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707:, N. Ireland died in service. Ruth Hannah Dickson had served in WW1. She re-joined the QA/Rs in Singapore having been a missionary in China. The evacuation ship she was aboard was hit by a Japanese U-boat as it left Singapore. She survived the attack to be taken Prisoner of War and died in a concentration camp in 1944. Ellen Lowry and Ida Nelson were nursing with the Colonial Service in Singapore. Their ship was also attacked leaving Singapore and they drowned. Doreen Pedlow QA was aboard a ship leaving Singapore when it too was hit. Doreen drifted for three days on a raft before she died. Beatrice Dowling was serving with the Naval Nursing Service in Singapore when she too died at sea. TheirIne 5 names are on the Roll of Honour in Westminster Abbey. At the outbreak of WW2 there were 640 nurses attached to QAIMNS. By the end of the war this number had risen through the recruitment of reservists to 12,000. 703:(QAIMNS), as they had during World War I, and as they remain today. (Nurses belonging to the QAIMNS are informally called "QA"s.) Members of the Army Nursing Service served in every overseas British military campaign during World War II, as well as at military hospitals in Britain. At the beginning of World War II, nurses held officer status with equivalent rank, but were not commissioned officers. In 1941, emergency commissions and a rank structure were created, conforming with the structure used in the rest of the British Army. Nurses were given rank badges and were now able to be promoted to ranks from Lieutenant through to Brigadier. Nurses were exposed to all dangers during the War, and some were captured and became prisoners of war.Two hundred and thirty-six nurses died as a consequence of the war. Five nurses who trained at the 77:
religious sisters who were recruited separately from nurses and were more respectable, honest and conscientiously devoted to the welfare of patients (which often brought them into conflict with the hospital authorities). Matrons, whose work was largely administrative, were even more so. 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.
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All led to SRN... State Registration in addition to a Degree (either B.Sc or B.A. Some also included additional certifications such as: Certificate in Obstetrics (Newcastle), Certificate in Health Visiting ( Liverpool) Student nurses on these courses were unpaid, but may have been eligible for mandatory/ concessionary student grants. Unlike traditional hospital training courses which took 3yrs, a Nursing Degree course lasted between 4 and 4.5 yrs.
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almost entirely mental nurses and were not admitted to nurse training schools. Nurses in workhouses were paid about £17 a year. Hospital nurses in 1902 were paid around £19 a year, but the cost of maintenance, laundry, uniforms and accommodation which were provided was around £30 a year. In domiciliary work two guineas a week with meals provided was normal pay, and the work was easier. In hospitals 12-hour days were normal.
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Almost as an afterthought, Briggs also recommended the replacement of the existing regulatory structure (involving nine separate bodies across the United Kingdom) with a unified central council and separate boards in each of the four countries with specific responsibility for education. Six years of debate and delay followed before the modified Briggs proposals formed the basis of the
495:(VAD) nurses who had been enrolled by the Red Cross. The ranks that were created for the new nursing services were Matron-in-Chief, Principal Matron, Sister and Staff Nurses. Women joined steadily throughout the War. At the end of 1914, there were 2,223 regular and reserve members of the QAIMNS and when the war ended there were 10,404 trained nurses in the QAIMNS. 204:, which opposed the new register and sought to align themselves more closely with the medical profession. Florence Nightingale, incidentally, supported neither group and was opposed to any form of regulation for nursing, believing that the essential qualities of the nurse could neither be taught, examined nor regulated. 945:, provide guidance to registrants, and handle professional misconduct complaints. At the same time, National Boards were created for each of the UK countries. Their main functions were to monitor the quality of nursing and midwifery education courses, and to maintain the training records of students on these courses. 357:(often called Zulu War) from 1879 to 1881. They were also dispatched to serve during the Egyptian Campaign in 1882 and the Sudan War of 1883 to 1884. During the Sudan War members of the Army Nursing Service nursed in hospital ships on the Nile as well as the Citadel in Cairo. Almost 2000 nurses served during the second 631:
was appointed to chair a committee of inquiry into the arrangements for "recruitment, training and registration and terms and conditions of service" for nurses. It found that about 12,000 new recruits were needed each year. It recommended higher pay, a 96-hour fortnight and four weeks holiday a year,
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of the leading hospitals, agreed with registration, but differed in their views of the required length of training, arguing for three years as opposed to the one supported by the Hospitals Association. In 1887, the Hospitals Association over-ruled the matrons and established a non-statutory voluntary
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Some Polytechnics and Universities started to offer Degrees in Nursing, which combined higher level study and practical clinical ward based training. Newcastle Polytechnic, Leeds Polytechnic, Manchester University, London University and Liverpool University were the first. Each course was different.
