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goodreads| Title: Sue Barton, Staff Nurse Author: Helen Dore Boylston Genre: YA, classics Rating: 7/10 # pages: 103 Date read: January, 2008 |
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Summary: This "Sue Barton" story starts with Sue happy at home with Bill and their four children, Tabitha, Johnny, Jerry, and Baby Sue. Life is peaceful. However, all this changes when Bill comes home from a fishing trip, suffering from pneumonia; and once he recovers from this, it is discovered that he has a small case of TB, and must go to a sanitarium for six months. Sue is upset, but decides to cope with the situation by going back to work.
She takes a staff nurse job at Springdale Hospital, and there she does the kind of work she likes best: direct interaction with the patients. There are many humorous vignettes involving the patients. But Sue worries that her fellow staff nurses may not accept her as one of them because she was once Superintendent of Nurses. And how will Su
Review: With the last book in the series, we return to what interests me the most - Sue's work at the hospital. This book is a lot shorter than the others, and seems more like an afterthought than anything else. That didn't stop me from enjoying it though.
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