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Association Of Hospital Matrons
The Association of Hospital Matrons was a professional organization of hospital matrons in the United Kingdom, founded in 1919. At its meeting on 23 December 1971 it changed its name in to the Association of Nurse Administrators from January 1972. It was officially dissolved on 31 December 1986, and amalgamated with the Royal College of Nursing Association of Nursing Management in January 1987. History The Association of Hospital Matrons began as a rival to the Matrons' Council for Great Britain and Ireland, an organisation founded in 1894 by Isla Stewart and Ethel Gordon Fenwick. By 1919 there was disaffection with Fenwick's approach so Rachael Cox-Davies and Alicia Lloyd Still invited some 50 matrons, resulting in a turn-out of 21 at the founding meeting of the Association at St Thomas’ Hospital on 15 April 1919. Most attendees were matrons from the London teaching hospitals, with representatives from the Royal College of Nursing (Miss Rundle) and the War Office (Miss Ridd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital Matron
Matron is the job title of a very senior or the chief nurse in a hospital in several countries, including the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth countries and former colonies. Etymology The chief nurse, in other words the person in charge of nursing in a hospital and the head of the nursing staff, is also known as the Chief Nursing officer or Chief Nursing Executive, senior nursing officer, matron, nursing officer, or clinical nurse manager in UK English; the head nurse or director of nursing in US English, and the nursing superintendent or matron in Indian English, among other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations. In England, matrons today "have powers over budgets, catering and cleaning as well as being in charge of nurses and doctors" and "have the powers to withhold payments from catering and cleaning services if they don't think they are giving the best service to the National Health Service, NHS." Historically, matrons supervised the hospital as a whole but toda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Health Visitors Association
The Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association (CPHVA) is a Trade union and professional association for health care staff in the UK and Ireland. It is part of Unite the Union. Its 18,500 members include health visitors, school nurses, nursery nurses and other community nurses working in primary care. It produces a monthly journal ''Community Practitioner'', which contains both news and scholarly articles. Activity Obi Amadi, the lead professional officer, featured in a list of leading BME staff in the NHS compiled by the Health Service Journal in November 2014 and was praised for her involvement in the campaign to end female genital mutilation. The association organises annual awards for practitioners: Community Nursery Nurse of the Year; National School Nurse of the Year; It has a fund, the MacQueen Travel Bursary for Public Health Activity Abroad to assist members to broaden their experience. Student of the Year History *1896 Women Sanitary Inspectors' Associati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organizations Established In 1919
An organization or organisation ( Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is an entity—such as a company, or corporation or an institution ( formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. Organizations may also operate secretly or illegally in the case of secret societies, criminal organizations, and resistance movements. And in some cases may have obstacles from other organizations (e.g.: MLK's organization). What makes an organization recognized by the government is either filling out incorporation or recognition in the form of either societal pressure (e.g.: Advocacy group), causing concerns (e.g.: Resistance movement) or being considered the spokesperson of a group of people subject to negotiation (e.g.: the Polisario Front being recognized as the sole representative of the Sahrawi people and forming a partially recognized state.) Compare the concept of social groups, which may include non-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Establishments In The United Kingdom
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (later Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2– 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in Berlin: The Marxist Spartacus League, with the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and the Independent Social De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nursing Organisations In The United Kingdom
Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence". Nurses practice in many List of nursing specialties, specialties with varying levels of certification and responsibility. Nurses comprise the largest component of most healthcare environments. There are shortages of qualified nurses in many countries. Nurses develop a plan of care, working collaboratively with physicians, therapists, patients, patients' families, and other team members that focuses on treating illness to improve quality of life. In the United Kingdom and the United States, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners diagnose health problems and prescribe medications and other therapies, depending on regulations that vary by state. Nurses may help coordinate care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Margery Westbrook
Grace Margery Westbrook (13 July 1910 – 30 May 1999) , was the first practising nurse to be elected Chair of the Staff Side of the Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council. Early life and education Westbrook was born on 13 July 1910 in Rotherham where her father was a pharmacist, and she worked as his assistant until she began nurse training. She trained at Sheffield Royal Infirmary (and the Maternity Hospital at Leeds) qualifying in 1935. Starting at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in 1938 she held posts successively, as staff nurse, ward sister, night superintendent and relief administrative sister. She obtained the sister tutor's diploma before taking the nurse management course at the Royal College of Nursing. Career as Matron She became first assistant Matron at Bristol Royal Hospital. She then took a lateral move to become sister tutor at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital from 1953-1955 which enabled her to look after her recently widowed mother, who lived with West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton
