ABSTRACT
Early nursing leaders had a prodigious written output in letters, articles, curricular standards, books, alumnae newsletters, and more. The degree of interchange and exchange between and among nursing leaders internationally is astonishing, even by today’s standards. They shared freely across national journals in ways that display shared concerns, values and sentiments. While the UK journals devote a considerable amount of attention to concerns for registration, title protection, educational standardization, and so forth, the content of concern in this chapter is that which is specifically ethical in nature. The paged journal review and content analysis of the early nursing journals (The Nursing Record, British Journal of Nursing, The Nursing Times) from their inception, and the UK ethics textbooks, indicate several persisting, large domains of ethical concern and themes in UK nursing that are explored in this chapter.
