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Ethel Gordon Fenwick (apellido de soltera: Manson; 26 de enero de 1857 - 13 de marzo de 1947) fue una enfermera británica que tuvo un papel destacado en la historia de la enfermería de su país.
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.
Ethel Gordon Fenwick, née Manson, was a former matron of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London who spent 30 years campaigning for the state registration of nurses. Ethel’s tireless efforts resulted in the Nurses Registration Act 1919, which brought nurses together under one profession.
Ethel Bedford Fenwick, escocesa, vivió de 1857 a 1947. Durante sus 90 años de vida tuvo un notable impacto en los círculos de la enfermería británica, teniendo una gran influencia en el cuidado del paciente en Enfermería.
- 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)
Ethel Gordon Fenwick, pionera inglesa de la reforma de la enfermería, fue una matrona y enfermera que pasó 30 años haciendo campaña para el registro estatal de enfermeras. Ethel como Florence Nightingale provenía de una familia acomodada y creció con cultura, refinamiento y riqueza.
Ethel Gordon Fenwick was the first nurse to sign the nursing register, which she had campaigned for. A service is due to take place to remember the life of a nursing pioneer who died 75...
