Mon, Sep 1, 1975
Student nurses are starting their courses at St Angela's Hospital. Flighty upper middle class Patricia Rutherford seems to have the biggest transition to make. Maureen Morahan has a much more earnest approach and has travelled from rural Ireland. The newcomers struggle to get to grips with their practical rather than fashionable uniforms. By contrast second year students Jo Longhurst and Shirley Brent go about their work on the wards with confidence and good humour.
Mon, Sep 22, 1975
Young Staff Nurse Linda Hollis finds that managing a busy, unpredictable ward doesn't always sit with well with married life. Meanwhile two of her Student Nurses Jo Longhurst and Shirley Brent are having a fractious relationship with Jo irritated by Shirley's officious and abrasive character. However Jo can sense that Shirley is lonely and tries to adopt a more friendly and supportive attitude that might make her more amenable.
Mon, Sep 15, 1975
Student Nurses Longhurst and Rutherford both have clashes with authority. In an appraisal, Sister Easby accuses Nurse Longhurst of getting too involved with patients and lacking detachment. She takes these accusations very badly, feeling that she has been misjudged and victimized by an unfair appraisal system. Meanwhile, Nurse Rutherford is irritated by what she sees as unnecessary, irrelevant teaching, and nursing lecturer Miss Windrup targets her for her perceived lack of attentiveness.
Mon, Sep 29, 1975
Maureen takes Patricia to see her Aunt Kath and then the pair visit a pub. Patricia finds the night livened up by meeting up with Maureen's cousin Barney but they also encounter Beryl, a former nurse at St Angela's, who feels rather in the need of company and may not have left the hospital as far behind as it first seems.