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Australasian Trained Nurses' Association
The Australasian Trained Nurses' Association was an association formed in 1899 to register nurses who had been trained in Australia. History Susan McGahey was a co-founder of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association (ATNA) in December 1899 which was briefly named the Australian Trained Nurses' Association. She had posted a newspaper advert asking for people interested in forming an association to register trained nurses to meet with her. Frederick Norton Manning was one of several doctors involved with the early organisation and he became the association's first President According to Russell the original idea for the ATNA began with a proposal from two matrons, Matron Susan McGahey of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and Matron Martha Farquharson who was from 1890 to 1895 Matron at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital, and from 1895 to 1900 Matron at the Melbourne Hospital. At the meeting on 26 May 1899 to form the ATNA a provisional committee comprising seven matrons Matron S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan McGahey
Susan Bell McGahey (1862 - November 16, 1919) was the matron of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital from 1891 to 1904. McGahey was also co-founder of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association in 1899 and president of the International Council of Nurses from 1904 to 1909. Early life and education Susan Bell McGahey was born in 1862 in Stewartstown, Ireland. She was partially homeschooled before attending a college in Belfast where she received multiple awards and scholarships. After moving to England in the 1870s, McGahey completed her nursing training at The London Hospital in 1887. with an additional certificate at the Obstetrical Society of London. Career After receiving additional nursing training, McGahey began her nursing career at The London Hospital in 1884. She worked at the hospital as a student nurse for five years before moving to Australia. Upon arriving in Australia in 1890, McGahey became a matron at Carrington Convalescent Hospital in Camden, New South Wales. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Bell (nurse)
Jane Bell (1873–1959) was an Scotland-born Australian nurse and midwife. She is best known for her work with List of Australian Army medical units in World War I#Australian General Hospital, Australian Imperial Force (AIF) field hospitals in Egypt in World War I, and for her advocacy for the nursing profession. Career Bell was born on 16 March 1873 in Middlebie, a farm in Scotland. After the death of both her parents and four of her siblings from tuberculosis Bell migrated to Sydney with her remaining siblings (two sisters and a brother) and was assisted in doing so by her family's Church of Scotland, Presbyterian parish. The children arrived in Sydney in 1886 where she trained as a nurse at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. In 1899 she was a founding member of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association. Following the completion of her training Bell was appointed Matron of the Bundaberg Hospital in 1903. Bell moved to London in 1906, where she trained in midwifery at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nursing Organizations
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice. Nurses practice in many specialties with differing levels of prescription authority. Nurses comprise the largest component of most healthcare environments; but there is evidence of international shortages of qualified nurses. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope of physicians, and this traditional role has shaped the public image of nurses as care providers. Nurse practitioners are nurses with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing. They are however permitted by most jurisdictions to practice independently in a variety of settings. Since the postwar period, nurse education has undergone a process of diversification towards advanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrude Mead
Gertrude Ella Mead (1867–1919) was an Australian medical doctor and advocate for women and children. Mead was the third woman doctor registered in Western Australia. She was a founder of the Child protection society of Western Australia as well as an early advocate for homes for the aged and daycare centres. Early life and education Gertrude Ella Mead was born on 31 December 1867 in Adelaide, the third child of Baptist minister Silas Mead and Ann Mead (née Staples). She attended the Advanced School for Girls alongside her sister Lilian, the first public secondary school in South Australia and the first school to allow girls to matriculate and qualify for university. She matriculated in 1884 with second class honours. Mead initially trained in nursing at the Adelaide Children's Hospital from 1890 to 1891, and then began a MBBS at Adelaide University, graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1897. She spent two years in the United Kingdom working as a resident physician an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norah Martin
Norah Margaret Martin (1888–1977), later known by her religious name Mother Mary Bernard, was an Australian religious sister and the superior general of the Little Company of Mary, an order of religious who care for the ill. She served as superior general for 12 years, from 1947 to 1959. She also served as provincial superior for the New Zealand and the Australian provinces. She was a skilled nurse and served as superior for several of the order's hospitals. She initiated the effort that eventually led to the beatification of Mary Potter (nun), Mary Potter, the founder of her order. Early life Norah Margaret Martin was born on 18 June 1888 in the rural community of Box Creek near Booligal in New South Wales, Australia. Her parents, Patrick and Mary Martin, had immigrated to Australia from Ireland. Her father worked as a Pastoral farming, grazier, responsible for the care of livestock. The couple had six children, of whom Norah was the youngest. She was educated by the Sisters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Lyons
Betty or Bettie is a name, a common diminutive for the name, names Bethany (given name), Bethany and Elizabeth (given name), Elizabeth. In Latin America, it is also a common diminutive for the given name Beatriz, the Spanish and Portuguese form of the Latin name Beatrix and the English name Beatrice (given name), Beatrice. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was more often a diminutive of Bethia. Notable people Athletes * Betty Cuthbert (1938–2017), Australian sprinter and Olympic champion * Betty Jameson (1919–2009), American Hall-of-Fame golfer and one of the founders of the LPGA * Betty McKilligan (born 1949), Canadian pairs figure skater * Betty Nuthall (1911–1983), English tennis player * Betty Pariso, American bodybuilder * Betty Stöve (born 1945), Dutch tennis player * Betty Ann Grubb Stuart (born 1950), American tennis player * Betty Uber (1906–1983), English badminton and tennis player Journalists and media personalities * Betty Elizalde (1940–2018), Argentine jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Winifred Howie
