Retiring after 150 years of nursing
Irene Wilson, Jan Towning and Margaret Barrie remember when nursing looked very different, from the tightly starched dresses and caps they wore to the way they were trained.
Posted on Saturday October 2, 2021

Irene Wilson, Jan Towning, Director of Nursing Tracey Gabiola and Margaret Baine
Fifty years later, with a combined experience of almost 150 years, they’re hanging up their uniforms for good and enjoying a well-earned retirement. They reminisce on the early days of completing their hospital training as young teenagers living in nursing housing adjacent to the ward. Jan Towning, who completed her nursing training in a hospital…