[Margaret Pilkington]

I also find it difficult to answer this question....there have been many influences in my life, and it is hard to know which have caused the most impact.
I remember when I first started my nurse training. I worked on the Surgical unit in the New wing for my first placement.....one of the Staff Nurses on that ward was a fine young woman called Eileen Dignan........she was my role model. I aspired to being just like her. She was kind, caring and seemingly inflappable. She seemed to know everything too. I never ever heard her say a bad word about anyone, I never saw her in a bad mood........and I soooooo wanted to be like her.

I'm not sure that I ever did become like her....all I can say is that I tried my very best.