World War I remembered with reference to district nurses.
World War I is remembered for the appalling loss of life, but it also heralded major social and political change which included wider opportunities for women and, later, universal suffrage. World War I also formed the context for the emergence of the 1919 Nurses' Registration Act. District nurses (Queen's Nurses) undertook a range of roles during the war, including roles overseas as members of the military nursing services. Like nurses, they had their work supplemented by Voluntary Aid Detachments. This article discusses the war from the perspective of the district nursing profession.
Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, Kings College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery and Fellow of the QNI.
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