Wikipedia says: Dame Margaret June Clark, DBE FRCN FAAN FLSW (born in 1941) is Professor Emeritus of Community Nursing, at Swansea University in Wales.
She worked as a health visitor, and remained in community nursing as a manager, professor, and political advocate for nearly 40 years. She obtained her MPhil degree at the University of Reading in 1972, and her PhD from South Bank Polytechnic in 1985.
During the 1990s she was consultant to the International Council of Nurses' project to develop an International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP). She is deputy president of the Welsh Nursing Academy. Clark qualified as a nurse at University College Hospital, London, after obtaining an honours degree in Classics at the University of London.
In 1990, she left the NHS and went into higher education as Professor of Nursing to start a new School of Nursing at Middlesex University. From 1990 to '94 she was president of the RCN
In 1997 she "went home to Wales" as the first professor of nursing at Swansea University.
Clark was responsible for the development of a program of research in community health nursing and primary health care at Swansea University. Her special interest is the development and use of standardized nomenclatures to describe nursing practice, in particular in primary health care.
The Dame June Clark Travel Scholarship Trust has been established for the purpose of increasing awareness and understanding among Welsh nurses about nursing in countries outside the UK, by supporting study visits to countries outside the UK or attendance at international conferences outside the UK.
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