ABSTRACT
Miss Nightingale had accepted with reluctance two methods of entry for nurse training, one for special probationers and one for pupils, and, as she forecast, the former were invaluable in pioneering positions of nursing superintendents in other hospitals where they started similar training schemes. In 1858 the Medical Act had provided for the statutory registration of medical practitioners, and by the 1880s the new nurse leaders were beginning to ask whether nursing should not also be tested by public examination and the title ‘nurse’ restricted to duly registered candidates.
