Download or read book Ethel Gordon Fenwick written by Jenny Main and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great nursing reformer, Ethel Gordon Fenwick was born before the age of the motor car and died at the start of the jet age. When she began her career, nursing was a vocation, unregulated with a dangerous variety of standards and inefficiencies. A gifted nurse, Ethel worked alongside great medical men of the day and, aged 24, she became the youngest matron of St Bartholomew’s hospital London, where she instigated many improvements. At that time, anyone could be called a nurse, regardless of ability. Ethel recognized that for the safety of patients, and of nurses, there must be an accepted standard of training, with proof of qualification provided by a professional register. Often contentious, Ethel was a determined woman. She fought for nearly thirty years to achieve a register to ensure nurses were qualified, respected professionals. A suffragist and journalist, she travelled to America where she met like-minded nursing colleagues. As well as helping to create the International Council of Nurses, and the Royal British Nurses Association, she was also instrumental in organising nurses and supplies during the Graeco-Turkish War, and was awarded several medals for this work. Thanks to her long campaign for registration, a year after her death nurses were ready to take their place alongside other professionals when the National Health Service began in 1948.
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of nursing v 4 1912 written by Mary Adelaide Nutting and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A History of Nursing written by Mary Adelaide Nutting and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the International Council of Nurses 1899 1925 written by Margaret Breay and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nursing History Review Volume 3 written by Joan E. Lynaugh and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1994-10-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing
Download or read book First Nurse written by Main and published by Strident Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Ethel Bedford Fenwick, written by Jenny Main, is a biography of one of the Nineteenth Century's major reformers to whom the nursing profession owes an eternal debt of gratitude.Ethel was born Ethel Gordon Manson in the Morayshire town of Elgin in 1857. Unusually for someone of that era, Ethel had an early ambition to become a nurse, when nursing was not high on the list of preferred occupations for young ladies. At the age of 21, Ethel commenced training in Nottingham as a paying probationer nurse. Her expertise was soon noted and it was not long before she left for London, where she worked in hospitals in Whitechapel, and Richmond.In 1881, aged 24, Ethel was appointed Matron of St Bartholomew's Hospital, a post she held for the next six years. One of the oldest hospitals in the world, 'Barts ' tended the poor and its traditions and working practises were entrenched to say the least. In the eyes of one observer, Miss Manson " swept through the hospital like a whirlwind" and soon instituted reforms that were to change the course and status of nursing for ever.Ethel Manson resigned her post in 1887 to marry a doctor Bedford Fenwick, since it was unthinkable that a married woman could also be a matron. Her career, however, did not end with marriage and she devoted her life to fighting for the improvement of the status of the nursing profession. That she succeeded is proved by her name being the first to appear on the list of State Registered Nurses. Ethel was also instrumental in founding the International Congress of Nurses and was its president for the first five years .It is clear that Ethel Bedford Fenwick did not suffer fools gladly, if at all, and her fiery character was more than a challenge to the establishment. As Lord Inman recalled in his autobiography: "Mrs Bedford Fenwick was a woman with whom it was possible to do business on terms of complete subservience."
Download or read book Nursing History Review Volume 20 written by Patricia D'Antonio, PhD, RN, FAAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource. Included in Volume 20... “To Help a Million Sick You Must Kill a Few Nurses”: Nurses’ Occupational Health, 1890–1914 “Who Would Know Better Than the Girls in White?” Nurses as Experts in Postwar Magazine Advertising, 1945–1950 Maternal Expectations: New Mothers, Nurses, and Breastfeeding Community Mental Health Nursing in Alberta, Canada: An Oral History “Time Enough! or Not Enough Time!” An Oral History Investigation of Some British and Australian Community Nurses’ Responses to Demands for “Efficiency” in Healthcare, 1960–2000 China Confidential: Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Global Nursing Historiography
Download or read book Prepared to Care written by Janet C. Ross-Kerr and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alberta, nurses have been central to the development of health care and to the growth of hospitals from the early settlement days. Nursing was an early and fundamental part of social organizations in the province. Ross Kerr follows the development in Alberta of public health nursing, district nursing, the evolution of nursing as a professional discipline, nursing education and organized nursing through the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses.
Download or read book Who cared for the carers written by Deborah Palmer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses’ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948. In the process it reveals the ways national ideas about the organisation of nursing impacted on the lives of ordinary nurses. It explains why the management of nurses’ health changed over time and between places, and sets these changes within a wider context of social, political and economic history. Today, high rates of sickness absence in the nursing profession attract increasing criticism. Nurses took more days off sick in 2011 than private sector employees and most other groups of public sector workers. This book argues that the roots of today’s problems are embedded in the ways nurses were managed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offers insights not only into the history of women’s work but also the history of disease and the ways changing scientific knowledge shaped the management of nurses’ health.
Download or read book The British Journal of Nursing with which is Incorporated the Nursing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Journal of Nursing written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Science Lover s Guide to London written by Rachael Rowe and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey through London, discovering the unique places and people associated with all things scientific, from museums to bars, statues to plaques, each landmark has a story behind it just waiting to be discovered. London has seen many scientific discoveries and engineering feats in its history. Scientists have made their home and studied in the metropolis, while the city is a hub for medical and scientific collections displayed in quirky and engaging museums. From Michael Faraday to Rosalind Franklin and William Harvey, London’s scientists have inspired people to find out more, study, and innovate. This book takes you on an area by area journey through London to discover places and people associated with science, and even see and experience scientific phenomena. From museums and bars associated with science, and behind the scenes engineering tours, scientific genius is all over the city. Each statue and plaque has a story behind it, waiting to be discovered. This unique book can be used as a guidebook on a physical journey through London, or as a collection of intriguing and often obscure stories and information for science lovers to enjoy wherever they are. Whether you are an aspiring scientist, are home schooling, attending a conference in London, or simply love science, this book has ideas to inspire you.
Download or read book Nursing History Review Volume 2 written by Joan E. Lynaugh and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1993-11-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing
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Download or read book A History of Nursing written by Louise Wyatt and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, well illustrated and compact history of nursing in Great Britain. The author traces the story of nurses and the impact they have had on our society.
