title: A better scheme for nursing. The influence of the Dublin Hospital Sunday fund on nursing and nurse training in Ireland in the nineteenth century.
abstract: In the latter half of the nineteenth century nursing in Ireland was transformed. This paper focuses upon the role of one particular organisation, the Dublin Hospital Sunday Fund (DHSF), in the development of nursing and nurse training in Dublin during the 1870s and 1880s. In that period a framework for nursing and nurse training was introduced into the hospitals of Dublin that was to be the basis for all future developments and which shaped the transformation of nursing from a form of domestic service to a respected female occupation. The Dublin Hospital Sunday Fund can be seen to have played a major part in formulating and pursuing the policy changes and developments that enabled this transition to occur. This paper was first presented at the History of Nursing Millennium Conference in Edinburgh in July 2000.
authors.affiliation: National Distance Education Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wickham
mesh_terms: D002608:Charities / Q000266:history*; D004510:Education, Nursing, Diploma Programs / Q000266:history*; D005653:Fund Raising / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000266:history*; D007494:Ireland; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000266:history