Clara Winifred Howie MBE (27 June 1881 – 13 August 1960) was an Australian nurse and administrator. Also known as Winifred Howie, in 1937 she was the acting President of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association before leading the South Australian branch until 1941. Life Howie was born in 1881 in Adelaide's seaside suburb of Glenelg. Her eldest brother was the artist L. H. Howie. Her parents were Clara Jane (born Hotham) and her husband George Cullen Howie who had emigrated from Scotland. Her father died in 1883 and his mother took the children to stay with her father, the Rev. John Hotham, in Port Elliot, where she ran a small private schoolDavid Dolan'Howie, Laurence Hotham (1876–1963)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 7 February 2015 in the winter and in the summer they took in boarders. After training she began working for the District Trained Nursing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Hill (1859-1933)
Kate Hill (7 May 1859 – 2 February 1933) was an English-born orphan who became a leading Australian nurse. She owned the first private hospital in Adelaide to train nurses (later known as Calvary Wakefield Hospital). Life Hill was born in 1859 in Walsall in the English midlands. Her parents were Mary (born Evans) and her journeyman husband Joseph Hill. She lived with her married sister after her parents died. Kate and her friend Alice Tibbits were influenced by Anglican community nurse Sister Dora (Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison) who cared for injured miners. Kate, her sister, and her husband and Alice Tibbits emigrated to South Australia in 1879. Alice and Kate began nursing and training at the newly opened Adelaide Children's Hospital. Alice was the first ever to complete the one year of training, although the training was not well regarded by the trainees. By 1887, Hill was the hospital's head nurse. She left to rejoin Tibbits who was the owner of a hospital in Wakefield Street. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Stuart Blomfield
Isla Stuart Blomfield (9 July 1865 – 16 August 1959) was an Australian nurse, sanitary inspector, and health visitor. She spent her career helping to reduce the high infant mortality in New South Wales, advising mothers about breastfeeding. She was the only woman health inspector in Sydney's health department, and she was an executive member of the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies. Life Blomfield was born near Mudgee in New South Wales. She was the first of eight children of Margaret (born Cox) and Henry Wilson Blomfield, who was a grazier. Her parents were both born in Australia, and it is presumed that they employed a governess for her. In January 1896, she started training as a nurse at the (later Royal) Prince Alfred Hospital. Susan McGahey was the matron. McGahey would co-found the Australasian Trained Nurses Association (ATNA). Blomfield left for a holiday after qualifying, and she was at London's Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital in 1901 learning ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Barron
Ellen Barron (1875 — 8 July 1951) was a nurse in Queensland, Australia. She was a matron and leader in the Queensland nursing profession. Life Barron was born in Berkshire, England, was educated at Oxford and Queensland, and trained at the Brisbane General Hospital from 1896 to 1899 and worked as staff nurse there from 1899 to 1901. She was head nurse at the Maryborough General Hospital from 1902 to 1904. Barron enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I. She was stationed at Lemnos during the landing at Gallipoli, and she also served in Egypt and France. She returned to Australia in early 1917, suffering from pulmonary fibrosis. On her return from active service, she was appointed to the Valley Centre of the Maternal and Child Welfare Services, and in 1922 she was sent to New Zealand for six months to study child welfare under Sir Truby King. In 1923 Barron opened the first training school in child welfare nursing in Brisbane. Doris Bardsley who was to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Norton Manning
Frederick Norton Manning (25 February 1839 – 18 June 1903), was a medical practitioner, military surgeon, Inspector General of the Insane for the Colony of New South Wales, and was an Australian Lunatic Asylum Superintendent. He was a leading figure in the establishment of a number of lunatic asylums in the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria, and participated in inquests and reviews of asylums throughout the colonies. Early career Manning studied at St George's Hospital, London (M.R.C.S., L.S.A., 1860) and the University of St Andrews (M.D., 1862). After joining the navy as a surgeon he saw active service in New Zealand on board . The ship took part in the New Zealand Wars in New Zealand and Manning was present at the savage fighting at Gate Pa, where most of the officers in the naval brigade were either killed or wounded. Tarban Creek On a visit to Sydney in 1867 Manning was invited by Henry Parkes to become medical superintendent of the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Stevenson Abbott
Joan Stevenson (Judy) Abbott, (11 December 1899 – 27 November 1975) was an Australian army hospital matron during the Second World War. Early life and education Abbott was born on 11 December 1899 in Brisbane, Queensland. She undertook her basic nursing training at Brisbane General Hospital from 1920 to 1923, and later passed her midwifery certificate at Lady Bowen Hospital in April 1926. She was appointed a baby clinic nurse, on probation, the following month, and completed her child welfare certificate in June 1926. Career On 8 August 1940 Abbott was appointed for service with the Second Australian Imperial Force as a matron of a unit of Queensland nurses. Posted to the Middle East, Abbott was in charge of a 1200-bed Australian Base Hospital. She returned to Australia in 1943 and in April was appointed principal matron of the Queensland Lines of Communication Area. In June 1946 Abbott was awarded a Florence Nightingale Foundation scholarship and undertook two years' pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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