Description
This presentation will review the relationship between the medical and nursing professions in the British Army as sentinel indicator of the deepening mutual respect and cross-professional leadership in the Army Medical Services over the last 150 years. It will argue that the separate identity of each profession was critical to enable nursing to establish an identity based on competence rather than gender. This can be illustrated by the evolution of the nursing profession in the British Army with female nurses being employed in a separate corps from male nurses. The merging of Army nursing by profession into a single corps and the amalgamation of training for nurses and medics into single training centre in the 1990s unified the nursing profession and broke the gender discrimination. Since then, military nurses have had an increasingly prominent role in the leadership and management of the Army Medical Services with selection for these generic roles being gender and profession agnostic. The presentation will close with a discussion on the clinical, managerial, and leadership experiences that are essential for healthcare teams in war and disasters and how this might shape global nursing.| Period | 27 Jun 2024 |
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| Event title | 7th European Region Sigma Conference |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Bournemouth, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |