Florence Nellie Udell,

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, RGN, SRN, FRSH, FSCM was a British nurse, nursing administrator and government official.

Career

Florence Udell served as Secretary to the RCN's organisation in Scotland in 1931. In 1944 Udell was appointed Chief Nurse in the Health Division of the European Regional Officer of the

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(UNRRA). She would later go on to serve as

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Chief Nursing Officer (COCNO) and as Nursing Adviser at the

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. The

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received advice on nursing from a number of bodies, particularly its Expert Nursing Committees. The first, in 1950, had both Udell, and another nurse, Olive Baggallay, as members, and made a series of statements, which were to be echoed, in one form or another, over several decades. :''Nurses are needed in greater numbers than other categories of health workers because they have direct, individualized, and lasting contact with people, sick and well. In this sense, nurses are the final agents of health services ... the stage of development of nursing varies greatly from culture to culture...''

Awards

Udell was awarded an MBE (1941), OBE (1958) and a CBE (1968).

RCN Presidency

Udell served as President of the RCN from 1964 to 1966 as principal nurse in charge of the British section of the United Nations Rehabilitation and Relief Administration (UNRRA).Northwest NHF website (PDF document)
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References

External links

* '' Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health''
Vol. 74, No. 9, pp. 914-915 (1954) excerptNorthwest NHF website (PDF document)
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