Margaret Dorothy Green

Margaret Dorothy Green OBE FRCN (1929–2017) was a senior Royal College of Nursing employee from 1966 to 1990 and was instrumental in setting up the UKCC, the forerunner of the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Through UKCC, Green introduced major changes to nurse education such as Project 2000 and PREP.

Not to be confused with Margaret Green, British artist.
Margaret Dorothy Green

OBE FRCN
Born1929
Died2017
OccupationNurse
Employer(s)Royal College of Nursing and United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
Known forProject 2000

Early life

Green was born on 22 August 1929

Education and Career

Green qualified as a nurse in 1955 at the Kent County Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital Maidstone, the London Hospital and the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, registering in July 1955.[1] She first joined the Royal College of Nursing in December 1965 as a Tutor in the then Education Division where she first helped to organize ward sisters' courses for UK and overseas nurses. In 1966, when the Salmon Report was published, she planned two of the first experimental first-line management courses for staff nurses and ward sisters. In June 1973 Green become Head of the Professional Nursing Department.[2]

In 1976, she took up the post of RCN Director of Education and Principal of the Institute of Advanced Nursing Education,[3] a post she held until her retirement in 1990.[4]

Green was instrumental in setting up the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC)[1] and was Chair of the English National Board.

In 1986, Green chaired the committee[5] which initiated a major UKCC plan to modernise nursing education by the end of the millennium, called Project 2000. This major scheme sought to expand the provision of nursing degrees in the United Kingdom to ensure that entry level nursing qualifications for registered nurses were at degree level.[6]

Green was involved in UKCC's Post-registration Education and Practice (PREP). PREP took several years to introduce, with the final framework being agreed in 1994, and the scheme itself being introduced in 1995.[7] PREP developed into the current scheme of Revalidation which was implemented in April 2016.[8]

Personal life

Death

Green died on 30 March 2017. Her funeral took place on 18 April 2017, at Christ the King Church, Bagshot.[9]

Honours

Green was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1986 Birthday Honours List.[10]

A devout Roman Catholic, she was made a Dame of St Gregory (DSG), conferred on her by the Diocese of Plymouth.

In 1987, Green was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN). [11]

References
  1. "General Nursing Council, Register of Nursing". Ancestry. 1955–1956.
  2. "New RCN Post for Margaret Green". Nursing Times. 69 (4).
  3. "Rcn: new posts in professional department". Nursing Times. 70 (42).
  4. "Margaret Green – education pioneer". Nursing Standard. 31 (41).
  5. "Margaret Green – education pioneer". Nursing Standard. 31 (41).
  6. Project 2000, UKCC: A new preparation for practice. United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. 1986. ISBN 0951144006.
  7. "UKCC approval puts PREP on course for implementation". Nursing Standard. 8 (23).
  8. "Record as you learn". Nursing Standard. 30 (12).
  9. "Green; Margaret Dorothy (1929–2017); nurse leader (epexio.com)". 2023.
  10. "Page 1 | Supplement 50551, 13 June 1986 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
  11. "RCN Fellows and Honorary Fellows".
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