Pat Ashworth

Pat Ashworth
SRN, SCM, FRCN, FFNRCSI
Born1930 (1930)
Died26 January 2023(2023-01-26) (aged 92–93)
Portstewart, Northern Ireland

Pat Ashworth SRN, SCM, FRCN, FFNRCSI (1930 – 26 January 2023) was a British nursing sister who specialised in intensive care.

Ashworth was born in Maidstone, with her family moving to Hastings before she was evacuated during World War II due to bombing.[1] She started nursing at the age of 17 in Maidstone, qualified at Kent County Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital, Guy's Hospital, Jessop Hospital and Nether Edge Hospital.[2][3]

Ashworth worked in a number of nursing roles until 1973, then a Department of Health and Social Security fellowship until 1976, followed by a joint clinical/academic post at Manchester Royal Infirmary and the University of Manchester until 1979.[2]

Ashworth was Manchester's research programme manager at their WHO collaborating centre for nursing from 1979 to 1985; then a senior lecturer in nursing at the University of Ulster from 1985 to 1990.[2]

Ashworth served as founding editor of the journal Intensive Care Nursing (later Intensive and Critical Care Nursing) from 1985 to 2000.[2][4]

In 1979 she was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing.[5]

Ashworth died in Portstewart, Northern Ireland on 26 January 2023.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Ashworth; Patricia Mary (1930-2023); nurse educator". rcn.epexio.com. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  2. ^ a b c d Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2011). History of British Intensive Care, c. 1950–c. 2000. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-902238-75-6. Wikidata Q29581786.
  3. ^ "Ashworth; Patricia Mary (1930-2023); nurse educator". rcn.epexio.com. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  4. ^ Mathieson, Alex (February 2001). "A tribute to Pat Ashworth, founding Editor of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing". Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 17 (1): 3–5. doi:10.1054/iccn.2000.1554.
  5. ^ "RCN Archive Catalogue". rcn.epexio.com. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Obituary – Pat Ashworth (1930- 2023)". BACCN. 14 February 2023. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
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