Professionalisation
What Professionalisation means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The shift in the recruitment and training of combatants towards professional standards, culminating in Cardwell's army reforms.
Nightingale's 1860 nursing school turned nursing into a respected profession.
Topics that use Professionalisation
- Option 11: c1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - 2 Approaches to prevention and treatment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 12: c1700–c1900: Warfare and British society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - 1 The nature of warfare (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Government intervention
- Hospital Care
- Industrialisation
- Local depots
- Logistics and supply
- Prevention of Disease
- Public health
- Role of Individuals
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