6-433: Royal District Nursing Service may refer to: Royal District Nursing Service (South Australia) , Australia Royal District Nursing Service (Victoria) , Australia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Royal District Nursing Service . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-543: Is a not-for-profit community health and care provider with headquarters in Keswick , a suburb of Adelaide , South Australia . It has progressed through a series of iterations: The Royal District Nursing Society of South Australia was founded by Bishop Kennion on 12 July 1894 as the District Trained Nursing Society (D.T.N.S.), following 12 months work by a trained nurse, named McLellan, in
18-520: The Adelaide suburb of Bowden . This experiment, which was supported by the Anglican Church and financed by the philanthropic Barr Smith and Elder families, convinced founders, Dr Allan Campbell , Rev. B. C. Stephenson and Nightingale nurse Matron Edith Noble , of the local demand for a district nursing service. Meanwhile, the financial viability of such a venture was being demonstrated by
24-484: The Pirie Street Nursing Sisters' Association, which was organised by the inner-city Pirie Street Wesleyan Methodist Church but supported by public donations. Founder Rev. Joseph Berry was on the inaugural committee of the D.T.N.S., although his Pirie Street Nursing Sisters' Association remained independent until 1898. The second nurse appointed was Dora Sweetapple . In her first full year she
30-465: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_District_Nursing_Service&oldid=933097818 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Royal District Nursing Service (South Australia) The Royal District Nursing Service ( RDNS )
36-480: Was paid £30 with £55 for expenses. She took care of over 150 patients making 1612 visits to see them, taking advantage of free bus rides, a bicycle and a ferry crossing. In 1912 Boer War hero Martha Sarah Bidmead RRC became the service's superintendent. Subsequently, in 1937, the D.T.N.S. was renamed the District and Bush Nursing Society of S.A. Inc.; in 1965 the 'Royal' prefix was granted and in 1973 'Bush'
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