Sheila Cannon (Senior Nursing Officer)

Material comprises information and promotional leaflets and trial results for hospital equipment for the care of the elderly, associated copy correspondence, internal memoranda and circulars; information about counselling services including Macmillan Nurses and Cruse; articles on new types of treatment; lists of professionals sitting on advisory groups; a manuscript article, 'A Brief History of Mental Nursing' by Shelia Cannon; a template form, 'Care of the Elderly - Transfer Sheet'; and a copy of The Regional Review, the Journal of the Western Regional Hospital Board featuring an article about Sheila Cannon being awarded a scholarship.

1971-1979

1 folder

Sheila Cannon was a Senior Nursing Officer at Crichton Royal Hospital from 1965 and was still in post in 1979. Part of her career at Crichton Royal was also spent as Night Superintendent and in 1971 she was awarded a scholarship by the National Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee to fund a three month study tour of psychiatric hospitals in the United States of America. She also completed her nurse training at the hospital, gaining her Mental Nursing Certificate in 1960/61.

Photographic Material, DGH1/8

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