Castle Douglas county Douglas dance fun hospital patient infection career Love Castle Douglas county Douglas

Retired Castle Douglas nurse Betty Craig continues her Galloway People trip down memory lane

Reading now: 749
dailyrecord.co.uk

Last week we left Betty Craig of Castle Douglas in 1969 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, where she had just completed two years of training and qualified as a state enrolled nurse.

Springburn-born Betty had left Albert Senior Secondary at 16 and worked in an insurance brokers before joining the nursing profession.

Dad and mum, Andy and Betty Stirling, had four children, of whom she was the eldest. Always a child with a vivid imagination, Betty had a talent for writing – but seeing her work in print was still half a century away as she concentrated on the job in hand, nursing people back to health.

After qualifying she worked on a medical paediatric ward for six months. Nursing was a challenging and varied job, she tells me, with duties including everything from diagnosing coeliac disease to giving oxygen to young children with respiratory complaints. “The patients ranged from babies to children of 12 or 13,” Betty recalls. “There was a boys’ ward, a girls’ ward and one for the babies. “The toddlers’ ward was great fun. “You would get the wee ones up in the morning and feed them which was always a gloriously messy experience. “Some of them could lead you a merry dance! “A part of the unit was used for barrier nursing where strict infection control was in place. “There were kids with respiratory problems and a whole range of other conditions. “The children would be in a bubble and strict procedures would be in place for entering and leaving the ward. “I loved the work with the sick children.

Read more on dailyrecord.co.uk
The website starsalert.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA