and idolised my aunt who was a nurse, until one day my teacher asked me if I would like to be emptying people's bed pans and wiping their.... That was that. I think I wanted to be an air hostess next.
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Read in July, 2007
I found a 1945 copy of this at a garage sale. I thought it was a sweet, fun, somewhat kitschy portrayal of young women in WWII times. I looked online... only to find it was part of a HUGE series that spanned decades and spawned whole genres.
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Read in January, 1977
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.
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Read in December, 2005
Cherry will never be as good as Sue Barton. For one thing, she apparently couldn't hold a job. Nevertheless, I thought I'd give her one more try. I made it through three before I gave up again.
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Read in January, 2008
A fun book to read as a student nurse, of course, but also interesting as a history of 'nursing technology' - which, boy o boy, has changed drastically in some ways and not at all in others.
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omg, i had forgotten about these! i wanted to be a nurse, too, petra, before i decided to be a doctor. these books were the best.
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Read in June, 2008
Cherry Ames is the Nancy Drew of the medical world. it is good in that gosh darn 40s way
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These books were fun, and I remember enjoying them as a young girl.
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