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Obituaries
Our obituary notices celebrate the lives and work of the nurses who helped shape the profession.
Sue Pettett
1948-2012 Nurse, RCN activist and health and safety advocate
Elizabeth Brown
1932-2012 Worker and campaigner
Trudie Moos
1923-2012 Director of nurse education
Dorothy Gardiner
1924-2012 Nurse, entrepreneur and agency nurse champion
Gill Butler
1942-2012 Nurse campaigner for asylum and human rights
Olive (Edith) Senior
1934-2012 Regional nursing officer, health visitor and teacher
Caroline Soar
1952-2012 Nurse who helped set up the RCN ethics forum
Shirley Graham-Paul
1938-2012 Founding member of the Friends of Mary Seacole
Hettie Hopkins
1919-2012 Secretary of the RCN Welsh board 1963-78
Wendy Cross
1933-2011 Awarded MBE for nursing Moorgate tube casualties
The RCN Publishing Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, the world's largest organisation for nurses. RCN Publishing produces one weekly, eight monthly and two quarterly nursing publications. Nursing Standard, the flagship journal, is the UK's biggest selling weekly for nursing. It is produced by RCN Publishing Company along with a suite of specialist nursing journals - Cancer Nursing Practice, Mental Health Practice, Learning Disability Practice, Nursing Children and Young People, Nursing Management, Emergency Nurse, Nursing Older People, Nurse Researcher and Primary Health Care. RCN Publishing Company also produce the RCN Bulletin, a major source of up-to-the-minute information for RCN members in all specialities, grades and working environments. With the latest nurse vacancies from trusts nationwide, it has become the most cost-effective nurse recruitment magazine available.