At this the Matrons' Committee split between one group which supported the Hospitals Association and another faction, led by Ethel Gordon Fenwick, which opposed the new register and sought to align themselves more closely with the medical profession. In 1887, the Hospitals Association over-ruled the matrons and established a non-statutory voluntary register. The Matrons' Committee, comprising the matrons 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.
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Support for the regulation of nursing began to become more widespread following the establishment of organised nurse training in 1860.īy the 1880s, the Hospitals Association (an early version of the NHS Confederation) was committed to the principle of registration for nurses. the whole question of the Registration of trained nurses to be set forth in a succinct form before the profession and the public". That year, the Nursing Record (renamed the British Journal of Nursing in 1902), a nursing journal, called for
When state registration of the medical profession had begun in 1858, many observers pointed to the need for a similar system for nursing. For her contribution to Army statistics and comparative hospital statistics in 1860, Nightingale became the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Statistical Society.ġ858–1902 Professionalisation When Nightingale returned from the Crimean War in August 1856, she hid herself away from the public's attention. She introduced sanitary protocols and reduced the casualty rate by fifty percent. 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. Initially the doctors did not want the nurses there and did not ask for their help, but within ten days fresh casualties arrived from the Battle of Inkermann and the nurses were fully stretched. 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. In the Crimean War against Russia, Nightingale was appointed by Sir Sidney Herbert to oversee the introduction of female nurses into the military hospitals in Turkey. There, Nightingale received the training that enabled her in 1860 to establish, at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first school designed primarily to train nurses rather than to provide nursing service for the hospital. There was no hospital training school for nurses until one was established in Kaiserwerth, Germany, in 1846. Florence Nightingale įlorence Nightingale is regarded as the founder of modern nursing profession. In 1866 there were a total of 53 nurses employed in the 11 metropolitan workhouses, at an average salary of £20 18s. Nursing in the Poor Law infirmaries, such as it was, was largely carried out by able-bodied paupers, who were not paid. 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. Matrons, whose work was largely administrative, were even more so. The designation 'sister' occurred consequent to the ministry of 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). Facilities in hospitals were poor, though some began to provide meals for nurses. Pay in London voluntary hospitals was between 6 shillings and 9s 6d a week, with some board and lodging.
Nineteenth century īefore the advent of training, nursing was often casual and low paid. Remnants of the religious nature of nurses remains in Britain today, especially with the retention of the job title " Sister" for a senior female nurse. These women had no real training by today's standards, but experience taught them valuable skills, especially in the use of herbs and folk drugs, and some gained fame as the physicians of their era. 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 history of nursing itself dates back to ancient history, when the sick were cared for in temples and places of worship. The history of nursing in the United Kingdom relates to the development of the profession since the 1850s.
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