5/31/2023 0 Comments Cherry ames senior nurse 1944![]() ![]() Wells graduated from New York University in 1934, having become the first female editor of NYU's literary quarterly. The nurses are to see that patients recover to the point where, with on-site rehabilitation and vocational guidance, they will secure "useful and self-sufficient futures." Helen Wells surely had a mission that went beyond diverting pre-teen and teenage girls. ![]() ![]() To that point in the series authored by Helen Wells, Cherry Ames has nursed in the Pacific and European "theaters of war." In this sequel, she is assigned to an orthopedic hospital where nurses are "to mend spirits as well as bodies," in a wholly 1940s non-sensual way, to be sure. The admonition comes early on in this 1946 Juvenile novel. ![]() Army Nursing Corps) should probably be emblazoned on signs in every corridor of every VA hospital. Brown's greeting to newly-arrived Lieutenant Cherry Ames, R.N. That stern admonition was delivered, with extra gruffness, by white-haired Colonel Winifred Brown, "an old crosspatch" whose x-ray eyes radiated a grim no-nonsense glare, which even unnerved generals. Our job is to rebuild broken men, physically and mentally. "The Army has a responsibility to cure its wounded men and make them fit to earn their living again. ![]()
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