Nancy Roper was born on 29 September 1918, at Wetheral, near Carlisle, England, her mother was a nanny.
14 Facts About Nancy Roper
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Nancy Roper was invited to join the Royal College of Nursing study tour in Belgium in 1954.
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Nancy Roper became an Examiner for the General Nursing Council.
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Nancy Roper worked on updating the Oakes Dictionary for Nurses, which was published in 1961.
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Nancy Roper won a British Commonwealth Nurses War Memorial Fellowship to study for MPhil at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1970.
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Nancy Roper proposed the first organised approach to nurse care planning, which was researched and refined to become a model of Activities of Living.
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Nancy Roper was the first nursing research officer for the Scottish Home and Health Department, working with the Chief Scientist, and carried out assignments for the World Health Organisation European Office.
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Nancy Roper wrote in the British Journal of Nursing in 2002, that as early as when a student nurse she was not happy that rotating wards for different experiences was useful, as there were 'more similarities than differences in nursing patients with different conditions'.
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Nancy Roper's approach was more holistic as well as practical and reminded the nurse to look at the whole patient's needs, their capabilities and their past, present and future experiences.
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Nancy Roper died in Edinburgh 5 October 2004, and tributes were paid in nursing and general publications.
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However both the Nursing Times said she had 'influenced generations of nurses' and the British Journal of Nursing noted that Nancy Roper received neither a state honour nor a Royal College of Nursing fellowship.
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Nancy Roper had shown no inclination to retire and recently made a powerful intervention at a conference in Edinburgh.
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The Royal College of Nursing executive director, Alison Kitson said: 'Nancy Roper was an inspiration to her profession.
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Nancy Roper combined clear thinking with compassion and has left a treasured legacy through her work around activities of daily living in nursing.