Women Flashcards
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Nursing
Qualification
Wars
Nightingale and scutari
Brought respect to the industry
38 nurses 300 scrubbing brushes
Lady with the lamp
Effect of nightingale on death rate
42%-2%
Institutions after Scutari
Royal army medical corps, 90,000 staff by 1914
Publications
Notes on Nursing 1859
Notes on Hospitals 1863
200 leaflets
Led to specialisation eg great or mind street
Garret Anderson struggle to qualify
1836 medical act needed degree but can’t get one for women
Rejected by Edinburgh and St. Andrews
1961 passed apothecaries exam but no qualification
Studied in pairs and forced her way onto the register 1969
Inspiration of Garret Anderson
Sophia jex Blake who set up medical school for women
Law passed saying women shouldn’t be excluded “on the grounds of their sex”
212 women by 1914
Qams
1902 queen Alexandraias imperial medical service, military nursing organisation
Fanys
1918 first aid national yeomanry worked in the field at clearing stations
VAD’s
38,000 women as ambulance drivers
War presents opportunity for qualifying
78 in 1917 621 in 1921 alone
Training of nurses
200 trained as anaesetists
Edith carrel
Killed by the Germans, received full military honours