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Patricia Sunderland: an Irish registered mental nurse and pioneer of occupational therapy

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Occupational therapy started at Cardiff City Mental Hospital in 1930, led by Sister Patricia Sunderland, a registered mental nurse and occupational therapist. This is noteworthy because neither Wales, nor Sunderland, have been recognised as pioneers of occupational therapy before. Sunderland’s description of a hospital wide service for in- and out-patients at Cardiff is one of the first accounts written by an occupational therapist.[1] Research to date indicates that Sunderland was the first Irish person to use the title and to write about occupational therapy in Wales.[2]
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UKAHN Bulletin: UK Association for the History of Nursing, 2023, 11 (1)
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Patricia Sunderland, occupational therapy, mental health nurse, pioneer, Health sciences
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https://doi.org/10.34961/researchrepository-ul.25204493
 https://researchrepository.ul.ie/handle/10344/13355
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