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to oversee the introduction of female nurses into the military hospitals in Turkey. In November 1854, Nightingale arrived at the Barrack Hospital at Scutari, with a party of ten nurses and ten religious sisters, Anglican and Roman Catholic. Initially the doctors did not want the nurses there and did
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In 2017 the student nurse bursary was abolished in England and Wales, resulting in a 23% fall in the number of nurse degree applicants. Northern Ireland retained the bursary and applications remained steady at an average of 10 applicants per year for every one commissioned place on an undergraduate
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of those devoted and self-sacrificing women whose whole lives have been devoted to tending the sick, the suffering, and the dying". In the same speech, she warned about opposition and misrepresentation they had encountered. Although the RBNA was in favour of registration as a means of enhancing and
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The armed forces estimated at the beginning of the war that they needed 5000 trained nurses. Up to 67,000 were thought to be needed to care for the expected air-raid casualties. This was more than the number of trained nurses in employment. A Civil Nursing Reserve was set up - 7000 trained nurses,
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established the first two year training scheme in London. She instituted a series of lectures by herself, a surgeon and a physician. In 1884 she introduced the precursor to Sister -Tutors, and selected two of her most trusted and skilled hospital sisters to give probationers extra tuition. Before
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and the nurses were fully stretched. Nightingale was horrified at what she found in the makeshift hospital: doctors reusing infected rags, the used rags just remaining in a pile, soldiers left unwashed and bleeding. She introduced sanitary protocols and reduced the casualty rate by fifty percent.
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In 1901 there were 3,170 paid nurses employed in workhouses, with about 2,000 probationers - about one nurse for 20 patients. In total there were about 63,500 female nurses and 5,700 male nurses in England and Wales, working both in institutions and, the majority, in patients homes. The men were
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The Briggs Committee was established in 1970 due to pressure from the RCN to consider issues around the quality and nature of nurse training and the place of nursing within the NHS, rather than regulation per se. It reported in 1972 and recommended a number of changes to professional education.
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was between 6 shillings and 9s 6d a week, with some board and lodging. Outside London pay was much lower. Few nurses were described as educated. Facilities in hospitals were poor, though some began to provide meals for nurses. The designation 'sister' occurred consequent to the ministry of
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The First World War provided the final impetus to the establishment of nursing regulation, partly because of the specific contribution made by nurses to the war effort and also as a reflection of the increased contribution of women more generally in society. The College of Nursing (later the
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3000 assistant nurses and also nursing auxiliaries. The auxiliaries were given fifty hours training in hospital before they started work. After protests it was agreed that they should not do domestic work. 6,200 from the Civil Nursing Reserve were working in hospitals in June 1940.
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When Nightingale returned from the Crimean War in August 1856, she hid herself away from the public's attention. For her contribution to Army statistics and comparative hospital statistics in 1860, Nightingale became the first woman to be elected a fellow of the
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adopted a "Nurses’ Charter", demanding a 96-hour fortnight, improvement of the amenities of nurses’ homes and arguing that nurses should be able to live out. At that time the average nurse was working 104 hours per fortnight. The
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Therefore, two separate voluntary registers now existed. Whereas that maintained by the Hospitals Association was purely an administrative list, the register established by the BNA had a more explicit public protection remit.
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produced its first draft policy statement on the profession in 1926, advocating a 48-hour week, the separation of training schools from hospitals and advocating that the profession should be organised on Trade Union lines.
