The books listed here (published from 2006 to 2024) will be of interest to nurses, historians, and others. For more information about each book, search the BCHNS blogs and newsletters which often feature detailed and informative reviews of each book.

• Zerr, Sheila, Zilm, Glennis and Grant, Valerie, (2006) Labor of Love: A Memoir of Gertrude Richards Ladner 1879 to 1976. ZGZ Publications.
• Southwell, Darlene. (2011). Caring and Compassion: A History of the Sisters of St. Ann in Health Care in British Columbia. Harbour Publishing.
• Harrison, Carol. (2011) A passion for prevention: Public health nursing in Skeena Health Unit, 1937-1997. First Choice Books.
• Bates, Christina. (2013). A Cultural History of the Nurse’s Uniform. Canadian Museum of History.
• Creelman, Lyle. (2014) The Frontiers of Global Nursing. University of Toronto Press.
• Quiney, Linda. (2017). This Small Army of Women. UBC Press
• Harrison, Carol. (2017). Miller Bay Indian Hospital: Life and Work in a TB Sanatorium. First Choice Books.
• Smith, Lisa. (2017). Emily Patterson, the Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse. Ronsdale Press.
• Armstrong-Reid, Susan. (2017). China Gadabouts: New Frontiers of Humanitarian Nursing. 1941-51. UBC Press.
• Larsen, Takaia, and Hall, Bob. (2017) Journeys Taken: Selkirk College: The First 50 Years. Selkirk College.
• Shore, Helen. (2019). Shore to Shore: A record of the Shore family of Sheffield, England. Independently Published.
• Mynett, Geoff. (2019). Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician. Ronsdale Press.
• Wilson, Amy. (2019). When Days Are Long: Nurse in the North. Caitlin Press.
• Richardson, D. J. (2020) In Her Own Footsteps: Flora Ross and Her Struggle for Identity and Independence in the Colonial West. Butterworth Books.
• Hicks, Beverley Clare Williams. (2020). Politics, Personalities, and Persistence One Hundred Years of Psychiatric Nursing in Manitoba. Friesen Press.
• Stephens, Gloria. (2020). Remembering Nurses Who Served. MacKenzie Publishing.
• Kelly, Dianne. (2021). Asleep in the Deep: Nursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War. Goose lane Editions.
• Hebb, Ross. (2021). A Canadian Nurse in the Great War: The Diaries of Ruth Loggie, 1915-1916. Nimbus Publishing.
• Graves, Dianne. (2021). In the Company of Sisters: Canada’s Women in the War Zone, 1914-1919. Robin Brass Studio.
• Crook, Marion McKinnon. (2021) Always Pack a Candle – A nurse in the Cariboo – Chilcotin. Heritage House.
• Adams, John. (2021). Old Square Toes and His Lady: The Life of James and Amelia Douglas. Touchwood Editions.
• Baker, Elise. (2022). Nightingales, Bluebirds, and Angels of Mercy. Elise Baker.
• Mynett, Geoff, (2022) River of Mists People of the Upper Skeena 1821-1930. Caitlin Press
• Crook, Marion McKinnon. (2024) Always On Call-Adventures in Nursing, Ranching, and Rural Living. Heritage House

The aim of the journal Quality Advancement in Nursing Education (QANE) is to provide a forum in which to address questions and issues related specifically to quality advancement in nursing education.

Congratulations to these authors!

• Duncan, Susan M.; Scaia, Margaret R.; and Boschma, Geertje (2020) ““100 Years of University Nursing Education”: The Significance of a Baccalaureate Nursing Degree and Its Public Health Origins for Nursing Now,”  Quality Advancement in Nursing Education– Avancées en formation infirmière: Vol. 6: Iss. 2, Article 8.

To read the full article, click here.

• Cook, Sarah C. and Grypma, Sonya (2020) “Accepted in Bella Bella: A historical exemplar of a missionary nursing education, in British Columbia from 1921-1925,” Quality Advancement in Nursing Education – Avancées en formation infirmière: Vol. 6: Iss. 2, Article 10.

To read the full article, click here.

BCHNS 1947 – 2011 Papers, Theses and Dissertations are Listed and Stored at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections

If you require access to the original archival material click on the link: https://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/visiting/

If you are looking for other Theses and Dissertations you might also like to visit Theses Canada at https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/services/services-libraries/theses/Pages/theses-canada.aspx

• A Study of Staff Education Desired by General Duty Nurses – Beverly Marie Witter Du Gas >>READ NOW
• An Analysis of Certain Factors in the Diffusion of Innovations in Nursing Practice – Beverly Marie Witter Du Gas >>READ NOW
• Lenora Marcellus Paper and Article >>READ NOW
• Dorothea Dix: Her Parallel Influence on Mental Health and Children’s Health Reform in the 19th Century >>READ NOW
• Tiny Cripples and the Sunshine of Life: 15 Years of Children’s Nursing at Vancouver Island’s Queen Alexandra Solarium (1927-1942) >>READ NOW
• Critical Requirements of Nurse Teachers in Selected University Schools of Nursing – Elizabeth K. McCann >>READ NOW
• The Occupation of Heather Rose and the Profession of Nursing in the North – Mary Razzell Nicol >>READ NOW
• Immigrant Filipino Nurses in Western Canada: An Exploration of Motivations and Migration Experiences >>READ NOW
• Policy Development and Culture Change in BC Residential Elder Care (1950-2005) – Sara M. W. Tung >>READ NOW
• The Search for Legitimacy: Nurses’ Registration in BC (1913-1955) – Jo Ann Whittaker >>READ NOW
• Dogs and Seals are Trained, Nurses are Educated, Aren’t They? Nursing Education in Canada (1874-1930) – Jo Ann Whittaker >>READ NOW
• The Challenges of International Nursing as Experienced by WHO Nurse Margaret Campbell Jackson in Iran (1954-1956) – Lydia Wytenbroek >>READ NOW
• Voices from the Past: Nursing in British Columbia (1940-1969) – Kathryn Kellow >>READ NOW
• The History of Practical Nursing at Vancouver Community College – Patricia A. Hartley >>READ NOW