Three Nurses, obviously enough, features three nurses--Lee Barry, Anne Allen, and Nancy White--in separate but sometimes intersecting stories.

Red-haired Lee Barry is an uncertain and sometimes troubled student nurse at City General Hospital, trying to find a balance between her ideals and the everyday realities of hospital life, doubting both her ability and her commitment.

Dark-haired Anne Allen is a calm and efficient registered nurse at that same City General, always ready to help others, and always having men fall in love with her.

Nancy White, blond and blue-eyed, is a determined and crusading visiting nurse in the tenements of the "concrete jungle," where she's frequently forced to fend off the unwanted attentions of predatory men.

Stories in this series do deal with more than just romantic problems, though generally in melodramatic and purple-prose fashion. Some of the issues the three nurses face include racial prejudice (involving an older nurse who's been passing as white), urban blight, alcoholism, and personal ethics.

Born as Confidential Diary, this comic book series became Three Nurses in 1963--and later was further retitled as Career Girl Romances in 1964.

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