When Matron Ruled - Hardcover

Ardern, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709068581 ISBN 13: 9780709068587

Publisher: Robert Hale, 2002

Synopsis

When Matron Ruled explores the qualities and values that set the matron apart as a leader of nurses, and looks at individual personalities, from the time of Nightingale's matrons to their demise three decades ago. In her commanding role within the hospital, the matron was both feared and revered, and her main abilities were her organizational skills, maintenance of nursing standards within the hospital, and resolution of the problems of her staff and patients. With many direct accounts from matrons and their nurses, this book dispels the myths about these remarkable leaders of nurses.

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About the Author

Peter Ardern was born and educated in Sheffield. He began his career in psychiatric nursing at Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield before completing his general nurse training at Barnsley. He moved to Portsmouth in 1969 and was promoted to charge nurse in 1971. Working as a counsellor for the elderly, he co-presented a bereavement video package. In 1994 he gained an MSc in social studies and won the Nursing Times's 'Nurse of the Year' award. Retiring in 1994 as a senior nurse after thirty years in the National Health Service, he studied for a PhD in health studies. Peter Ardern lives in Portsmouth with his wife, June, where they are involved in charity work for deaf children, and are researching a further book on nursing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Robert Hale
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0709068581
• ISBN 13: 9780709068587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240