Juanita Bennett Rule, OBE, FRCN (20 November 1914 – 23 March 2008) was a British nurse, educator and trade unionist. Having trained as a nurse in the 1930s, she moved into nurse education following the Second World War. She rose to become director of the Royal College of Nursing's Institute of Advance Nursing Education from 1971 until her retirement in 1976, and was the elected deputy president of the Royal College of Nursing from 1976 to 1978.[1][2]
In the 1976 Queen's Birthday Honours, Rule was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of her work with the Institute of Advance Nursing Education.[3] Also in 1976, she was part of the first cohort of nurses to be made appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN), "in recognition of her exceptional commitment to nursing practice through the better education of nurses at all levels".[1]
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- ^ a b Dianne, Yarwoood. "Rule, Juanita Bennett (1914–2008)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/100126. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Dopson, Laurence (16 April 2008). "Juanita Rule: Innovator in nurse education". The Independent. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "No. 46919". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1976. pp. 8023–8025.