Margaret Scott-Wright

Margaret Scott-Wright (1923 – 11 March 2008) was a Professor of Nursing at the University of Edinburgh, and later head of nursing schools in Canada. Her research related to public health and nursing education. In 1971, she became the first professor in Nursing Studies in the United Kingdom.

Margaret Scott-Wright
An older white woman wearing glasses and a business suit.
Margaret Scott-Wright, from a 1984 yearbook.
Born1923 (1923)
Norwich, England
Died11 March 2008(2008-03-11) (aged 84–85)
Other namesMargaret Scott Wright (no hyphen)
Education
Occupation(s)Nursing educator, college administrator

Early life and education

Margaret Scott-Wright was from Norwich.[1] She earned a degree in history at the University of Edinburgh in 1946.[2] She also earned certification as a nurse and as a midwife at the St George's Hospital School of Nursing in London.[3] In 1961, she completed doctoral work on public health at the University of Edinburgh.[4] Her research considered the factors of success or failure in Scottish student nurses.[5]

Career

After training, Scott-Wright stayed at St George's Hospital as deputy matron, then worked as director of nursing at Middlesex Hospital.[4] When Elsie Stephenson died in 1967, Scott-Wright succeeded her as director of the nursing studies program at Edinburgh,[6] and in 1971 became the first chair of a nursing studies department in the United Kingdom.[3][7][2] She was a member of the Briggs Committee on nursing education,[3][8] and served a term as vice president of the International Council of Nurses (ICN).[4]

Scott-Wright moved to Canada in 1976, where she served as director of the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia for three years, and as dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary from 1979[9] until her retirement in 1985,[10] with one final stint as acting dean to cover a vacancy in 1989.[4][11] Scott-Wright and others built a foundation for Canada's first doctoral program in nursing at Calgary.[12]

Personal life and legacy

Margaret Scott-Wright retired to Norwich, and died in 2008, aged 84 years.[1] The Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing held an annual Margaret Scott Wright Research Day, to highlight student and faculty research in the field, until 2019, when it was renamed the Dr. Shirley Stinson Research Conference, after one of Scott-Wright's colleagues.[13][14] The University of Calgary offered an annual Margaret Scott Wright Scholarship for nursing student.[15]

References
  1. Leung, Terence (11 May 2008). "Dr. Margaret Scott Wright". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  2. "Professor of Nursing Appointed". The Guardian. 6 January 1972. p. 6. Retrieved 18 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Margaret Scott Wright". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  4. Boschma, Geertje. "Developing Nursing Scholarship and Research: The Innovative Leadership of Margaret Scott Wright, 1946 -1985" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Wright, Margaret Scott (1968). Student nurses in Scotland : characteristics of success and failure. Edinburgh : Scottish Home and Health Dept.
  6. "University News". The Guardian. 23 April 1968. p. 5. Retrieved 18 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Professor Margaret Scott Wright". The Times. 2008. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  8. Wright, Margaret Scott (November 1974). "Education in the Professions Allied to Medicine". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 67 (9): 940–943. doi:10.1177/003591577406700945. ISSN 0035-9157.
  9. "Two New Deans". Calgary Herald. 28 April 1979. p. 50. Retrieved 18 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Ross-Kerr, Janet C. (1998). Prepared to Care: Nurses and Nursing in Alberta, 1859 to 1996. University of Alberta. pp. 189–191. ISBN 978-0-88864-292-9.
  11. Boschma, Geertje (2005). Faculty of Nursing on the Move: Nursing at the University of Calgary, 1969-2004. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-112-0.
  12. Trojan, L.; Marck, P.; Gray, C.; Rodger, G. L. (1996). "A framework for planned change: achieving a funded PhD program in nursing". Canadian Journal of Nursing Administration. 9 (1): 71–86. ISSN 0838-2948. PMID 8695610.
  13. "31st Margaret Scott Wright Research Day". Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing / Association canadienne des écoles de sciences infirmières (CASN / ACESI). (in French). 7 June 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  14. "32nd Margaret Scott Wright Research Day". Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing / Association canadienne des écoles de sciences infirmières (CASN / ACESI). (in French). 22 June 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  15. "Margaret Scott Wright Scholarship". University of Calgary. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
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