Mary Adams, Student Nurse — Alice Brennan

STUDENT NURSE

Every time Mary Adams, student nurse, entered the hospital she felt exhilarated and excited.

Her blue eyes shone with the pride of wearing her white cap. But the cap was only the beginning. She still had to earn the right to wear the white uniform of the graduate nurse.

Her days were very full. She carried a full schedule of classes: biology, anatomy, physiology. And there was her “on duty” time.

Each day Mary saw the drama of a big-city hospital. Birth, death and disease were part of her life now. And she loved every minute of it…

Until the day she found that heartbreak was also part of a nurse's life and she had to learn to accept the responsibility of growing up.