Margaret F. Alexander

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Margaret Forbes Alexander CBE FRCN is a Scottish nurse, educator, researcher and writer. She is emeritus professor at the School of Nursing and Community Health at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU).

She began her nursing career as a student nurse at The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In 1980, she received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh for her thesis on “Nurse education". [1] She went on to head GCU's Department of Nursing and Community Health until 1996. She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 1992. [2]

The University awarded her an honorary Doctor of Science in 2000, the University of Dundee awarded her an honorary LLD (Doctor of Laws) in 2001, she became an emeritus professor in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Community Health, Glasgow Caledonian University in 2003, received an honorary DSc Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh in 2005 and received an honoris causa from The University of Edinburgh in 2016, the year they celebrated 60 years of Nursing as a graduating subject.

In 1999, she was named as chairman of National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland. [3] She is most widely known for co-editing Nursing Practice: Hospital and Home, a textbook that became the 'bible' for many student nurses. Under new editors now this has been retitled Alexander's Nursing Practice. [4]

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References

  1. Alexander, Margaret F. (1980). "Nurse education: an experiment in integration of theory and practice in nursing".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "RCN Fellows and Honorary Fellows". Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  3. Nursing archives
  4. 1 2 RNT, Chris Brooker BSc MSc RGN SCM; RGN, Maggie Nicol BSc MSc PGDipEd; FRCN, Margaret F. Alexander CBE BSc PhD RN RM RNT (10 May 2011). Alexander's Nursing Practice, 4e (4 ed.). Churchill Livingstone. ISBN   9780702054655.