Cherry learns about the workings of the mind as she collaborates with a staff psychiatrist in trying to assist a young amnesia patient regain his memory.

While helping to establish a hospital volunteer program and care for a newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis patient, Cherry uncovers an investment scheme and assists undercover agents for the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Now chief of her unit in the Army Nurse Corps, Cherry Ames has the support of her Spencer Hospital friends as she strives to meet the challenge of organizing an evacuation hospital on a Pacific island.

During their final year of training, Cherry Ames and her friends at Spencer Hospital face difficult decisions about their futures as nurses during wartime.

When the war is over, Cherry comes home to Hilton, Illinois and faces the challenge of caring for wounded veterans.

When Cherry goes to work as the nurse at a chateau-turned-boarding school, she and one of the students discover a formula that, when constituted to its exact specifications, produces a perfume that saves the school from bankruptcy.

Looking forward to a working vacation as nurse on a cruise ship to the Caribbean, Cherry Ames soon finds herself embroiled in a dangerous mystery involving a sickly child and greedy men anxious to find a secret stockpile of precious ambergris.

Cherry, the only public health nurse assigned to a rural county in southeastern Iowa, uncovers a phony folk medicine production operation using ginseng growing wild in swamp water tainted with harmful bacteria.