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Ethel Gordon Fenwick (née Manson; 26 January 1857 – 13 March 1947) was a British nurse who played a major role in the History of Nursing in the United Kingdom.She campaigned to procure a nationally recognised certificate for nursing, to safeguard the title "Nurse", and lobbied Parliament to pass a law to control nursing and limit it to "registered" nurses only.
Ethel Gordon Fenwick was the first nurse on the English register. The National Asylum Workers' Union organised strikes at Prestwich Hospital, Whittingham Hospital and Bodmin Hospital 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 ...
1923 – The Nursing Act of 1919 becomes effective and Ethel Gordon Fenwick is the first nurse registered in the UK. 1923 – Yale School of Nursing becomes the first school of nursing to adopt the Rockefeller Commission recommendations for curriculum was based on an educational plan rather than on hospital service needs. [55]
The Royal British Nurses' Association was founded in December 1887 by Ethel Bedford-Fenwick, with leading matrons from voluntary, local authority and military hospitals including; Isla Stewart of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Godiva Thorold of the Middlesex Hospital, Miss Hogg of Haslar Hospital and Anne Gibson of Brownlow Hill Infirmary, Liverpool [1] [2]
Ethel Gordon Fenwick, Matron 1881–1887 [31] [32] [33] Isla Stewart, Matron 1887–1910 [34] [35] [36] Rachel Annie Cox Davies CBE, night sister, home sister and sister of Faith Ward (1896-9); first secretary of the League of St. Bartholomew's Nurses and founding member of the Royal College of Nursing [37]
The ragtag members of the Kennedy clan turned out Monday for the funeral of Ethel Kennedy — the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, and the last link to the family's days of "Camelot" in the White House.
Ethel campaigned for Robert’s older brother John F. Kennedy when he ran for Congress in 1946, and soon became engaged to Robert. They married in 1950, and had their first child, Kathleen, a year ...
He was the eldest child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, and his two siblings were John and Ethel; these and other family members were part of an acting dynasty. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Reluctant to follow his parents' career, [ 4 ] Barrymore appeared together with his grandmother Louisa Lane Drew in a stage production of The ...