Isla Stewart brushed metal plaque

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# St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Isla Stewart Standing before this weathered brushed metal plaque on the ancient stones of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, you're at the very epicenter where Isla Stewart transformed nursing from a vocation into a profession. From 1887 to 1910, she served as Matron of th...

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Isla Stewart 1856-1910 Pioneer of State Registration of Nurses Campaigner of formal training and education Superintendent of St. Bartholomew's Training School Founder of the League of St. Bartholomew's Nurses www.bartsleagueofnurses.org "There is something about St. Bartholomew's Hospital - it maybe in it's age, it's history or it's associations - which creates towards it a unique feeling among its members" Isla Stewart, Matron1887-1910