Dame Sarah Ann Swift, GBE, RRC (22 November 1854, Kirton Skeldyke, Lincolnshire – 27 June 1937, Marylebone) was an English nurse and founder in 1916 of the College of Nursing Ltd. which became the Royal College of Nursing.[1] The College of Nursing created the first registers of nurses , a blueprint for the introduction of Nurse registration in the United Kingdom.[2]
- ^ McGann, Susan. "Swift, Dame Sarah Ann". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/49194. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Bendall, Eve R D; Raybould, Elizabeth (1969). A History of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales 1919-1969. H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. pp. 21–24.