Nurses being called Sister & Matron

[Downunderduchess]

I can remember many years ago that senior nurses were referred to as sister and matron depending on seniority. When did this change or am I not remembering correctly?

They still are called sister, senior sister and matron in many hospitals - as well as charge nurse

I'm not sure; I did my training starting in 2006 and they were long gone except the older nurses. I loved being referred to as Nurse Surname, and referring to my Senior as Sister Surname.

What would a senior male nurse be called?

Deputy or senior charge nurse for sister. Matron is used in our Trust for both sexes.

Im a senior sister and a lot of other staff call me "sister" I also call my Matron "Matron" now and again. Still really common

Still Sister/Charge Nurse in hospitals as well as Matron (male or female) 🙂

In my role in a specialist community setting I’m a Senior Nurse and my line manager is a Clinical Nurse Specialist (my next goal!)

Nursing student here and we still have sister and matrons

Sister/Senior sister is not the same as matron. Women are also called charge nurse

Sister/charge nurse used to be the same grade/ band in the trust I worked for ,they brought back the matron ,aka as " modern matron "in the early 00,s in rea!ity it's just another tier of management.

in reality it's just another tier of management
@x2boys what's that even mean. Of course it's a layer of management 🙄 They do the stuff the band 7s haven't time to do.

Its not changed wherever Ive worked, on wards/ICU they are still addressed as Staff Nurse for band 5 qualified nurse, Sister at band 6, Senior Sister band 7, Matron band 8. Charge nurse is interchange title for a male or female “sister” if they prefer. I work under a male Matron at the moment. Theres other sidelines such as clinical nurse Specialist, advance nurse practitioner etc

Despite etymology of the word, I've heard both men and women use the job title of 'matron'

Sister is way less common, and might well be ward manager (a term I dislike as it sounds more clerical than clinical, but you do get used to the jargon sense)

Nurse is a band 5, sister is a band 6, senior sister band 7 and matron is band 8. Male band 6 or 7 is charge nurse. Usually different uniforms for each.

I work in general practice and am still called sister.

I am a Community Matron so the title is still used, my male colleagues are also Matrons too.

I'm a ward sister, says so on my badge. Senior sister is ward manager, above that is matron

It hasn’t changed OP.

We have ward sisters and a matron on our ward.

I can remember my dsis laughing her head off when I told her I told her I couldn't understand why my consultant had a nun working with him called Sister Susan (I was 18.... catholic school educated )
Then a few weeks later I had surgery and thought I'd died as I woke up with an actual nun staring into my face in recovery. Don't ever mention you're catholic when filling out the pre op forms! I had to try and recall which church I belonged to and say a prayer (v v lapsed by this point)
I think my dsis set it up

In your trust maybe. In mine the sister is a ward manager, often called a clinical lead, and can be a 6 or 7 depending on the size of the ward. SIL is an ITU nurse and is a band 7 because of her extra experience and training, no sign of management in her role.