Elizabeth Raybould

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Elizabeth Raybould, OBE, FRCN is British nurse and nursing educator responsible for helping to create a new organisational structure for nursing education in Northern Ireland.

Her main interests are nursing schools' libraries, the history of nursing, the development of nursing as a profession, and the preparation and training of safe practitioners. She helped to change the status of the learner from apprentice-based learning to student status[citation needed].

Elizabeth Raybould retired in 1983 from nursing and nurse education after some 25 years. She was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing for her services to the British healthcare system.

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She has stated that in the future "all involved in care are properly prepared for the job they are required to do, remembering that the patient is the important person".

[edit] Publications

  • Co-author of Basic Nursing (1963)
  • Co-author of A Guide to Medical and Surgical Nursing (1965)
  • Co-author of A History of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales (1969)
  • Editor: A Guide for Teachers of Nursing (1975)
  • Editor: A Guide for Nurse Managers (1977)

[edit] Legacy

  • Elizabeth Raybould Centre (Kent, England)

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