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The History of Nursing in the British Empire - Primary Source Edition (2014) Webster, C. "Nursing and the Crisis of the Early National Health Service," Bulletin of the History of Nursing Group (1985) 7:4-12. White, R. ed. Political Issues in Nursing: Past, Present and Future (John Wiley and Sons. 1985)
The history of nursing itself dates back to ancient history, when the sick were cared for in temples and places of worship. In the early Christian era , nursing in the United Kingdom was undertaken by certain women in the Christian Church , their services being extended to patients in their homes.
The dominance of the College in negotiations regarding the newly-formed National Health Service (where hospital nurses on the General Register of Nursing dominated) was at odds with its position in the National Council of Nursing. At the 1957 International Council of Nurses congress in Rome, the British group split its votes on nursing issues.
Established on 9 July 1860 by Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, it was a model for many similar training schools through the UK, Commonwealth and other countries for the latter half of the 19th century. [4] It is primarily concerned with the education of people to become nurses and midwives.
1923 – The Nursing Act of 1919 becomes effective and Ethel Gordon Fenwick is the first nurse registered in the UK. 1923 – Yale School of Nursing becomes the first school of nursing to adopt the Rockefeller Commission recommendations for curriculum was based on an educational plan rather than on hospital service needs. [55]
The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...
At the end there is a list of historic nursing organisations. This list is based on the British Library UK Web Archive Nursing Collection. [1] This list does not include any of the 80+ providers of nursing education courses, these can be searched via UCAS. [2] Neither does it include NHS nursing departments or directorates.
Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century: The Quest for Independence (2010) Hay, Ian. One Hundred Years of Army Nursing (1953) McEwen, Yvonne. In the Company of Nurses: The History of the British Army Nursing Service in the Great War (2014) Noakes, Lucy. Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948 (2006) Piggott ...