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May 12, 2021 · The first nurse to appear on the register was Ethel Gordon Fenwick, a woman who had spent the past 30 years campaigning for the state registration of nurses. But what was her role in the...
Ethel, then aged 62, watched it happen from the public gallery in the House of Commons. Fittingly, her name was the first to join the register, and she is still remembered as State Registered Nurse No. 1. Even after the 1919 Act was passed, Ethel kept driving the professionalisation of nursing.
Aug 9, 2019 · A matron at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the late 19th century. The fight for registration. Following her marriage, Mrs Bedford Fenwick stopped practising as a nurse and began what would become a thirty-two year campaign for the introduction of a compulsory nurses’ register.
Ethel was the first professional registered nurse in the UK and started her training at Nottingham Children’s Hospital when she was 21. ‘She set the foundations of where we are today.’ As a young child, Ethel moved from Scotland to Nottinghamshire where she grew up in Thoroton in the Vale of Belvoir.
Sep 30, 2021 · 100 years ago today (30th September 2021), Ethel Bedford Fenwick became the first Registered Nurse. She campaigned for 30 years to create registration and the General Nursing Council. A remarkable achievement and an icon for our profession. The Company of Nurses salutes you SRN1.
Grace McDougall (1887–1963) was the eneretic commandant of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), which had formed in 1907 as an auxiliary to the home guard in Britain. McDougall at one point was captured by the Germans but escaped.
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Ethel Gordon Fenwick was the first UK registered nurse. Born in 1847, Ethel fought for the recognition and regulation of nurses by campaigning in parliament against the nurses’ roll; seen as a lesser form of regulation than full registration.
