Florence Udell
{{Short description|British nurse}}
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Florence Nellie Udell, CBE, RGN, SRN, FRSH, FSCM{{cite journal| pmid=5178049 | volume=2 | title=Miss Florence N. Udell C.B.E., S.R.N., President of the Rcn | year=1966 | journal=Midwife Health Visit | page=281}} was a British nurse, nursing administrator and government official. She was President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1964-1966.
Career
Florence Udell served as Secretary to the RCN's organisation in Scotland in 1931. In 1944 Udell was appointed Chief Nurse in the Health Division of the European Regional Officer of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). She would later go on to serve as Colonial Office Chief Nursing Officer (COCNO) and as Nursing Adviser at the Ministry of Overseas Development.
The World Health Organization received advice on nursing from a number of bodies, particularly its Expert Nursing Committees. The first, in 1950, had both Udell, and another nurse, Olive Baggallay, as members, and made a series of statements, which were to be echoed, in one form or another, over several decades.
:Nurses are needed in greater numbers than other categories of health workers because they have direct, individualized, and lasting contact with people, sick and well. In this sense, nurses are the final agents of health services ... the stage of development of nursing varies greatly from culture to culture...Armstrong-Reid, Susan & Murray, David Armies of Peace: Canada and the UNRRA Years (Buffalo, New York: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
Awards
Udell was awarded an MBE (1941), OBE (1958) and a CBE (1968).{{cite web|url=https://www.rcn.org.uk/centenary/projects/presidents-exhibition|title=Presidents exhibition RCN|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}
RCN Presidency
Udell served as President of the RCN from 1964 to 1966 as principal nurse in charge of the British section of the United Nations Rehabilitation and Relief Administration (UNRRA).[https://web.archive.org/web/20090410224612/http://www.northwest.nhs.uk/document_uploads/Equality%20and%20Diversity%20Documents/Ultimate_Role_Model.pdf Northwest NHF website (PDF document)]
References
External links
- Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, [https://archive.today/20130201181214/http://rsh.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/74/9/914 Vol. 74, No. 9, pp. 914-915 (1954) excerpt]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090430230359/http://www.northwest.nhs.uk/document_uploads/Equality%20and%20Diversity%20Documents/Ultimate_Role_Model.pdf Northwest NHF website (PDF document)]
- [http://www.blackhistorymonthuk.co.uk/health_uk/many_rivers_to_cross.html Reference to Udell's work in the Colonial Office]
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