Gladys Lofthouse, Nurse, Collection

Collection of items originally belonging to Gladys Lofthouse, nurse. The collection contains five nurse training notebooks, a folder of daily training record sheets, a black and white photograph of the nurses ward at St. James's Hospital, a photocopy of a certificate received by Lofthouse from St. James' Hospital confirming that she had completed the training school for nurses, an invitation card sent to Lofthouse inviting her to a presentation of medals, prizes and certificates to student nurses on 3 July 1954. The training notebooks contain lecture notes on gynaecology, operating theatres, administration of drugs, medical lectures (infection, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, heart disease, endocarditis, blood disease, diabetes), surgical lectures (including inflammation, haemorrhages, shock treatment, wounds). The collection contains a CD-Rom of images of the certificate.

Gladys Lofthouse trained to become a nurse at St. James' Hospital Training Schoool for Leeds and qualified as a nurse in 1931. Working at St. James's Hospital for many years, Lofthouse (later Gladys Bell) was invited to a presentation of medals, prizes and certificates in July 1954 by HRH The Princess Margaret.

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