For Ruth and Shirley, a day to remember. The day they get their SRN badges. For Patricia, a day of decision.

An angry exchange causes a down-tools and Ruth finds her loyalties divided...

A traumatic day. For Pat and Maureen their first day on the ward ... For Linda a day of decision.

A day of uncertainty - the day of the SRN results and Shirley is tormented by doubts... Not only about the results but about nursing itself...

Maureen and Patricia celebrate their last day in the classroom.... While in Casualty Sita copes with a distraught, and peculiarly uncooperative patient...

Some nurses are on duty and some are off-duty - which means a chance to go to a party... let off steam... find a fellah...

A distressed patient and a lingering visitor. Just two of the problems that Sita Patel has to cope with on Men's Surgical...

Ruth Fullman is on the maternity ward, and she finds herself suddenly involved with a patient - an involvement which has definite ramifications on her private life. Meanwhile, Maureen Morahan has a different kind of problem - a problem which prompts her to seek advice from the hospital chaplain.

Ruth Fullman is on night duty with an agency nurse - not a pleasant prospect for her....

As part of their training, nurses have to select and get to know a patient and do a case history on him. Jo Longhurst decides on a particularly difficult one...

Leisure time can be a problem for student nurses new to London. Patricia and Maureen have different ways of coping with it ...

An average day on Female Medical-patients making demands, cleaners causing chaos, and in the middle of it all, Staff Nurse Hollis. At home she has a demanding husband....

Jo makes a controversial decision regarding a patient, and has to defend it to Sister Easby ...

Maureen and Patricia's first day as student nurses ... for Patricia a day of first impressions ... for Maureen - a day of problems ...

Two girls are leaving home, Maureen Morahan from Ireland and Patricia Rutherford from Bath... they are heading for St Angela's hospital in Battersea... to a new life, as student nurses...