My Lady has been a working Nurse all her life in the UK, for the last 32 years
working in "Care of The Elderly". Nurses in charge of the Nursing Service for
any Department/Ward were called "Sisters". And, yes, there was a "Theatre
Sister".
And the Boss Nurse of a UK Hospital was traditionally titled "Matron" who ran
her domain with an iron fist in a vlevet glove - that often even terrified
Senior Consultant Physicians and Surgeons
And the proudest qualification for a Nurse was to have the post-Nominal Letters
SRN after his'her name ["State Registered Nurse" - qualifying was the
"practical" equivalent of a "Batchelors' Degree" Course in Academe, since
study durations were the same length] And a Student Nurse's proudest day would
be when she got her Royal College of Nursing Badge and a silver belt Buckle at
her Graduation Ceremony.
And Hospital "Matrons" used to be superbly- qualified Nurses who earned
promotion the hard way, working up from "Staff Nurses" to "Charge Nurses", to
Ward Sisters, and on upwards.
And the people under care used to be known as "Patients".
Until the Politically Correct politicians and "civil servants* " [ - *they
are arrogant rather than civil, and they are NOT "your" servants, they only
serve themselves and their political superiors!] in the Labour Party
started messing with the National Nealth Service.
Someone with Political Power decided that the NHS was wasting too much money,
and that the Service needed professional "managers" - with qualifications in
Administration but not in Medicine or Nursing.
So now UK Hospitals have "clients" instead of "patients; - and "Ward Managers"
instead of "Sisters" - people without nursing qualifications who run their
departments with financial budgets and performance "targets" in mind, not with
"patient care" as their first priority.
Someone hidden behind the UK Civil Service veil of "Governmental
Confidentiality" decided that certain "titles" were "elitist", so SRN's were
required to re-Certify as "Registered General Nurses".And the post of the
Hospital Matron vanished - replaced by a senior Administrator who
is more liekly to have a Masters Degree in Administration than having been a
practical working urse with a thorough knowledge of caring but efficient care
of "patients" - sorry, "clients".
Julian Wilson,
proud to have been husband to a working Nurse for over 40 years.
--- On Mon, 2/6/08, Carol Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Carol Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [h-cost] Nurses and nuns
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, 2 June, 2008, 8:41 AM
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Don't nurses wear veils in the UK? I remember from several movies...
Monica
The nurse in overall charge of a ward was, and for all I know still is, called
Sister. I read some books by an author named Lucilla Andrew in which the nurse
of the operating room (called an operating theatre)was referred to as Sister
Theatre. Can someone tell me if that's been changed or not?
Thanks
Carol Mitchell
Chicagoland Costumer's Guild www.chicostume.org
Costume Midwest http://groups.yahoo.com/group/costumemidwest/
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