Does anyone know what the Training School Badges for Enrolled Nurses looked like or have a photograph of the design for the finding Schools of Nursing
1 Guys Hospital
2 Westminster Hospital
3 Kings College Hospital
I am aware that Enrolled Nurses received training at Hospitals that merged or were in the same group as the School of Nursing belonging to the hospital concerned. Maybe they were given the same badge as RGNs.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Hi Johnny
I believe the Westminister awarded a green enamelled version of the blue enamelled badge awarded to RN's. Kings awarded the same green enamelled hospital badge to both EN's & RN's. I've no idea re Guys badge but in the absence of only ever seeing the bronze GHNL & the latter GH badge I suspect there wasn't one denoting EN's.
My hospital badge was awarded to both RN's & EN's with no difference regarding roll or register.
Mike
Thanks Mike for your help much appreciated. Was the Westminster in green enamel a school of nursing badge or a nurse league badge? Most of the London Teaching Hospital issued badges similar in design to the RGN ones but had Enrolled Nurse inscribed on them. There were generally fewer pupil nurses in classes compared to student nurses intakes. Hence there were less hospital badges issued upon completion of the SEN training. Do you think this is one of the reasons for the scarcity of such badges and the prices being so high when they come up for sale?
I may have got it wrong about the Westminister EN badge and I'm sure I've seen the blue enamelled badge with & without the word League on it. The price of any badge depends on several factors including rarity, age, who it belonged to, who wants it, it's geographic location, the metal it's made of to name a few. There are several posts regarding this on the site.
Just looked through some old files and as far the Westminster is concerned the original badge issued was only for the Nurses league,the buckle being their equivalent of the qualification badge.I did find one variant which was Westminster Hospital Training School which sold in 2003,it may have had a green enamel edge but its difficult to tell.
I am unaware of separate EN badges for Kings and Guys but agree that training numbers were usually far more limited with some London Hospitals not running EN courses until quite late.As Mike says there are many factors in prices and EN badges are often scarcer and thus more desirable.