"The World Health Organisation declared 2020 the year of the Nurse and Midwife and in December 2019 the Nursing and Midwifery Council acknowledged 100 years of nursing registration in the United Kingdom. The model of hospital based 'training' of nursing and the instigation of a register for qualified nurses in the 1919 Nurses Act, may have been the beginning of the professionalisation of nurses but according to Davies (1977) was also responsible for nursing shortages by restricting training places. In the century that ...
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"The World Health Organisation declared 2020 the year of the Nurse and Midwife and in December 2019 the Nursing and Midwifery Council acknowledged 100 years of nursing registration in the United Kingdom. The model of hospital based 'training' of nursing and the instigation of a register for qualified nurses in the 1919 Nurses Act, may have been the beginning of the professionalisation of nurses but according to Davies (1977) was also responsible for nursing shortages by restricting training places. In the century that followed we have seen changes to the nurses and midwives act, the 'training' evolving from hospital control into higher education and the registration of nurses moving from the responsibility of the General Nursing Council to the United Kingdom Central Council (with four country boards) to the current Nursing and Midwifery Council. The 1902 Midwives Act (England and Wales) established the Central Midwives Board to oversee the education and practice of midwives, thus beginning the route to professionalisation of midwifery. Today nurses and midwives in UK practice under rules laid down in government legislation in The Health Act 1999 (UK) and Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 (UK) and subsequent amendments as statutory instruments. The need to educate more nurses to replace an ageing workforce and the requirement for clinical practice experience to support this poses a difficult problem for educators to reconcile"--
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