The three Scott sisters, daughters of a New York prominent surgeon, all pursue nursing careers.

Tracy, the oldest, is blond, self-assured, artistic, and especially interested in pediatric nursing. Impulsive Penny, a brown-haired tomboy, tends to plunge headlong into danger. And sensitive Kelly, the baby of the family, is coping with the pressures of family expectations as a new nursing student.

Kelly Scott: A Career for Kelly, 1963
Kelly's first days in nursing school are marred by roommate problems and an accusation of theft as she struggles to live up to her nursing ideals--and to the standards set by her older sisters.

Penny Scott: First Assignment, 1963
Penny nurses an old man with a bad heart, a lot of money, and a son who doesn't want to share his inheritance with his estranged older brother.

Jean Kirby is a pseudonym. Chaille (pronounced Shelly) Howard (Payne) Robinson wrote at least three of the Nurses Three books, including both of the Kelly Scott titles (A Career for Kelly, and On Call for Trouble) and Penny Scott: First Assignment. Virginia B. McDonnell wrote the last two books: Tracy Scott: Tracy's Little People and Penny Scott: Olympic Duty.

Tracy Scott: A Very Special Girl, 1963
On assignment at an Indian Service hospital for a year, Tracy learns about a culture different from her own, faces a false accusation of carelessness, and clashes with a perplexing roommate.

Kelly Scott: On Call for Trouble, 1964
Kelly becomes involved with several difficult patients, but her greatest worry is a classmate whose friendship has turned to hate.

Penny Scott: Danger Island, 1964
Nursing a child orphaned and badly burned in a train wreck, Penny fears leaving the girl with her guardians--a kindly uncle and a coldly distant aunt.

Whitman issued two sets of paper doll cut-outs in conjunction with this series, in 1964 and 1965.

Tracy Scott: Tracy's Little People, 1965
Tracy witnesses an auto accident and swiftly gives first aid, but when one victim dies, she is accused of vehicular homicide.

Penny Scott: Olympic Duty, 1965
As nurse for the American Olympic team in France, Penny takes care of a diabetic skier and joins a perilous rescue mission to save a young boy stranded on an Alpine mountain.

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