Four girls – Debbie, Sian, Jemima and Jane – were first year student nurses at Nile Street general hospital and had become firm friends, though they came from very different backgrounds. The girls were delighted when the discovered the nickname for first year students – Nightingales.
Trainee nurses at St. Margaret’s EE were known as Nightingales. The series follows several of these trainees Smiley Smith, Betsy Cloud, Fiona Kennedy and Edna Pierce who had all met when they started their training. Edna doesn’t fit in with the rest of the girls and tries to cheat on her final exams. She is replaced by Lee Lan. The girls return in sequels. In “Nightingales 4” the friends have gone their separate ways after their training is complete, but they come together again to try and stop the closure of St. Margarets.
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Soap opera concerning four first-year student nurses (Verity, Amanda, Jackie and Kay) at Norchester General Hospital. The girls return in later series and are joined by another student – Chris.
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Val Martin, has her first nursing job, acting as relief nurse in the Storr Valley area, while the regular nurse is house bound with an injured leg. The people in the valley are set in their ways and have a hard time accepting Val but she sets about proving herself.
(Val of the Valley – 1960s)
(Val of the Valley – 1975)
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When Nurse Mary Travers returned from the Crimean War she set up her own hospital for needy children, helped by Liza Parkin.
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