Dame Margaret June Clark, (born 31 May 1941) is Professor Emeritus of Community Nursing, at

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Career

Before her retirement in 2003 Clark was responsible for the development of a program of research in community health nursing and

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. Her special interest is the development and use of standardized

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s to describe nursing practice, in particular in

. In 1990, she left the NHS and went into higher education as Professor of Nursing to start a new School of Nursing at

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. In 1997 she "went home to Wales" as the first professor of nursing at

. During the 1990s she was consultant to the

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' project to develop an International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP). She is deputy president of the Welsh Nursing Academy. Clark qualified as a nurse at

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, London, after obtaining an honours degree in Classics at the

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. She worked as a health visitor, and remained in community nursing as a manager, professor, and political advocate for nearly 40 years. She obtained her

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degree at the

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in 1972, and her PhD from

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in 1985. She has also been heavily involved in nursing at an international level. Following the break-up of the

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she worked to help develop nursing leadership in

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and

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. She is a visiting professor at the

University of Primorska University of Primorska (Slovenian ''Univerza na Primorskem'', Italian ''Università del Litorale'') is by age and size the third university in Slovenia. It is located in Koper, Izola, and Portorož and is named for the Slovenian Littoral region ...

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. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences, has participated in numerous international task groups and workshops, has acted as consultant to

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and ICN, and has represented the UK on ICN and

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committees. In 2001 she was the keynote speaker of the 'Anna Reynvaan Lecture' in

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). She is an active member of

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International, and was instrumental in establishing the Upsilon-Xi Chapter in Wales - the first in the UK and only the third in Europe and was STTI Board member from 2009 to 2011. She has been an RCN activist since her student days and has held many leadership roles in the RCN, including serving as president from 1990 to 1994.

Legacy

The June Clark Travel Scholarship Trust

Honours

In 1995 she was named

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(DBE) for her services to nursing.Profile
, swansea.ac.uk; accessed 7 April 2016. She was made a Fellow of the

Royal College of Nursing The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is a registered trade union in the United Kingdom for those in the profession of nursing. It was founded in 1916, receiving its royal charter in 1928. Queen Elizabeth II was the patron until her death in 2022. ...

in 1982. She was awarded the RCN Award of Merit in 1996.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, June 1941 births Living people Alumni of the University of London Alumni of the UCL Medical School Alumni of the University of Reading Alumni of London South Bank University Academics of Swansea University Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Nursing People from Sheffield Presidents of the Royal College of Nursing British nurses