Sheila Quinn

Dame Sheila Margaret Imelda Quinn, DBE, FRCN, RGN, RM, RNT (16 September 1920–8 December 2016), was a British nurse and fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.

[1] Quinn trained as a State Registered Nurse at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary between 1943 and 1946.

[2][3] From 1961 to 1970, Quinn served on the administrative staff of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), of which she was executive director from 1967 to 1970.

In 1993, the ICN awarded her the Christiane Reimann Prize, which is given every four years for outstanding contribution to the profession.

[4] She helped found The Brendoncare Foundation for Total Care of the Elderly in the mid-1980s.