Betty Kershaw

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Betty Kershaw

Dame Janet Elizabeth Murray Kershaw

FRCN (née Gammie; born 11 December 1943) is an English nurse who served as professor of nursing and dean at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield
from 1999 to 2006.

She served as Head of the Manchester College of Midwifery and Nursing and the Director of Nursing Education at the Stockport, Tameside and Glossop College of Nursing.[1]

Kershaw received an honorary doctorate from Manchester University in 1995 in recognition of her contribution to nursing education.

Commonwealth Office on Managed Migration. Other commitments to the Department of Health included their Leadership Project advising on how the program developed ethnic minority nurses for leadership positions. [citation needed][3]

She was President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1994 to 1998,[4] was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2001[5] and was once employed as their education adviser. She was also St John Ambulance's chief nursing and social care officer.[6]

Personal life

Kershaw lives in Manchester and is married to historian Sir Ian Kershaw, with whom she has two sons.

References

  1. ^ "Professor Dame Betty Kershaw". Royal College of Nursing, Fellows. Retrieved 20 October 2006.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Kershaw, Betty (1984). Rcn Association of Nursing Education. Working Group on Education and Training.; Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain). RCN Archive: royal college of nursing. pp. Report.
  3. ^ "RCN Fellows and Honorary Fellows". Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  4. ^ "RCN Archive Catalogue". Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  5. ^ "RCN Fellows and Honorary Fellows". Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  6. ^ The Guardian report on Betty Kershaw