title: Nursing leadership as a legacy of the Second World War.
abstract: In an overview of British nursing history from 1939 onwards, this paper challenes the view that professional stagnation in the post war period resulted from a lack of nurse leadership. Instead the paper argues that strong dynamic leaders did exist, but they failed to gain the support of rank and file nurses.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Starns
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom