Barbara Fawkes

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Barbara Noel Fawkes

FRCN (25 December 1914 – 4 October 2002) was a British nurse and nursing educator. She served as Chief Education Officer, General Nursing Council
for England and Wales from 1959 to 1974.

Barbara Noel Fawkes
OBE FRCN
Born1914
Died2002
OccupationNurse leader
EmployerGeneral Nursing Council

Biography

Fawkes was born in

Tunbridge Wells High School when she was nine years old. She was unable to afford university, so instead turned to nursing.[1]

Beginning her nursing training, first as a pre-nursing student at Middlesex Convalescent Home in 1933, Fawkes went on to train as a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital, London, from 1934. She qualified as a nurse in June 1937, and in 1938, she won the Farndon Memorial Gold Medal, which allowed her to train as a midwife at the hospital without fee. She finished her training within six months, and the following year she moved towards becoming a tutor herself.[1]

She started in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, working in the air raid casualty ward, and was appointed the principal of the Macdonald Buchanan School of Nursing in 1946, even though she was the youngest member of staff. There she introduced changes in the education system of nurses, splitting students time between the classroom and on the ward, advocating similar changes elsewhere.[1][2]

In 1952 she received a

Red Cross scholarship to study education and administration at Columbia University, where she was graduated, earning her B.Sc. She went on to tour Commonwealth hospitals in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. She left the Middlesex Hospital in 1956 to begin her career in nursing education, which she began as chief education officer with the General Nursing Council, from which she retired in 1974.[1][3]

In 1964 Fawkes was a member of the influential Platt Committee on Nursing Education, led by Harry Platt which published in 1964.[4]

Fawkes was appointed an

Officer of the Order of the British Empire.[5] She died in Sussex on 4 October 2002,[1] and a memorial was subsequently held at Middlesex Hospital.[6]

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References

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    ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8
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  2. ISBN 9781351884754
    . Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Fawkes, Barbara (1914 - 2002)". Australian Women's Register. The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  4. ^ "A reform of nursing education first report of a special committee". RCN Digital Archive. 1964.
  5. ^ "Fawkes, Barbara Noel (1915 - 2002)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Memorial for barbara fawkes". Nursing Standard. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  7. ^ "RCN Fellows and Honorary Fellows". Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
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