Runaway Girl A Nurse Story edition by Lois Gerber Literature Fiction eBooks
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Fifteen-year-old Connie Sinclair runs away from home and the father who is abusing her. It’s 1924, a tough world for a single girl without food or a place to live. Connie is resourceful and boards a train taking her to a big city where she hopes to make a life for herself. She meets many interesting characters along the way, one of them a nurse who inspires her to enter a hospital nurses training program. To do this she lies about her age and education but gets room and board in exchange for hours of long, hard and tedious work.
In her two years there, Connie learns a lot-how to care for patients, treatments for common diseases, and how to get along with all types of people. A hospital fire brings the false life she has created for herself to the surface.
Runaway Girl A Nurse’s Story reveals the strength and resiliency of nurses, traits that have identified the profession from time immemorial.
Runaway Girl A Nurse Story edition by Lois Gerber Literature Fiction eBooks
Love, love this book! Connie Sinclair’s journey as a young girl of sixteen shows how with determination and grit she can discover her true calling, overcoming heart-wrenching obstacles in her path. A girl coming of age, a girl faced with difficult challenges, struggling as she runs away from an abusive father. Running, she meets people, both good and bad, who shape her destiny—to be a nurse.This is a book for all ages—mothers give this book to your teenage daughters for inspiration, grandmothers to your granddaughters.
I’m not a nurse, but Runaway Girl, A Nurse’s Story, gripped my heart from the first page to the last. A must read.
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Runaway Girl A Nurse Story edition by Lois Gerber Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
it's a wonderful story and you are hooked from the beginning and as the story winds through Western PA, the places and times bring you back to a past when nursing was a compassionate and service oriented field, and the diseases they faced then that are no longer because of our vaccinations. Detail oriented, wonderful story line. Can't wait for the next book to appear. Lynne Yeiser Fauth
I was gripped by the story immediately---couldn't put it down! I found myself rooting for Connie Sinclair, cheering for her with every success! I am not involved in the medical profession yet, now more than ever, I find I have such a love and respect for nurses! But it's much more than that, it's about overcoming obstacles! I just loved the whole story--it is told a in way that just drew me in as though I was experiencing it! Great writing---I want to see more from this author Lois Gerber !!!
Lois Gerber captures the very essence of a nurse in her book Runaway Girl a Nurses Story. The story is set in the early 20th Century in Pittsburgh, PA and is about a poor teenaged girl – Constance Sinclair - who escapes the clutches of an abusive father who “sells her” for fifty cents to a retarded, filthy, neighbor boy who is intent on making her his wife and “having babies with her.” Desperate to escape the “dirt farm” on which she was born, she runs for her life to the railroad and manages to get on a train to Pittsburgh to “lie her way” into secretarial school which requires a high school diploma and a minimum age of 18. On the train she has an experience that will change her life and will help her to get into nursing school at Deaconness Hospital in the heart of Pittsburgh. The author, a nurse herself, knows full-well what it is like to “birth a baby,” hold a dying patient in her arms, manage a ward without needed supplies and put patient’s welfare in front of her own. And also, as an accomplished author, she knows how to weave a good yarn that drives the action and holds the reader’s attention until the very last page. Constance changes her name before applying to Deaconness and then a string of lies follow, but as time goes on she realizes that the webs she weaves are catching her in their embrace. Gerber deftly handles both the entrapment and the escape while she develops her character as a competent professional nurse; the action never flags. This reviewer is both a nurse and a writer herself and felt a good deal of nostalgia while reading about the old hospital wards and working short-staffed. Runaway Girl is a good read for just about anyone who wants a few hours of relaxation and a look-back into a world away from today.
Harriet Forman, RN, EdD
Awesome read! Very much so an attention grabber and sustainer!
Author Lois Gerber introduces us to Connie Sinclair, a feisty young farmer's daughter, determined to have a better life than what her father has planned for her. But to have a chance at that future, Connie must leave everything behind and travel to the "big city", 1920's Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to discover her destiny as a nurse. Gerber brings Pittsburgh alive to the reader with her Ken Follett-like attention to detail. Her extensive research into nursing training, medical practices and the role of nurses of the day will remind us of why people choose to be nurses! As you read this book, you will soon be drawn into Connie's story and cheering her on with anticipation of what will happen next! A Must-Read for anyone!
In a unique way, Ms Gerber introduces a young girl at an early age of 15, by the name of Connie, with a complex life of paternal abuse, lies, secrets, compassion and tenacity. The increasing dramatic tension of the almost paralyzing handicaps Connie must face in order to reach her aspired goal of becoming a nurse are so alive, it’s next to impossible to read only one more chapter!
Connie's escape to freedom of abuse and a potential arranged marriage, finds her in numerous situations that lead her to a career in Nursing. Not only does the author describe her journey in detail but also demonstrates the parallels of nursing post WW1 and nursing today. While techniques and the knowledge base has evolved the basic standards are consistent.
The "Run a way Girl" is a definite read for any age, any profession, anyone!
Love, love this book! Connie Sinclair’s journey as a young girl of sixteen shows how with determination and grit she can discover her true calling, overcoming heart-wrenching obstacles in her path. A girl coming of age, a girl faced with difficult challenges, struggling as she runs away from an abusive father. Running, she meets people, both good and bad, who shape her destiny—to be a nurse.
This is a book for all ages—mothers give this book to your teenage daughters for inspiration, grandmothers to your granddaughters.
I’m not a nurse, but Runaway Girl, A Nurse’s Story, gripped my heart from the first page to the last. A must read.
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