Archive (14 life histories found)

After primary school I attended The Sacred Heart Intermediate school in Armagh for a year and passed the review examination which meant I could go on to the Grammar of the Sacred Heart the following year. My best friend Leontia Nugent did the same…

I was the third of six children one died at a few months. We were always told we had a brother an angel. Daddy was a tailor and employed another man Jim Dolan (a lovely man) who lived down at the lake. He would bring us a big bag of apples when…

A Menu for the 25 Year Nursing College Reunion Dinner in 2000 at The Four Seasons, Co. Monaghan.

A certificate from The College of Mental Health Nursing for Care of the Mentally Ill in the Community.

A certificate awarded in 1984 from The National Board for Nursing Care of Mentally Ill in the Community.

A certificate awarded in 1979 for the Mental Part of the Register of Nurses from the Southern Area Group School of Nursing.

A certificate awarded in 1978 from the Southern Area Group School of Nursing.

Retired 1987, 31st May, thirty - seven years in the Belfast City Hospital and Jubilee Maternity Hospital. Some of the staff I worked with had a small party, a cup of tea and some good chat and reminiscence of good times. I felt very sad, had no idea…

During our training we all lived in the Nurses' Home. We enjoyed great comradeship, we would have got together at night in someone's room or the sitting room, to discuss our day, to tell each other if we had a patient with a special condition. The…

I will always remember the day the sister asked me to take the TPRs - temperature, pulse and respiration. I had been shown how to do it. The thermometer tray is on the cabinet at the end of the ward. 'Have you been shown how to chart TPRs Nurse?_�…