Person
Bell, Jane (1873 - 1959)
OBE
- Born
- 16 March 1873
Dumfriesshire, Scotland - Died
- 6 August 1959
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Nurse
Summary
Jane Bell was lady superintendent of Melbourne Hospital 1910-1934. She made many innovations, including replacement of male orderlies by sisters in the operating theatres; the appointment of tutor-sisters to instruct trainees and of a house-sister to supervise the nurses' quarters; the introduction of a six-week preliminary course; and pay for trainee-nurses.
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Chronology
- 1898
- Career position - Nursing Certificate, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1898 - 1903
- Career position - Various staff appointments
- 1903 - 1904
- Career position - Matron at Bundaberg Hospital, Queensland
- 1904 - 1906
- Career position - Matron at Brisbane General Hospital
- 1906 - 1907
- Career position - Midwifery training at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London
- 1907 - 1910
- Career position - Senior Assistant Superintendent of Nurses at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
- 1910 - 1934
- Career position - Lady Superintendent of Melbourne Hospital
- 1913 - 1915
- Career position - Australian Army Nursing Service
- 1924 - 1950
- Career position - Member of the Nurses' Board
- 1931 - 1934
- Career position - President, Royal Victorian College of Nursing
- 1938 - 1946
- Career position - President, Royal Victorian College of Nursing
- 1944
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Goodman, Rupert and Williams, Jennifer A., Jane Bell, OBE, Lady Superintendent: the Royal Melbourne Hospital, 1910-1934 (Melbourne: Spectrum Publications, 1988), 281 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Gardiner, Lyndsay, 'Bell, Jane (1873-1959), hospital matron' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), p. 257. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bell-jane-5195. Details
- Williams, Jennifer, 'Jane Bell (1873-1959) hospital matron' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
Edited Books
- Radi, H. ed., 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988), 268 pp. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539704. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/50761383. Details
- 'Bell, Jane (1873-1959)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-763085. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Bell, Jane (1873-1959), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0098b.htm. Details
See also
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 21 August 2019
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