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Nursing in the United Kingdom is the largest health care profession in the country. It has evolved from assisting doctors to encompass a variety of professional roles. Over 700,000 nurses practice, [1] working in settings such as hospitals, health centres, nursing homes, hospices, communities, military, prisons, and academia.
The Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine (est.1848) and the All Saints Sisters of the Poor (1851) provided the nursing staff for several of London's largest teaching hospitals, including Kings College, Charing Cross and University College Hospitals until close to the end of the century.
The College of Nursing Ltd was founded on 27 March 1916, with 34 members, as a professional organisation for trained nurses. [5] On a proposal from Dame Sarah Swift (then matron of Guy's Hospital) and Arthur Stanley, chairman of the Joint War Organisation, developed with Rachael Cox-Davies (matron of the Royal Free Hospital) and Alicia Lloyd-Still (matron of St. Thomas Hospital) the College ...
The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is the most senior advisor on nursing matters in a government. There are CNOs in the United Kingdom who are appointed to advise their respective governments: His Majesty's Government , the Northern Ireland Executive , the Scottish Government , and the Welsh Government .
Dame Alicia Lloyd Still,DBE, RRC matron and superintendent of St. Thomas's Hospital 1913-1937, founding member of the College of Nursing (later the Royal College of Nursing), one of the leaders of the campaign for state registration of nurses in the UK, appointed then elected to the General Nursing Council (1920-1937), [25] helped found the ...
The School was formed in 2008 when the nursing and midwifery college merged with the allied health sciences departments. [citation needed]The School of Nursing and Midwifery dates its history to the schools of St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal London Hospital, the former of which began training in 1867, [1] formalised into a School in 1877. [2]
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 [1] [2]
Plaques listing Matrons of Manchester Royal Infirmary. 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, [1] matron, [2] nursing officer, [3] or clinical nurse manager in UK English; the head nurse or director of nursing in US English, [4 ...