Stuart Wildman

• BA, SRN DipN, Cert Ed, MEd, PhD
• Honorary Research Fellow at University of Birmingham

This article is published in The UKAHN Bulletin (UK Association for the History of Nursing), December 2023. A full text version can be downloaded at https://bulletin.ukahn.org/whats-on-a-badge-using-material-culture-to-illustrate-the-professionalization-of-nursing/

During his career, Thomas Millerchip served four prison sentences, two for attempting to procure abortion, and was removed from the register by the General Medical Council in 1885. Yet, he experienced considerable support in his hometown of Coventry and subsequently practised, intermittently, outside of the law until his death in 1912. This article...

Nineteenth-century interest in reforming nursing took on a greater sense of urgency following the Crimean War. The initiative of the Nightingale Fund to establish a school of nursing at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London in 1860 spurred on many provincial hospitals and associations to consider reforming nursing through better recruitment and training...

Biography of nursing pioneer

Biography of nursing pioneer

First male entrants on the General Nursing Council Register 1922

First head of army nursing in the UK.

Social reformer and nurse leader

Biography of a controversial nurse and author

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If Charles Darwin has a Rottweiler in the well-known evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, then Florence Nightingale has her equivalent in Lynn McDonald, the Canadian social scientist, politician, and editor of The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (2001–12), a collection of sixteen weighty volumes. McDonald has almost single-handedly count...

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study undertaken with 46 African and African Caribbean men exploring their experiences of fatherhood. Data analysis was informed by Connell’s theoretical work on changing gender relations. Findings indicate that fathers’ lives were mediated by masculinities, racism, gender, migration and generational...

Recent policy pronouncements emphasise the importance of engaging fathers with preventive primary care services. However, in England, there is a paucity of literature which examines African and African-Caribbean fathers' experiences of service provision. This paper reports a study that investigated African and African-Caribbean fathers' beliefs abo...

This paper presents an examination of distinct periods in the development of nursing in order to rediscover a history of nursing management in England. The overall purpose is to demonstrate that uncritical accounts written in the past have not adequately explained the complex factors that have shaped nursing management in England. It is also sugges...

The existence of a theory-practice gap in physiotherapy has not attracted wide attention or been the focus of sustained analysis within the profession. This is in stark contrast to nursing, where consideration of the relationship between theory and practice has received extensive coverage. The argument presented here suggests that it is an appropri...

In recent years, there has been increased interest in the role of religion in the reform of nursing during the mid-nineteenth century. However, less is known about how 'party' disputes between evangelicals and followers of the 'Oxford Movement' may have affected nursing. This study examines a proposal to create a nursing association for the Diocese...

This paper is based upon research undertaken in the Birmingham City Archives in which the development of nurse training and education is traced from its beginnings in 1869 to the creation of a central school for the Teaching Hospitals in 1957. The results from this research are discussed in the context of national developments in training and as su...

In 1996 the archives of many of the Birmingham hospitals were deposited in the Birmingham Reference Library. This has afforded nurse historians the opportunity to conduct research into the development of nursing in the city. This is to be welcomed as there is little published work regarding nursing in Birmingham. This paper examines the development...

In recent years there has been a large increase in the number of qualified nurses in the United Kingdom, who have raised the academic level of their nursing qualification to diploma level or above. Correspondingly, there has been little research that assesses the value of post-registration education offered by universities. In particular, there is...

The impact of higher education for post-registration nurses on their subsequent clinical practice: an exploration of students’ views¶ In recent years there has been a large increase in the number of qualified nurses in the United Kingdom, who have raised the academic level of their nursing qualification to diploma level or above. Correspondingly, t...

Nurses must share their research and experiences with colleagues in order that areas of practice are debated and improved. Assessing the suitability of a piece of work for a journal and following simple ground rules will increase the likelihood of publication.

This paper examines the use of simulations in the education of student nurses as part of their preparation for management responsibility. A review of the literature indicates that there is little published work on this topic and that those evaluations that have been reported invariably occur at the end of the exercise, thus giving an incomplete pic...

The employment of simulations and games has been widely recommended for use in nurse education but there are few reports of their introduction or evaluation. This paper describes the use and evaluation of a simulation game which prepares students for a management module in an English National Board pilot scheme course. Evaluation took place by usin...

The existence of a theory-practice gap in nursing in the United Kingdom has been an issue of concern for many years. However recent events have resulted in a new dimension of the theory-practice gap emerging. This paper explores the origins of the contrasting values attributed to nurses and health care managers and identifies areas of conflict. It...