BCHNS Member Sharron Higgins receives Award

Sharron Higgins jump started the health promoting schools movement in the Capital Regional District and in British Columbia. With a strong career as a Public Health Nurse she encouraged many school and community workshops on the nature of inclusiveness, engagement,...

The Inmates are running the Asylum: Stories from the early days of the Vancouver Mental Patient’s Association Interested students, faculty and the wider UBC School of Nursing community are invited to attend the showing of a documentary film about the early days of the...

Call for Abstracts!

The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing /Association Canadienne pour l’Histoire du Nursing Annual Conference will be held June 13-15, 2014 at York University, Toronto, Canada. The theme for the 2014 conference is Local Work, Global Health and the Challenge...

Nina Rumen Bursary Presentation

BC History of Nursing Society Presentation of the Nina Rumen Bursary January 18, 2014 Nina Rumen, an Honorary member of the BC History of Nursing Society since 2003, has experienced the health system as a nurse and a patient.  Based on this, and concern about the need...