Beyond Cherry Ames
Revisit other juvenile series starring nurses; learn about other nurse sleuths, both old and new; take a look at nurses in comic books and nurses in the real world; and read about other career-girl sleuths. Click on a title for more information.
Nurse Series
Ann Bartlett: Anchors Aweigh Nurse Ann Bartlett joins the navy and sees the world; she also manages to see a lot of the major action in the Pacific theater during World War II.
Bayshore Medical Center: Love and Work Bayshore Medical Center is the setting for hospital romance, as young student nurses find true love.
Gail Gardner: Cadet Nurse Determined to become a nurse, minister's daughter Gail Gardner joins the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.
Jean Craig: Artist Turned Nurse Jean Craig is the eldest of four children whose lives are severely disrupted by World War II and its aftermath in this postwar series.
Kathy Martin: Nursing and Sleuthing Kathy Martin trains at a tiny nursing school, then nurses patients and solves mysteries in places ranging from Alaska to Africa.
Mary Ellis: Breaking Barriers Mary Ellis Stebbins is a reluctant pioneer when she becomes one of two black women who attend a previously all-white nursing school.
Nancy Kimball: Less Than Perfect Nancy Kimball progresses from an earnest, uncertain young hospital volunteer to a struggling student nurse at City Hospital.
Nancy Naylor: Flying for Uncle Sam Nurse and stewardess Nancy Naylor aids the war effort during World War II by getting a pilot's license and eventually joining the Army Nurse Corps.
Nurse Blake: You're in the Army Now Nurse Laura Blake serves in the Pacific theater with the Army Nurse Corps, encountering spies as well as some moral dilemmas.
Nurses Three: Sisters in White The three Scott sisters--Tracy, Penny, and Kelly--follow different nursing paths, each with her own adventures and problems.
Penny Marsh: A Career in Public Health Public health nurse Penny Marsh works in both big-city and rural settings, and helps recruit nurses for wartime service.
Sue Barton: Having It All ... Sort Of Sue Barton evolves from uncertain student nurse to self-confident doctor's wife, mother of four, and part-time nurse.
Susan Merton: Spies and Saboteurs Blond and beautiful, deceitful and dangerous, Susan Merton is both nurse and spy for Uncle Sam.
Nurse Sleuths
Agnes Carmichael: Angel of Mercy? Enigmatic Sister Carmichael is a British nurse who brings a unique twist to the role of justice bringer and restorer of order; somehow, one feels quite sure that Cherry Ames would not approve.
Edwina Crusoe: Confidential Consulting After fifteen years as a nurse, wealthy Edwina Crusoe decides to parlay her background into medical-related mystery solving.
Caroline Rhodes: New Nurse in Town Recently widowed, Caroline Rhodes has made some changes in her life--she's got a new address, a new job, and a new "hobby": finding killers.
Hilda Adams: Nurse Detective Long before Cherry Ames arrived on the scene, Hilda Adams had a successful career as a nurse sleuth.
Imogen Quy: School for Crime? School nurse Imogen Quy--rhymes with "why"--asks both "Why?" and "Who? when murder disrupts the peaceful pursuit of higher education.
Kate Kinsella: Deadly Delights Offbeat Kate Kinsella is ready to chuck nursing and become a full-time gumshoe, but that won't always pay the bills.
Sarah Brandt: Midwifery and Murder Birth and death--Sarah Brandt, young widow of a murdered doctor, finds herself involved with both as a midwife and sometime sleuth in early twentieth-century New York City.
Sarah Keate: Classic Crimes Mignon G. Eberhart made her mystery debut with The Patient in Room 18 , starring Sarah Keate as a no-nonsense, sharp-witted nurse.
Nurses in Comic Books
Cynthia Doyle: Nurse in Love Beautiful Cynthia Doyle loves being a nurse, but she also loves the dashing, completely oblivious Dr. Edward Benson.
Linda Carter: Student Nurse Linda Carter's off to nursing school, where she finds assorted friends and handsome doctors, and learns to balance patients' food trays.
Linda Lark: Romantic Dilemmas Linda Lark soothes the sick and injured at General Hospital and elsewhere, and pursues her heart's desire, young Dr. Joe Blasko, despite inevitable complications.
Lois Lane: Superman's Nurse When she wasn't snooping for a great metropolitan newspaper, Lois Lane occasionally worked as a nurse at Metropolis Hospital.
Nellie the Nurse: Riotous Redhead Nurse Nellie Nelson pursues Doc Snazzy Wilks in a series of comical romantic adventures in and around the hospital where they work.
Night Nurse: Hospital Melodrama Three beautiful and dedicated young nurses discover a world of "danger, drama and death!" in a large metropolitan hospital.
Nurse Betsy Crane: Selfless Sacrifice Lovely, dedicated, and selfless, Nurse Betsy Crane puts work ahead of romance.
The Nurses: Medical Drama Student nurse Gail Lucas is earnest and well-meaning, while her mentor, head nurse Liz Thorpe, is older and wiser.
The Romances of Nurse Helen Grant: Virtue Rewarded? Helen Grant quickly falls for a difficult and demanding doctor when she becomes his office nurse. But the course of true love isn't smooth or, in this case, very long.
Sue and Sally Smith: Flying Nurses Sue and Sally Smith, a brave pair of dedicated young nurses, travel to trouble spots all over the world whenever duty calls--and manage to find romance as well.
Three Nurses: Triple Troubles Lee Barry, Anne Allen, and Nancy White are three young nurses at different points in their professional lives, each struggling for both career and personal fulfillment.
Real Women in Health Care Professions
Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield Clarissa Harlowe Barton, known as the Angel of the Battlefield for her work during the Civil War, founded the American Red Cross.
Mother Bickerdyke: Cyclone in Calico Known as Mother Bickerdyke and the Cyclone in Calico, Civil War nurse Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke tended soldiers with Ulysses S. Grant's forces.
Elizabeth Blackwell: First Female Doctor The first female medical doctor in the United States, Elizabeth Blackwell founded a medical college for women.
Mary Breckinridge: Frontier Nurse Mary Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service--the "nurses on horseback"--to provide care to people in remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains.
Mother Cabrini: Patron of Immigrants Mother Cabrini founded hospitals and charitable institutions and became the first American citizen to be canonized as a saint.
Edith Cavell: World War I Martyr Because of her efforts to help Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium during World War I, British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad.
Dorothea Dix: Advocate for the Mentally Ill A philanthropist and social reformer, Dorothea Lynde Dix was a pioneer for the humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Sister Kenny: Treating Polio Elizabeth Kenny, known as Sister Kenny, was an innovator in the treatment of polio, despite opposition from the medical establishment.
Clara Maass: Ultimate Sacrifice At only twenty-five years of age, nurse Clara Louise Maass died from yellow fever she contracted in a medical experiment.
Florence Nightingale: Lady with the Lamp The famed Lady with the Lamp, British nurse Florence Nightingale was a hospital reformer and the pioneer of modern nursing.
Linda Richards: America's First Trained Nurse The first trained nurse in the United States, Linda Richards became superintendent of a training school in Boston and helped establish a nursing school in Japan.
Lillian Wald: Henry Street Founder Nurse and social worker Lillian Wald was a public health pioneer who founded the Henry Street Settlement.
Career-Girl Sleuths Cherry Ames books were also responsible for the another career-girl series, this one about a sharp-witted, sleuthing stewardess.
Vicki Barr: Mysteries on the Fly Petite and deceptively helpless-looking, Vicki Barr's a sleuthing stewardess from Illinois.
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