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Following the EU referendum in 2016 nurse applicants from European countries fell by 96%. In actual numbers in July 2016 1,304 nurses from the EU joined the Nursing and Midwifery Council register, whereas in April 2017 46
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111,501 women and 11,000 men declared that they were nurses. The registration regime stopped the very small hospitals from offering training. The first national examination was in 1925. About 40% of the candidates failed.
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The bill was finally passed in December 1919 and separate Nurses Registration Acts were passed for England/Wales, Scotland and Ireland, which was still part of the United Kingdom at the time. These acts established the
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The pressure for state registration grew throughout the 1890s but was undermined by disagreements within the profession over the desired form and purpose of the regulatory system. In 1902, the Midwives Registration
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includes dates of creation which illustrate the historic development of nursing. The list includes a section on historic nursing organisations in the UK that lists organisations that no longer exist.
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established for nursing. Pay for student nurses was set at £200 with a deduction of £100, and for staff nurses £315, rising by increments to £415 with a deduction of £120 for board and lodging.
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The committee reported in 1904 and set out a detailed and persuasive case for registration. However, the government sat on the report and took no action. Over the next decade, a number of
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Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes's influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)
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By 2001, nearly half of the newly registered nurses were immigrants, especially from the Philippines, India, South Africa, Australia and Nigeria, as compared to 10% in 1990,
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in 1918. It threatened to organise strikes in all the London asylums in support of a 48-hour week in 1919. The Professional Union of Trained Nurses was founded in 1919.
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misgivings, lack of consensus within the professions (especially from midwives), and a lack of government will to find the parliamentary time to enact the legislation.
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guaranteeing the professional status of trained nurses, its incorporation with the Privy Council allowed it to maintain a list rather than a formal register of nurses.
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Numbers of male nurses increased as demobilised service men with medical experience join the profession. By 1949 there were about 1300 registered male nurses.
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Solano, Diana, and Anne Marie Rafferty. "Can lessons be learned from history? The origins of the British imperial nurse labour market: A discussion paper."
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When state registration of the medical profession had begun in 1858, many observers pointed to the need for a similar system for nursing. That year, the
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McGann, Susan. The battle of the nurses: a study of eight women who influenced the development of professional nursing, 1880–1930. Scutari Press, 1992.
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The Ministry of Health guaranteed a salary of £40 to nursing students in training, about double what voluntary hospitals were paying before the war.
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and the removal of unreasonable restrictions on nurses life. It advocated more domestic staff and that grants should be made from public funds to
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Janet Lee, "A Nurse and a Soldier: Gender, Class and National Identity in the First World War Adventures of Grace McDougall and Flora Sandes,"
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By the beginning of the First World War in 1914, military nursing still had only a small role for women in Britain; 10,500 nurses enrolled in
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This structure survived with minor modifications until April 2002, when the UKCC ceased to exist and its functions were taken over by a new
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and leading public figures. In a speech Helena made in 1893, she made clear that the RBNA was working towards "improving the education and
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In 1960 the University of Edinburgh was the 1st UK higher education institution to offer a pre-registration bachelor’s degree in nursing
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register. At this the Matrons' Committee split between one group which supported the Hospitals Association and another faction, led by
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Support for the regulation of nursing began to become more widespread following the establishment of organised nurse training in 1860.
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United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC) becomes the profession's new regulatory body in 1983.
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that the matron was the head of an independent operation, controlling her own staff and reporting directly to the hospital committee.
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Florence Nightingale is regarded as the founder of modern nursing profession. There was no hospital training school for nurses until
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Collins; Parker (Spring 2003). "A Victorian matron; no ordinary woman. Eva Charlotte Ellis Lückes, 8 July 1854 – 16 February 1919".
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based on her military field experience. The success of the team's response is credited with inspiring the development of the use of
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138,670 women and 15,000 men declared that they were nurses. 88% of the women were single, 5% married and 7% widowed or divorced.
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for England and Wales and the other bodies which survived intact until the legislative changes in 1979 which were to create the
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and admitted and cared for military patients. Beginning in 1866, nurses were formally appointed to Military General Hospitals.
