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On all frontiers four centuries of Canadian nursing

Bates, Christina.

Ottawa Ont. : Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa = University of Ottawa Press 2005

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  • Title:
    On all frontiers four centuries of Canadian nursing
  • Author: Bates, Christina.; Dodd, Dianne E. (Dianne Elizabeth), 1955-; Rousseau, Nicole.; Canadian Museum of Civilization.
  • Publisher: Ottawa Ont. : Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa = University of Ottawa Press
  • Creation Date: 2005
  • Language: English
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.).
  • Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references: p. 243-246.
  • Subjects: Nursing -- Canada -- History; Nurses -- Canada -- History
  • Description: Nursing has a long and varied history in Canada. Since the founding of the first hospital by the Augustine nuns in 1637, nurses have contributed greatly to Canadians' quality of life. On All Frontiers is a comprehensive history of Canadian nursing. Editors Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, and Nicole Rousseau have brought together a vast body of research into one volume. Authored by leading experts, the chapters and vignettes form an overview of the history of Canadian nursing to date. From the midwives of early Canada to urban public health nurses, from remote outposts
  • Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. 243-246.
  • Contents: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: In the Home; Chapter 1 Lay Nursing from the New France Era to the End of the Nineteenth Century (1608-1891); Chapter 2 Canadian Midwifery: Blending Traditional and Modern Practices; Chapter 3 The Trained Nurse: Private Duty and VON Home Nursing (Late 1800s to 1940s); Part Two: In the Hospital; Chapter 4 Healing the Body and Saving the Soul: Nursing Sisters and the First Catholic Hospitals in Quebec (1639-1880); Chapter 5 The Nightingale Influence and the Rise of the Modern Hospital
    Chapter 6 ""Body Work,"" Medical Technology, and Hospital Nursing PracticePart Three: In the Community; Chapter 7 Public Health Nursing; Part Four: On the Frontier; Chapter 8 Religious Nursing Orders of Canada: A Presence on All Western Frontiers; Chapter 9 Outpost Nursing in Canada; Part Five: On the Battlefield; Chapter 10 Caregiving on the Front: The Experience of Canadian Military Nurses during World War I; Chapter 11 ""Ready, Aye Ready"": Canadian Military Nurses as an Expandable and Expendable Workforce (1920-2000); Part Six: In the Classroom, in the Boardroom, and on the Picket Line
    Chapter 12 Enough but Not Too Much: Nursing Education in English Language Canada (1874-2000)Chapter 13 Professionalism and Canadian Nursing; Chapter 14 Unionization of Canadian Nursing; Notes; Selected Readings; Contributors
  • OCLC Number: 180704550
    864851836
  • Identifier: ISBN1-280-69076-3;ISBN9786613667700;ISBN0-7766-1667-6
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