Nurse Education. Helen Gribble, who qualified in 1953, remembers:
I became an Assistant Director of Nurse Education. This affected me as I became
involved in the start of establishing the degree course for nurses at Bart’s. This was, in
fact, a very new aspect of nurse training that was introduced by the General Nursing
Council. At that stage only a few training schools throughout the country were starting
degree courses and the training school chose the type of degree that the nurse would gain
as well as her State Registered Nursing Certificate, depending on the local facilities and
their nearest university link. Also at that time, of course, was the City University and so
we started a degree course, which gave nurses a degree in Social Sciences, as well as an
SRN, at the completion of their training.