#nurse england

[shehetonmytalia]

i hate him so much like he makes me wanna throw up fuck this guy (i wont him so badly)

[nedlittle]

need the historical romance girlies to go back to their roots and read forever amber (1944)

[henk-heijmans]

Mobile Unit and Red Cross nurses at an ARP centre in Southgate keep warm and keep fit with a game of leapfrog, WW II, England - by A. R. Tanner, English

[semioticapocalypse]

Anonymous. Nurses clearing debris from one of the wards in St. Peter's Hospital. Stepney, East London. April 19, 1941.

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[uwmspeccoll]

(Not So) Steamy Saturday

"The times had brought changes to Whitebridge. Could Jane Weaver, R.N., take up her old life and duties. . . ?"

"'Jane, I'd like you to meet Dr. Boyd Daves. . . .' It took all of Jane's poise to cover her surprise. For the handsome man smiling politely at her from behind the wheel was black."

"A new black doctor had introduced the racial question . . . and Jane found not the threads of her old life but a new challenge to her heart."

Of the 500+ nurse romance novels from the 1940s to the early 1970s in our collection, it is rare to find one with African American main characters, let alone having them depicted on the cover, and even rarer are interracial relationships. In our collection, the nurse romances that do were all published after Civil Rights legislation of the mid-1960s. Such is the case this pulp novel, Homecoming Nurse by Rose Dana (one of the many pseudonyms for prolific pulp-fiction writer W.E.D. Ross, 1912-1995), published in New York by Lancer Books in 1968.

With the novel showcasing many of the social taboos of the time -- divorce, a small New England town forced to come to terms with contemporary racial issues, racially-exclusive country clubs, interracial relationships, mental illness, the village ice queen chasing after a married man -- we thought it would have the makings of a fairly steamy plot. But, alas, its narrative is plodding and pedestrian with barely a wisp of steam. Disappointing. To its credit, however, with the entire town fretting over the potential of miscegenation, the story does culminate in an interracial engagement (between the main character Jane's friend Maggie and Dr. Boyd, not Jane herself). Getting there, however, is tedious and about as exciting as an ice cream parlor on a sleepy New England main street.

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[theworldatwar]

Nurses and convalescent aircrew take some time outside at Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Hospital - Halton in Buckinghamshire, England 1943

[anything-but-predictable]

Thank you Lord sa swabe at kalmadong weekend duty 🥰🙏🏻✨

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Nanny McPhee (2005, Kirk Jones)

24/09/2024

[starlightshadowsworld]

The Lucy Letby situation is fucked for so many reasons.

Because the actual shit she did was fucked, she's a serial killer, a child murderer.

And the news is like oh she was an English rose.

She didn't have the face of a murderer.... What do child murderers look like? 🤨

Because last I checked, the only nurses that have killed kids in thus country were white women.

And her friends and family being like oh she was so sweet, never angry, never mean oh we'll miss her so much.

"I'll stand with her no matter what? 🥺"... The fuck?!

I have dropped people for less.

And people sympathising with her crying in court like oh poor dear....

She killed 7 babies, you know who the poor dears are the babies!

The parents and families of those poor innocent babies.

God the power of white woman tears is something else.

And for anyone who's like don't bring race into this, you think there'd be this much sympathy if she was black or brown?

Bitch literally wrote a note saying "I'm evil I did this" and there are people who can't believe "an innocent women" could do such evil.

[phantom-wolf]

@hetalia-rarepairweek

Day 3: Apocalypse

Title: Starving off Her breadcrumbs

Ship: Arthur Kirkland x Elizabeth I // Arthur Kirkland x Elizabeth I x Alfred F. Jones

Cowritten with: @the-engdyssey

Summary: He vaguely heard Reg's introduction as he watched a young woman headbutt and break the windshield of a nearby car. In a desperate bid to escape, the occupant, a middle aged man, fumbled with the car door, spilling out onto the pavement. But not before the woman had latched onto him, her head turned sideways as she lunged once more, her mouth clamping down on the man's arm.

Then came the countdown.

Here comes a herd of zebras! One. With a ferocity she tore her head back, stripping the man of flesh and muscle as she did so. More akin to a bear ripping into the carcass of an elk than anything human.

Two. The female left him after she'd taken a few chunks out of his arm, her attention stolen by another passerby that had run too close. The man's arm was twitching uncontrollably, spasming from what Alfred had assumed was pain. He couldn't bring himself to look away. What the fuck?

Three. The Marine urged his family to move quicker as he noticed the body on the ground convulsing. Worse now. It wasn't just arm twitches anymore, his whole body was convulsing-

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[bowling-with-ham]

me approximately 3 days ago, deep in my goes wrong era, listening to the mischief makers pod and getting to ep 5: who the FUCK is harry kershaw

me today one full season of MMNI later: alright mischief makers pod tell me everything about my new best friend harry kershaw

[breads-voice]

Nurses are not heroes.

