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Ethel Gordon Fenwick : nursing reformer and the first registered nurse / Jenny Main.

Author: Main, Jenny, author.

ImprintBarnsley, South Yorkshire, England ; Havertown, PA : Pen & Sword History, 2022.

Imprint2022

Descriptionxi, 186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:The foundations: 1857-1877 -- Women, work, medicine, and nursing up to the 1870s -- Old medicine, the new nurse, and promotion: 1878-1897 -- The matron 1881-1887 -- Celebrations, marriage, and new challenges 1887-1899 -- The new era: some success 1900-1909 -- Battles, deaths, and victories 1910-1919 -- Registration and professionalism 1919-1946.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (page 182) and index.

Note:"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."-- Provided by publisher.



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