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- The Nurses Registration Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 94) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. It set up the General Nursing Council, and was the culmination of a long campaign led by Ethel Gordon Fenwick to establish a register of nurses.
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Oct 8, 2019 · The centenary of the introduction of registration provides a fitting opportunity to reflect on the importance of the standards and precedents set by the 1919 Nurses’ Registration Act and understand how they remain paramount to nursing in the UK today.
- Timeline: The road to nurse registration in the UK | Nursing ...
December 2019 marks 100 years since the passing of the...
- Timeline: The road to nurse registration in the UK | Nursing ...
Dec 4, 2019 · On 22 December 1919, all of the changes were ratified. The next day, the Nurses Registration Act (s) became law, creating three General Nursing Councils (one for England and Wales, one for Scotland and one for Ireland). Each council would compile a register of qualified nurses.
Oct 7, 2019 · December 2019 marks 100 years since the passing of the Nurses’ Registration Act, which led to the opening of a compulsory register for nurses two years later. Below is a list of the key dates and developments on the road to regulation.
The council was required to maintain a register of nurses. The register distinguished between different specialities, such as mental health nursing and paediatric nursing, as well as containing a general register for all those trained in general nursing and a supplementary register for male nurses.
- Who Was Ethel Gordon Fenwick?
- Professionalisation of Nursing
- The Register of Nurses
- Records Held at The National Archives
- Further Reading
Ethel Gordon Fenwick was born Ethel Gordon Manson in Morayshire, Scotland on 26 January 1857. She grew up in a well-off household and chose to dedicate her life to nursing. In the 19th century access to training and education in nursing depended upon the social standing of the nurse. For someone like Fenwick, from a middle or upper-class background...
In the 19th century nursing had undergone a shift towards professionalisation. The first professional school of nursing was founded at St. Thomas’s Hospital in 1860 by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who sought to improve the status and proficiency of nursing following her experience in the Crimean War (1853-1856). Read more about Nightingale in ...
The register was initially divided into the general part, reserved for female nurses, with supplementary parts for fever nurses, male nurses, mental health nurses and sick children’s nurses. The books were updated to include new information such as change of name by marriage or removal from the register for non-payment of the retaining fee (until t...
Before the establishment of the General Nursing Council, records of nurses were kept by individual nurse training schools, most of which were attached to major hospitals. Many surviving records from hospitals are still to be found in local archives. For more information see our research guidance on records relating to Doctors and Nurses. The Nation...
Winifred Hector, The Work of Mrs Bedford Fenwick and the Rise of Professional Nursing(London, Royal College of Nursing, 1973) Susan McGann, The Battle of the Nurses(London, Scutari Press, 1992)
We began as the College of Nursing in 1916, a professional organisation with just 34 members and within three short years had secured our first parliamentary success. The Nurses’ Act was passed and the first ever nurses’ register created, meaning the public could now be confident that their newly registered nurses were trained to a ...
Dec 23, 2019 · The nursing community will today celebrate a major milestone in its history, the centenary of legislation being passed in 1919 that ushered in UK nurse registration. The registration of nurses resulted from a bill introduced to parliament by the then government health minister, Dr Christopher Addison, which was passed on 23 December 1919.