That was a dangerous narrative perpetuated by the government and media at the height of Covid. It prevents them from being seen as human with human needs. Now it’s being used by the same media and government to justify the horrendous working conditions and pressure they are being put under.

Nurses stay unpaid after every shift to help their patients and colleagues. That’s great! Nurses are heroes ❤️

Nurses working through their breaks to help their patients. That’s great! Nurses are heroes. ❤️

Nurses are dealing with unalive and traumatic situations every day. Nurses are heroes ❤️

Nurses get beaten and abused on shift by patients and relatives but it’s ‘part of the job’. Nurses are heroes ❤️

There is nothing heroic about a person not getting adequate rest between shifts. An exhausted nurse should not be looking after anybody other than themselves. They are human.

There’s nothing heroic about a person not being able to provide themselves with adequate nutrition or hydration. They are human.

There is nothing heroic about not receiving proper support or acknowledgment of the trauma they go through every day. Same with assistants and paramedics. They’re still human.

There is nothing heroic about being black and blue by a patient or stalked by a relative and having to see them the next day. Not being able to do anything about it because it’s seen as ‘part of the role’.

There is a massive difference between ‘knowing what you’re getting into’ as a newly qualified nurse and treating them with disrespect, running them into the ground and expecting them to be ok with not having their basic needs met for the needs of the general public.

The nurses wages do not reflect their working conditions or the trauma they experience and have to heal from. They are human and grieve for their patients too. They don’t reflect that this a vocation requiring a degree. That nurses don’t just ‘make beds’, they insert tubes down peoples throats to breathe for them, take chest drains out, keep people alive with complex concoctions of medications they’ve mixed. And so much more.

The NHS has relied on the generosity of its nurses and assistant staff for too long. That generosity is wearing out. What we are being put through isn’t worth our wages anymore.

Stop advertising nurses as heroes and force the public and parliament to see us as the humans we are.

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

2007

And there's more! Including their cover of The Sonics' Santa Claus (the original was recorded in 1965).

I posted of photo of Julie Hamper (aka Nurse Julie - Billy Childish's wife) a member of Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians Of The British Empire, over @vintageblackandwhiteportraits.

[henk-heijmans]

Soldiers and nurses lost in the maze at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, 1940 - by F. Carassale, Italian

[totallyhussein-blog]

After clapping for the carers during lockdown, what now for the NHS?

As Keir Starmer is set to warn that "things will get worse" in the UK before they get better, Channel 4 have highlighted reports of care workers being ripped off, abused and exploited here in the UK.

The Royal College of Nursing is calling on the government to launch a full and urgent investigation, and to work on policy solutions to eradicate these practices. Here is the report.

And despite paying income tax and national insurance, NHS nurses from overseas are being “pushed into poverty” because of rules that deprive many people coming to work in the UK of welfare benefits for five years after they arrive.

A Royal College of Nursing report, based on a survey of more than 3,000 foreign nurses, warns that the policy “punishes” people for coming to work in the UK and is “risking a mass exodus of international nursing staff” from the NHS.

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

There is love, tender and tempestuous. . . .

Curt Wiley, a handsome Texas engineer, came to town. . . .

Judy hated Curt the moment she met him. . . .

Then, . . . Judy discovered that Curt was not the playboy he appeared to be . . . but a decent sensitive human being . . . who seemed to be falling in love with her.

Judy found herself head over heels in love!

Suddenly, Neal Bentley seemed dull and uninteresting to Judy.

By spring she had made a decision . . . a decision that was as much a surprise to Judy as it will be to you.

A surprise? Really? The promotional blurbs project the ending before we even get to the first chapter:

I told you . . . I wasn't worth it. I'm not the steady sort -- say, like your friend, Neal Bentley. . . . I won't make any girl a very good husband. Bentley seems like the right sort for you. . . . She had to choose between the rootlessness of a life as a construction man's wife, or the steady, homespun love of her childhood sweetheart. . . .

A surprise? Neal Bentley, hint, hint. This is staid New England in the 1950s, after all, where:

"When the sap runs in the maple grove . . . that's spring in New England. Spring always comes after the snow -- after the storm.". . Love like Neal's could guarantee that, no matter what came, spring or storm, . . their love -- would never change.

Indeed, there's definitely more sap than steam in New England Nurse by the prolific nurse romance novelist Adelaide Humphries (a pseudonym for Adelaide Morris Rowe, 1898-1979), first published in pulp paperback by Avon Books in 1956. We do appreciate the cover art, however, with its chilly color palate, asymmetrical design, and the nurse who looks, as our intern Ana observed, "like she's so over it, but at the same time still into it." We wish we knew who the cover artist was. And then there's that keen observation about regional differences: "I'm a Texan, not a New Englander. A roamer, not a rock." And there you have it, in a nutshell.

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