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Thanks to increased funding, in 2006 383,000 qualified nurses and midwives were employed by the NHS, a 24% gain over 1997.
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Quality with compassion : the future of nursing education. Report of the Willis Commission on Nursing Education 2012
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Quality with compassion : the future of nursing education. Report of the Willis Commission on Nursing Education 2012
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of their era. Remnants of the religious nature of nurses remains in Britain today, especially with the retention of the
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Sweet, Helen. "Establishing Connections, Restoring Relationships: Exploring the Historiography of Nursing in Britain,"
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Historical Investigations into the Professional Self-Regulation of Nursing and Midwifery: 1860–2002. Vol. One: Nursing
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Elizabeth Goodrick, and Trish Reay. "Florence Nightingale endures: Legitimizing a new professional role identity."
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Mass meetings are held over pay, the state of the NHS, clinical grading and the abolition of the enrolled nurse.
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abolishes the legal separation of psychiatric hospitals, allowing those patients to be admitted to any hospital.
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The First World War results in large numbers of unmarried women, many of whom devote their lives to nursing.
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In 1983, the UKCC was set up. Its core functions were to maintain a register of UK nurses, midwives and
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in 1893. This became the blueprint for nurses education following the Nurses Registration Act of 1919.
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Distinctness of Idea and Firmness of Purpose. The Career of Eva Luckes; A Victorian Hospital Matron.
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Nightingale laid the foundations of professional nursing with the principles summarised in the book
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In 1935 county councils began training courses for assistant nurses to care for the chronic sick.
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designed primarily to train nurses rather than to provide nursing service for the hospital.
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In the Company of Nurses: The History of the British Army Nursing Service in the Great War
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to establish regulation were introduced but all failed to achieve significant support in
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introduced a standard 54 hour week for nurses and in 1938 moved to a 96-hour fortnight.
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Nursing students are given supernumary status throughout their three years of training.
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upon its foundation in 1887. In 1891, it received the prefix "Royal", and received the
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Before the advent of training, nursing was often casual and low paid. Pay in London
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The Salmon report calls for reform to nurse grading, initiating the end of matrons.
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establishes an ethos based on assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.
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The Hospitals 1800–1948: A Study in Social Administration in England and Wales
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not ask for their help, but within ten days fresh casualties arrived from the
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worked 117 hours a fortnight in London and 119 in the provinces. In 1936 the
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Behind the Blue Door: The History of the Royal College of Midwives 1881–1981
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Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain
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The associated Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Association is a
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The Project 2000 nurse: the remaking of British general nursing, 1978-2000
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passed the bill allowing formal nurse registration. What resulted was the
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Summers, A. "Pride and Prejudice: Ladies and Nurses in the Crimean War",
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Peggy Donaldson, Yes Matron, A History of Nurses and Nursing at the
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council takes over from the UKCC in 2002.
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The Nurses Salaries Committee was established in October 1941 with
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relates to the development of the profession since the 1850s. The
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In 2009 Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) were entitled to commission.
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By the 1880s, the Hospitals Association (an early version of the
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War girls: the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the First World War
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Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854–1914
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Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854–1914
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By 1959 most hospital nurses were working an 88-hour fortnight.
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Large influx of Caribbean entrants into British nurse training.
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formally recognised, with two years' training instead of three.
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City University London School of Community and Health Sciences
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Following the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the new Queen,
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demanding better pay, and win increases of up to 58 per cent.
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Nurse employers inspected for staff-friendly policies under
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Princess Helena and The Royal British Nurses' Association
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In 2005 nurse numbers hit 397,500 – an all-time high.
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Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service.
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Male nurses join the main nursing register in 1951.
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Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service
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history of nursing
ancient history
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early Christian era
nursing in the United Kingdom
Christian Church
herbs
physicians
job title
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voluntary hospitals
Poor Law infirmaries
workhouses
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St Thomas' Hospital
first school
Crimean War
Sir Sidney Herbert
Battle of Inkermann
Betsi Cadwaladr
Mary Seacole
Statistical Society
British Journal of Nursing
NHS Confederation
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