231:, and was its president for the first five years. She extended significantly the training period for nurses, and campaigned for the state registration of nurses in the United Kingdom. In 1910 Ethel Bedford-Fenwick managed to unite many diverse nursing groups, including the British Medical Association, the Royal British Nurses' Association, the Matrons' Council, the Society for the State Registration of Trained Nurses, the Fever Nurses' Association, the Irish Nurses' Association, the Scottish Nurses Association and the Association of the promotion of the registration of nurses in Scotland to create one committee for the State Registration of Nurses, which in 1919 submitted a bill to parliament which prompted the government to present its own bill covering the registration of nurses, the
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about registration of nurses. She believed that there was a need for training to a recognised standard and this meant confining entry to the profession to the daughters of the higher social classes. She opposed paying nurses in training, because it attracted the wrong sort of girl. She was very
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