Audrey Caroline Emerton, Baroness Emerton, (born 10 September 1935), is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a crossbencher. Appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 New Year Honours, she was created a life peer as Baroness Emerton, of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 17 February 1997. She sat in the House of Lords until her retirement on 1 November 2019. Career She worked in the National Health Service as Chief Nursing Officer of South East Thames Regional Health Authority throughout the 1980s, and is chiefly remembered and honoured for leading the programme that replaced Darenth Park Hospital, a huge asylum for people with learning disabilities, which closed in August 1988. She was President of the Association of Nurse Administrators 1979-1983 She later at on the Prime Minister's independent commission that published the Front Line Care (Report) in 2010. Affiliatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Greene (nurse)
John Greene (8 September 1916 - 1 May 2001) was an Irish-born chief nursing officer known for his work in the field of mental health nursing and introducing community psychiatric nursing. Early life Greene was born on 8 September 1916 in County Clare, Ireland. His mother died when he was eight years old, during the birth of her tenth child. Greene left school at 14 and worked as a labourer. In 1935, aged 18, Greene moved to England to join his brother who was already working in private nursing. Six of his nine siblings became nurses. Early career Greene initially gained experience in private mental hospitals in Bedford and Essex prior to moving to Herrison Hospital, Dorset, to undertake formal nurse training. In 1939 he qualified as a mental nurse gaining the Royal Medico-Psychological Association's certificate. In 1940, Greene joined the Royal Navy as a sick-berth attendant and continued studying for his Registered Mental Nurse (RMN) qualifications and Registered Nurse ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Friend
Dame Phyllis Muriel Friend, (28 September 1922 – 24 June 2013) was a British nurse and nursing officer. Education and early career Friend attended the Herts and Essex School in Bishop’s Stortford. Her parents both worked there - her mother was the Matron and her Father the Master. Friend originally had thought that she would like to study history and become a researcher. Friend spent much of her professional career at The London Hospital where she received her basic nursing education (circa 1943) and undertook Part I Midwifery Training. She held the posts of ward sister, nurse tutor (1948) and Assistant Matron at 'The London' (1954) before becoming deputy matron at St. George's Hospital, London in 1956. In 1959, she returned to The London Hospital as Matron Designate. In 1961, she became matron. In 1964, The London was the first to install its own computer system; a development in which Friend was heavily involved. In 1969, she was appointed Chief Nursing Officer at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Powell
Dame Muriel Betty Powell (30 October 1914 – 8 December 1978) was a British nurse, hospital matron, nurse educator, public servant, and Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for the Scottish Home and Health Department (SHHD) 1970-76.Muriel Powell remembered : a profile of her life / by Elizabeth J.C. Scott; foreword by Catherine McLoughlin. - British Library (bl.uk) Accessed 11/5/2022Nuttal, P. Powell, Dame Muriel Betty (1914–1978) Oxford National Dictionary of Biography. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/50777 Early life Powell was born, lived and was educated in Cinderford, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.Scott EJ. Dame Muriel Powell (1914–1978): Role Model of a Hospital Matron and Leader of Nursing. Journal of Medical Biography. 2003 Feb;11(1):3-9.https://doi.org/10.1177/096777200301100104 She was the fourth of seven children of Annie (nee Stewart) and Wallace George Powell, a stonemason who set up a house building company. The family were committed members of the local Anglic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Smith (nurse)
Dorothy Madge Smith CBE (14 August 1895 – 5 January 1991) was an influential nursing leader and matron of two large voluntary hospitals in London: firstly the Middlesex Hospital, and secondly Guys hospital. She was Chairman of the General Nursing Council (GNC). Early life Smith was the fifth child of ten born into a farming family in Swaffham, Norfolk, England. Her father was one of a long line of farmers. Smith attended Swaffham Grammar School, where she took the School Certificate. Early career In 1916 she started her nurse training at Guy's Hospital, London during the First World War. Aged 21 this was the earliest she was able to start training. Smith's leadership skills were soon noticed and she was rapidly promoted. By 1927 she was Assistant Matron at Guy's. Matron and leadership roles In 1929 Smith was appointed as Lady Superintendent and Matron at The Middlesex Hospital, in Mortimer Street, London. From the beginning she made reforms including amending the patie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Clague
Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters ** Joan of Arc (c. 1412–1431), patron saint of France *Joan (surname) Art and media * ''Joan'' (Alexander McQueen collection), a fashion collection by Alexander McQueen * ''Joan'' (play), a 2015 one-woman play * ''Joan'' (rock opera), a 1975 rock opera * ''Joan'' (TV series), a 2024 British crime drama Music * ''Joan'' (album), a 1967 album by Joan Baez *Joan (band), an American duo formed in 2017 *"Joan", a song by The Art Bears from their 1978 album ''Hopes and Fears'' *"Joan", a song by Lene Lovich from her 1980 album ''Flex'' *"Joan", a song by Erasure from their 1991 album ''Chorus'' *"Joan", a song by The Innocence Mission from their 1991 album ''Umbrella'' *"Joan", a song by God Is My Co-Pilot from their 1992 album ''I Am Not This Body'' Other uses *Jōan (era), a Japanese era name *Joan Township, Ontario, Canada *List of storms named Joan, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
