Biographical notes

Biographical notes

Inr .I. Nurs. Stud. Vol. 14. pp. 2-4. Pergamon Press, 1977. FIinted in Great Bntarn Biographical Notes BRIAN MOORES Author of: Feelings of alienatio...

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Inr .I. Nurs. Stud. Vol. 14. pp. 2-4. Pergamon Press,

1977. FIinted in Great Bntarn

Biographical Notes BRIAN MOORES Author of: Feelings of alienation among nursing stuffin hospitals for the mentally handicapped B. Moores is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. After a two year spell at Johns Hopkins he returned to this country intent on applying Operational Research based techniques to the health care delivery system. His prime interests are investment in mental health and various facets of the nurse manpower planning problem. G. W. B. GRANT Joint author with B. Moores 03 Feelings of alienation among nursing staffin hospitals for the mentally handicapped Dr. Grant is currently the research officer for Gwynedd County Council Social Services Department. The work described in this article was conducted whilst he was a doctoral student in the Department of Management of Sciences at U.M.I.S.T.

BRIAN MOORES Author ofi Optimists andpessimists: Attitudes of nursing staff towards the development potential of mentally handicappedpatients in their charge B. Moores is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. After a two year spell at Johns Hopkins he returned to this country intent on applying Operational Research based techniques to the health care delivery system. His prime interests are investment in mental health and various facets of the nurse manpower planning problem. G. W. B. GRANT Joint author with B. Moores of: Optimists andpessimists: Attitudes of nursing staff towards the development potential of mentally handicapped patients in their charge Dr. Grant is currently the research officer for Gwynedd County Council Social Services Department. The work described in this article was conducted whilst he was a doctoral student in the Department of Management Sciences at U.M.I.S.T. 2

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ROSEMARY WHITE Author of: The development of the Poor Law Nursing Service 1848-1948. A discussion of the historicalmethod and a summary of some of the$ndings.

Rosemary White, M.Sc., S.R.N., S.C.M., O.H.N.C., was for many years an occupational health nurse and, before she left that field, was Chief Nursing Officer and Principal Nursing Officer of several large corporations. Awarded a Department of Health and Social Security Research Fellowship in 1973 to study at University of Manchester. Gained her M.Sc. in ‘Public Health’ following presentation of a thesis entitled The Development of the Poor Law Nursing Service 1848-1948. She is currently Area Nurse (Research and Development), Hampshire Area Health Authority (Teaching).

S. E. M. O’BRIEN Author of: Attitudes of medical and nursing stafftowards self-poisoning patients in a London hospital

Sally O’Brien qualified as an S.R.N. at Westminster Hospital (London) and spent a further time working in hospitals both in and outside London. She completed a Social Administration degree at the London School of Economics, and is at present doing a part time Ph.D. at the same department. She is employed as a lecturer in Community Medicine at Westminster Medical School where she is engaged in a long term study on young people taking overdoses in central London.

K. A. STOLL Joint author with S. E. M. 0 ‘Brien of Attitudes of medical and nursing staff towards self-poisoning patients in a London hospital

Keith Stoll completed psychology and physiology degrees at the University of London, followed by a period of lecturing in the Department of Social Administration.at the London School of Economics. He is at present completing his Ph.D. at the Institute of Psychiatry where his work has included studies on the prescription of anxiolytics, and the anxiety levels in the Southwark (London) population. Ongoing research includes a study of the attitudes of drug addicts and depressives undergoing residential treatment at various rehabilitation centres in London.

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HILL CHAVIGNY

Author of! Microbial infections in hospitals: A review oj the literature and some suggestions for nursing research Katherine Hill Chavigny received her R.N. in Manchester, England. She is at present a doctoral candidate in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A., and is on the nursing faculty at the University of Colorado in Denver. Recently, she chaired the Committee for a Position Paper on Infection Control Practice for the American Nurses Association, and is a nurse consultant at the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia.

M. R. KINNEY Author of: EfJects qfpreoperative response

teaching upon patients to threatening stimuli

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Dr. Kinney received the B.S.N. and M.S.N. degrees from the University of Alabama School of Nursing and was awarded the Doctor of Nursing Science degree from the Catholic University of America. She is presently Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Named as an Outstanding Young Woman in America in 1975, she is also listed in the 1976 edition of ‘Who’s Who’ in the United States.