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an infection control nurse looks out from a Covid-19 recovery ward in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland
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Many in my cohort in 1990 were migrant women, mostly Irish, just like me.
In those days the registered general nurse (RGN) was a three-year apprenticeship where you earned your stripes through hard work on a variety of in-patient wards.
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