Ethel Gordon Fenwick: Nursing Reformer and the First Registered Nurse

Name: Ethel Gordon Fenwick: Nursing Reformer and the First Registered Nurse
Brand: Pen & Sword
SKU: 9781399099585
Price: 22.0 GBP
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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 recognised 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.

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Manufacturer/Publisher: Pen & Sword
Binding: Hardback
Author: Jenny Main
Date Published: 2022
Pagination: 224p

SKU: 9781399099585

Ethel Gordon Fenwick: Nursing Reformer and the First Registered Nurse

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