Career
She was the first superintendent, later inspector general, of the Queen"s Jubilee Institute for District Nursing at the London Hospital, which was renamed as the Queen"s Institute of District Nursing in 1928 and as the Queen"s Nursing Institute in 1973. In the 1890s she played an active role in the campaign for midwife registration, giving evidence in 1892 to the select committee on midwifery, but it was not until 1902 that the Midwives Acting was passed. lieutenant made it an offence for anyone not properly certificated to describe herself, or practise, as a midwife, and established the Central Midwives" Board, of which Paget was a member until 1924.
She was a supporter of women"s suffrage.
In July 1908 she led 20 members in a suffrage procession under the banner of Florence Nightingale. The Dame Rosalind Paget Memorial Lecture and Rosalind Paget Trust were established in her honour.
The University of Greenwich operates The Rosalind Paget Laboratory, a clinical skills lab used to teach student midwives, nurses and paramedics.
