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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 NHS." Historically, matrons supervised the hospital as a whole but today, they are in charge of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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] |
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Muriel Powell (nurse)
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] |
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English Reform movement, social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards. Nightingale gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. Recent commentators have asserted that Nightingale's Crimean War achievements were exaggerated by the media at the time, but critics agree on the importance of her later work in professionalising nursing roles for women. In 1860, she laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Eileen Rees
Eileen Mary Rees OBE FRCN (21 September 1912 – 12 February 2008) was a British nurse and nurse educationalist. Early life Born in Cardiff on 21 September 1912 to the Reverend Frederick Rees, Canon of Llandaff and Vicar of St Catherine, Canton and his wife, Charlotte. She had two brothers - Frederick and Arthur. Rees was a pupil at Howell’s school in Llandaff. Following completing her schooling she was offered a place to study French at University College Cardiff but decided to study nursing. Education and early career Rees trained at Cardiff Royal Infirmary from 1931–1934. She was awarded the Gold Medal for her year qualifying as a State Registered Nurse. Rees then undertook midwifery training and became a State Certified Midwife. Rees worked as a sister in the ear, nose and throat department of the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. During the second world war from 1941 - 1946 she served with the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps in the Territorial Army in the Mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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St George's Hospital
St George's Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Tooting, London. Founded in 1733, it is one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals. It is run by the St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It shares its main hospital site in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth, with City St George's, University of London, which trains NHS staff and carries out advanced medical research. The hospital has around 1,300 beds and most general tertiary care such as accident and emergency, maternity services and care for older people and children. However, as a major acute hospital, St George's Hospital also offers specialist care for the more complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It is also home to one of four major trauma centres and one of eight hyper-acute stroke units for London. St George's Hospital also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in the South Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Royal College Of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is a registered trade union and professional body in the United Kingdom for those in the profession of nursing. It was founded in 1916 as the College of Nursing, receiving its royal charter in 1928. Queen Elizabeth II was the patron until her death in 2022, Charles III, King Charles III continued the royal connection and became patron in 2024. The majority of members are registered nurses; however student nurses and healthcare assistants are also members. There is also a category of membership, at a reduced cost, for retired people. The RCN describes its mission as representing nurses and nursing, promoting excellence in practice and shaping health policies. It has a network of stewards, safety representatives and union learning representatives as well as advice services for members. Services include a main library in London, and regional Library, libraries. The RCN Institute provides courses for nurses. History The College of Nursing Ltd was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Royal British Nurses' Association
The Royal British Nurses' Association was founded in December 1887 by Ethel Bedford-Fenwick, with leading matrons from voluntary, local authority and military hospitals including; Isla Stewart of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Godiva Thorold of the Middlesex Hospital, Miss Hogg of Haslar Hospital and Anne Gibson of Brownlow Hill Infirmary, Liverpool The early objectives were : to obtain a charter to enable the association to examine and register nurses, conferring degrees; to devise schemes for annuity pensions and sick funds for nurses; the formation and management of convalescent and holiday homes for nurses as well as alms houses for retired nurses; and the organisation of conferences on questions relating to the profession of nursing. It described itself as a union or organisation of nurses for professional objects and campaigned for the establishment of a register of nurses. It wanted the training to last three years with national standards. Princess Christian was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Westminster Hospital
Westminster Hospital was a hospital in London, England, founded in 1719. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. In 1939 a newly built hospital and medical school opened in Horseferry Road, Westminster. In 1994 the hospital closed, and its resources were moved to the new Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at the old St Stephen's Hospital site on Fulham Road. History Foundation The Westminster Hospital was established in 1719 as a charitable society "for relieving the sick and needy at the Public Infirmary in Westminster", and promoted by Henry Hoare (1677–1725), otherwise "Good Henry", son of Sir Richard Hoare and a partner in Hoare's Bank, and his associates the writer William Wogan, a vintner called Robert Witham, and the Reverend Patrick Cockburn. In 1719, a house was rented in Petty France, to accommodate the new Infirmary for the Sick and Needy, which opened in 1720 with 10 beds. The following document, which may be styled the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Matrons' Council For Great Britain And Ireland
The Matrons' Council for Great Britain and Ireland was established in 1894 during the campaign for the registration of nurses and was disbanded c.1955. Margaret Huxley (1854–1940) was a founder member. as was Isla Stewart (1856-1910). Agnes Karll (1868–1927) of Germany was named an honorary member for her role in nursing reform and advancing the nursing profession. The council was represented on the Central Committee for the State Registration of Nurses in 1908. The Matrons' Council regularly reported their activities in The British Journal of Nursing up to 1956, however around this time the Council disbanded References {{reflist Nursing organisations in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom#Modern honours, knight if male or a dame (title), dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with the order, but are not members of it. The order was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V, who created the order to recognise 'such persons, male or female, as may have rendered or shall hereafter render important services to Our Empire'. Equal recognition was to be given for services rendered in the UK and overseas. Today, the majority of recipients are UK citizens, though a number of Commonwealth realms outside the UK continue to make appointments to the order. Honorary awards may be made to cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |