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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] |
Nursing Standard
''Nursing Standard'' is a weekly professional magazine that contains peer-reviewed articles and research, news, and career information for the nursing field. The magazine was founded in 1987. It is published by RCNi. The magazine is abstracted and indexed in CINAHL and MEDLINE/PubMed. See also * List of nursing journals References External links Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1987 General nursing journals Professional and trade magazines Royal College of Nursing publications {{nurse-journal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Annie Cox-Davies
Rachael Annie Cox-Davies CBE, RRC Bar (1862 – 1944) was a British nurse, matron of the Royal Free Hospital, a leader in establishing the nursing profession in the United Kingdom and founding member of the Royal College of Nursing. Early life She was born in Llangenny on 4 September 1862, the fourth of five children of attorney Edward Cox Davies and his wife Charlotte, ''née'' Homfray. Early nursing career Educated at the Anglican St Stephen's College, Clewer, she trained as a nurse, first at the Newport and County Hospital (1889–93) and then at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London (1893 to 1896) under the matron-ship of Isla Stewart. She held a number of posts over the next six years including night sister, home sister and sister of Faith ward. Cox-Davies was the first secretary of the newly formed League of St. Bartholomew's Nurses in 1899. She was granted leave of absence to join Princess Christian's Army Nursing Service in the South African War (1899-1902) firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nurses Salaries Committee
The Nurses Salaries Committee was the first official body to fix salary scales and conditions for nursing in England. It was founded in 1941, and ceased its activity with its last report in 1943. Henry Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe or Rushcliffe, as he was later known, was appointed by Ernest Brown the minister of health to chair the committee, which was established in October 1941. Membership The committee consisted of two panels, each of twenty members, one panel representing employers, the other employees. The employers panel consisted of the: * British Hospitals Association (in association with King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and the Nuffield Trust) 6 seats Bernard Docker, Muriel M Edwards, S Clayton Fryers ( Leeds General Infirmary), Gilbert G Panter, J P Wetenhall, S P Richardson (who was replaced by L Farrer Brown); * County Councils Association 4 seats W A Bullough, W B Cartwright, Wynne Cemlyn-Jones, T O Steventon; * Association of Municipal Corporatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Bill
Proposed bills are often categorized into public bills and private bills. A public bill is a proposed law which would apply to everyone within its jurisdiction. A private bill is a proposal for a law affecting only a single person, group, or area, such as a bill granting a named person citizenship or, previously, granting named persons a legislative divorce. Private law can afford relief from another law, grant a unique benefit or powers not available under the general law, or relieve someone from legal responsibility for some allegedly wrongful act. There are many examples of such private law in democratic countries, although its use has changed over time. A private bill is not to be confused with a private member's bill, which is a bill introduced by a "private member" of the legislature rather than by the ministry. In modern practice, private bills are mixed and have both private and public aspects. In such cases the proposed legislation is called a hybrid bill. Some pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union center, national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions that collectively represent most unionised workers in England and Wales. There are 48 affiliated unions with a total of about 5.5 million members. Paul Nowak (trade unionist), Paul Nowak is the TUC's current General Secretary, serving from January 2023. Organisation The TUC's decision-making body is the Annual Congress, which takes place in September. Between congresses decisions are made by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, General Council, which meets every two months. An Executive Committee is elected by the Council from its members. Affiliated unions can send delegates to Congress with the number of delegates they can send proportionate to their size. Each year Congress elects a President of the Trades Union Congress, who carries out the office for the remainder of the year and then presides over the following year's conference. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Goodall
Frances Goodall CBE (8 December 1893 – 22 July 1976) was a British nurse who was General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing and a founder of what became the Colostomy Association. Personal life and career Goodall was born in Dulwich in 1893 into a well off household. She was educated at home with her two brothers. Her family were in the medical profession and seeing her uncle at work made her decide to be a nurse. She spent two years teaching at Camden High School for Girls but then joined Guy's Hospital as a trainee nurse where her three uncles had also trained. She served in several roles as a sister before specialising in the treatment of eyes. In 1928 she became the assistant General Secretary of the College of Nursing, which was established with a Royal Charter that year. In 1935 Goodall became College of Nursing's General Secretary when the Trades Union Congress promoted a Bill to secure a 48-hour working week for all hospital employees. The college opposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Warren Gill
Annie Warren Gill & Bar (1862 – 2 March 1930) was a British nurse who served as president of the College of Nursing in 1927. Life Gill was born on the Isle of Man and trained as a nurse at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh eventually being appointed as a head nurse (later retitled sister). She left the Infirmary in 1900 during the Second Boer War to serve as matron of the Edinburgh South-East of Scotland Hospital that had been relocated to South Africa. On completion of her assignment in South Africa she resumed her role at the Royal Infirmary for a time before being asked to return to the country as matron of a concentration camp in the Orange River Colony, for which she received the Royal Red Cross in October 1901. Gill was a Principal Matron in the Territorial Army Nursing Service (2nd Scottish). In June 1903 Gill was appointed to the position of matron of the Royal Berkshire Hospital before being elected in 1907 by the board of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh as ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Nursing Council
General Nursing Councils for England & Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (then one country and part of the United Kingdom) were established by three country specific Nurses Registration Act 1919, Nurses Registration Acts 1919. Each General Nursing Council (GNC) was responsible for deciding the rules for: admission to the register; for the conditions of training of nurses; for qualifying examinations, for discipline, and the uniform of badge of nurses on the register. The composition of the first GNCs were to include: 2 appointees of the Privy Council (United Kingdom), Privy Council (with no associations to medicine or nursing), 2 appointees of the Board of Education (United Kingdom), Board of Education, 5 appointees of the Ministry of Health (United Kingdom), Ministry of Health and 16 nurses to be appointed by the Minister of Health (United Kingdom), Minister of Health. The Acts stated that the first Councils' term should be no longer than three years and the subsequent 16 nurses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Gordon Fenwick
Ethel Gordon Fenwick (née Manson; 26 January 1857 – 13 March 1947) was a British nurse who played a major role in the History of Nursing in the United Kingdom. She campaigned to procure a nationally recognised certificate for nursing, to safeguard the title "Nurse", and lobbied Parliament to pass a law to control nursing and limit it to "registered" nurses only. Biography She was born Ethel Gordon Manson in Spynie, near the Moray town of Elgin in Scotland, the daughter of a wealthy farmer and doctor who died later the same year. Ethel's mother then married George Storer, a Member of Parliament. She was educated privately at Middlethorpe Hall, Middlethorpe, Yorkshire. At the age of 21 she commenced nurse training at the Children's Hospital in Nottingham as a paying probationer nurse, and then at Manchester Royal Infirmary. Her expertise was soon noted and it was not long before she left for London, where she worked at a hospital in Richmond. Fenwick was a ward sister at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Margaret Elwyn Sparshott
Margaret Elwyn Sparshott (4 August 1870 – 9 October 1940) was a British nurse. She was the principal matron of Manchester Royal Infirmary, and of the Territorial Force Nursing Service at Manchester, England. During the First World War, she used 2nd Western General Hospital as a base, and had the assistance of St John Ambulance, the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VADs) and the Red Cross. Within this framework she was responsible for the running of twenty-two large auxiliary hospitals, including the field hospitals for the war wounded, in Stockport, Salford and Manchester. Her duty extended to coping with increased patient numbers during the 1918–1920 flu pandemic. Sparshott was one of the instrumental founding members of the Royal College of Nursing. As a member she campaigned for appropriate pay and training systems for nurses, and was its president in 1930–1933. Sparshott never married, and her dedication to her career brought her appointment as Commander of the Order of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
