Queen's Nursing Institute
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The Queen's Nursing Institute was chartered in 1889 as Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses. From 1928 -1973 it was known as The Queen's Institute of District Nursing.
It is/was responsible for:
- a) The co-ordinating body for district nursing
- b) Undertook basic training until 1968, now organises research and post-basic training
- c) Maintains a large archive includes records of the establishment of the Institute including:
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- d) Florence Nightingale correspondence
- e) Rolls of affiliated branches, England and Wales, and of Queen's Nurses
- f) Inspectors' reports on branches including in Scotland and Ireland
- g) Correspondence re district nursing worldwide, especially Malta, Jamaica and Tanganyika.
- h) Records of the Protestant Sisters of Charity/Institution of Nursing Sisters (founded by Elizabeth Fry, 1840 - 1939)
- i) Personal papers including those of Dame Rosalind Paget (1855 - 1948)
- j) Reports/histories from the Royal College of Nursing, the Nightingale Fund, the Midwives' Institute and individual district nursing associations
