New South Wales Bush Nursing Association
Nurses listening to Lady Dudley outlining her Bush Nursing Scheme in 1910 | |
| Founded | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Rachel Ward, Countess of Dudley |
| Purpose | to "provide gratuitously or otherwise Trained Nurses and other requisites and attention for sick and injured persons in country towns and districts" |
| Headquarters | Sydney |
| Subsidiaries | 119 locations at its height |
The New South Wales Bush Nursing Association was an Australian nursing organization founded in 1911 by Rachel Ward, Countess of Dudley, while she was serving as the Viceregal consort of Australia. It grew to over one hundred locations It was discontinued in the 1970s as its organisation was taken over by the country's health department.