Minutes of the Royal College of Nursing Council meetings

• Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/1944
• Dates of Creation:1944
• Name of Creator:
  Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (1916-2018) Nursing organisation
• Physical Description:
  0.01m

• Scope and Content

  Meetings were held roughly every month, and the minutes of each meeting start with noting date, time and place. Items standard at each meeting: Present, letters and messages of regret, minutes of previous meeting, matters arising, correspondence, reports of standing committees (Finance Committee, Professional Association Committee, Establishment and General Purposes Committee, Education Committee, Public Health Section, Branches Standing Committee, Sister Tutor Section, Scottish Board, Committee for Northern Ireland, Private Nurses Section, Student Nurses Central Representative Council) and date of next meeting.

  In 1944, Council members discussed:

  Syllabus of the State Examinations and a comprehensive scheme of training

  War emergency committee

  Use of the term 'nurse-teacher'

  Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth to be President of the Student Nurses' Association

  National Advisory Committee for the Recruitment and Distribution of Nurses and MIdwives - essential work order

  Government white paper on a national health service

  Wedding dresses from the USA for British serving women

  Coat of Arms

  Visit from the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Frank Newsom Smith

  Civilian nurse air raid victims fund

  Home nursing arrangements in the National Health Service

  Emergency measures: dispersal of RCN work and staff due to the risk of the enemy using V2 weapons on London

  Death of Rachael Cox-Davies, founder and three-time President of the RCN

  Seaside Cottage, Bonchurch, re-opening after military occupation had ended

  Indexed.

  This record relates to two separate sets of minutes: the original set is signed. This volume is kept in Store B.

  The other set is a copy of the original. This volume is kept in Store A.

• Access Information

  This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact the RCN Archives in advance of their first visit.

• Other Finding Aids

  Most recent online Royal College of Nursing Archives Catalogue is available at http://www.rcn.org.uk/development/library_and_heritage_services.

• Conditions Governing Use

  Royal College of Nursing

• Custodial History

  The main bulk of volumes came from London library historical collection to Edinburgh with the Archives' collections in 1992. Library maintained a copy set. From 1992 up until 2009 the papers were transferred directly by Council and Committee Admin (previously 'General Secretariat', or 'General Secretary's Office') One copy went to RCN Library for binding and the original to Archives, unbound. In January 2017 the two sets were brought together to create one full run of papers and an additional run, with copies of most years. The more complete set is held in Store A and the less complete set in Store B.