Margaret Forbes Alexander is a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
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nurse, educator, researcher and writer. She is
emeritus professor at the School of Nursing and Community Health at
Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU).
She began her nursing career as a student
nurse at
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In 1980, she received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh for her thesis on “Nurse education". She went on to head GCU's Department of Nursing and Community Health until 1996. She was made a Fellow of the
Royal College of Nursing in 1992.
The University awarded her an honorary
Doctor of Science in 2000, the University of Dundee awarded her an honorary
LLD
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(Doctor of Laws) in 2001, she became an emeritus professor in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Community Health, Glasgow Caledonian University in 2003, received an honorary DSc Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh in 2005 and received an
honoris causa
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from The University of Edinburgh in 2016, the year they celebrated 60 years of Nursing as a graduating subject.
In 1999, she was named as chairman of National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland.
Nursing archives
/ref> She is most widely known for co-editing ''Nursing Practice: Hospital and Home,'' a textbook that became the 'bible' for many student nurses. Under new editors now this has been retitled ''Alexander's Nursing Practice''.
Bibliography (author or co-author)
* ''Nursing Practice: Hospital and Home - The Adult: Hospital and Home''
* ''Icn Framework of Competencies for the Generalist Nurse: Report of the Development Process and Consultation: Standards and competencies series''
* ''Nursing Partnership: A Model for Nursing Practice''
* ''Reflections and Thoughts from My Heart''
* ''Adult Branch Nurse for Life: Pack 1''
* ''Adult Nursing Value Pack''
* ''Nursing Practice: Hospital and Home - The Adult''
* ''Alexander's Nursing Practice''
References
Nurses of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Scottish women academics
Scottish women non-fiction writers
Scottish nurses
Nursing researchers
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Living people
Academics of Glasgow Caledonian University
Health professionals from Edinburgh
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Royal College of Nursing
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British nurses