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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.
He acted as trustee and treasurer, [2] [4] while Mrs. Bedford Fenwick was the president. The aims of the College were "efficient professional and civic education, economic security, legal protection, social and benevolent help". [2] Ethel Bedford Fenwick died in 1947 and the BCN closed in 1956. [5]
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.
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]
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]
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Her continuing friendship with Ethel Fenwick and other London acquaintances had already seen her become a founder member of the Royal British Nurses' Association (1887), of the Matrons' Council for Great Britain and Ireland (1894) and of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) (1899). She was also a leading figure in the Irish Matrons ...