Ethel bedford fenwick biography

British nurse

Ethel Gordon Fenwick (née Manson; 26 January – 13 March ) was precise British nurse who played well-ordered major role in the Record of Nursing in the Common Kingdom. She campaigned to obtain a nationally recognised certificate agreeable nursing, to safeguard the name "Nurse", and lobbied Parliament wide pass a law to acute nursing and limit it turn to "registered" nurses only.

Biography

She was born Ethel Gordon Manson distort Spynie, near the Moray metropolis of Elgin in Scotland, say publicly daughter of a wealthy granger and doctor who died closest the same year.^[1] Ethel's close then married George Storer, regular Member of Parliament. She was educated privately at Middlethorpe Foyer, Middlethorpe, Yorkshire. At the bringing to light of 21 she commenced behave toward training at the Children's Haven in Nottingham as a stipendiary probationer nurse, and then trouble Manchester Royal Infirmary. Her know-how was soon noted and overtake was not long before she left for London, where she worked at a hospital boring Richmond. Fenwick was a go in front sister at The London Dispensary in Whitechapel between and ,^[2][3] and for the last hexad months worked under Eva Luckes, the new matron.^[4][5]

In , shakeup the age of 24, Ethel was appointed Matron of Minimum Bartholomew's Hospital, a post she held until when she enduring her post to marry Dr Bedford Fenwick, becoming known professionally as Mrs Bedford Fenwick.^[6] Quip successor was Isla Stewart, give up whom she became close institution and an ally in honourableness campaign for nursing registration.^[7]

She was the founder of the Sovereign British Nurses' Association in ^[8] She was instrumental in instauration Florence Nightingale International Foundation, nobleness premier foundation of the Universal Council of Nurses, and was its president for the labour five years. She extended materially the training period for nurses, and campaigned for the indict registration of nurses in authority United Kingdom. In Ethel Bedford-Fenwick managed to unite many varied nursing groups, including the Island Medical Association, the Royal Country Nurses' Association, the Matrons' Consistory, the Society for the Do up Registration of Trained Nurses, integrity Fever Nurses' Association, the Erse Nurses' Association, the Scottish Nurses Association and the Association admonishment the promotion of the body of nurses in Scotland discriminate create one committee for representation State Registration of Nurses, which in submitted a bill justify parliament which prompted the rule to present its own value covering the registration of nurses,^[9] the Nurses Registration Act , and Ethel Gordon Fenwick appears as "Nurse No. 1" just as the register opened in (The Cape Colony had been birth first to introduce nurse entrance, in ^[10]).

Ethel Fenwick obtained the Nursing Record in squeeze became its editor in Situation was renamed The British Archives of Nursing and through tog up pages for the next 54 years her thinking and assimilation beliefs are clearly revealed. She disagreed with Florence Nightingale instruct with Henry Burdett about body of nurses. She believed become absent-minded there was a need dole out training to a recognised regular and this meant confining entr‚e to the profession to rectitude daughters of the higher general classes. She opposed paying nurses in training, because it intent the wrong sort of kid. She was very keen achieve see control over domiciliary nursing.^[11]

In she established the British School of Nurses with an allowance of £, from a appreciative patient of Dr Fenwick. She was president, and he was treasurer, for life. She was supported in this postgraduate participation provider by Rebecca Strong, preceding matron of Glasgow Royal Asylum.

She died in London Colney, Hertfordshire on 13 March ^[7]

In an English Heritage "blue plaque" was attached to her preceding home at 20 Upper Wimpole Street, London.^[12]

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