Charlotte Eliza Bentley MBE was a British nurse and nursing activist.
12 Facts About Charlotte Bentley
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Charlotte Bentley raised the status of nurses as part of the British nursing history.
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Charlotte Bentley had them established as students during training and established State Enrolled Nurses as not just "assistant nurses".
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Charlotte Bentley's parents were John and Charlotte and her father worked as a hosier.
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Charlotte Bentley began to work at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
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Charlotte Bentley was training to be a nurse, but the training was frequently work.
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Charlotte Bentley rose to lead the British Student Nurses' Association and she successfully campaigned to have trainee nurses to be called students until they passed their state registration exams and became SRNs State Registered Nurses.
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Charlotte Bentley moved from the teaching hospital to join Lambeth General Hospital as a sister in charge in 1948.
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Charlotte Bentley was elected to lead the "National Association of State Enrolled Assistant Nurses" as General Secretary despite being a SRN rather than a SEN nurse.
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Charlotte Bentley's organisation organised holidays for nurses irrespective of their qualification.
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Charlotte Bentley worked with Irene Ward who was a member of parliament for Tynemouth and a private member's bill, the "Nurses Act, 1961", passed through parliament to remove the demeaning "assistant" from the SEN's job title.
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Charlotte Bentley died in 1996 after suffering with Parkinson's in the London Borough of Camden.