BC History of Nursing Society Awarded Bursaries
2003
- Connie Lapadat:
- Paper: History and trend for doctoral prepared nurses in Canada.
- School: University of British Columbia
2004
- Linda Lemke:
- Paper: Analysis of a Primary Document “This is a friendly house which will cap lives of devoted service”.
- School: University of British Columbia
2005
- Lenora Marcellus:
- Paper: Tiny Cripples and the Sunshine of Life: 15 Years of Children’s Nursing at Vancouver Island’s Queen Alexandra Solarium 1927-1942.
- School: University of Alberta
- Jaclyn Madsen:
- Paper: Image of Nursing through History.
- School: Kwantlen University College
- Deborah Hamilton:
- Paper: The Historical development of the Critical Care Nurse.
- School: University of British Columbia
2006
- Nerrisa Bonifacio:
- Paper: The evolution of family visitation in the Post-Anesthetic Recovery Room.
- School: University of British Columbia
- Georgia Ioannou:
- Paper: Emergency Preparedness & Disaster Management Nurses Role in International Health Care.
- School: Grand Canyon University, Arizona (Online Masters)
2007
- Erica Roberts:
- Paper: An oral history of nurse educator’s experiences in developing Gerontological nursing.
- School: University of British Columbia
- Jennifer Dunlop:
- Paper: To provide a historical context to the current debate of the role of nurse anesthetists in Canada.
- School: University of British Columbia
2008
- Margaret Scaia:
- Paper: To explore and understand significant intersections between the history of women, work and motherhood as reflected in changes in the social construction of nursing during the 1960’s.
- School: University of Victoria
2009
- Rosalyn Choi:
- Paper: The History of Deinstitutionalization and the Emergence of Survivor Groups and their Perspectives on BC Mental Health Reform.
- School: University of BritishColumbia
- Sara Tung:
- Paper: Policy Development and Cultural Change in BC Residential Elder Care: 1950-2005.
- School: University of British Columbia
- Nerrisa Bonifacio:
- Paper: History of the Post-Anaesthetic Care Unit with emphasis on the development of specialty nursing.
- School: University of British Columbia
- Charlene Ronquillo:
- Paper: History of Immigrant Filipino nurses in Canada
- School: University of British Columbia
2010
- Christine Switzer
- Project: Collection of documents and pictures of Mary Isabel MacDonald (1891-1970) detailing her life journey to become a nurse.
- School: Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- Helen Vandenberg
- Paper: The History of Japanese, Chinese and East Indian Health Care and Services in BC from 1880-1920.
- School: University of British Columbia
2011
- Dorolen Wolfs
- Paper: Self-Expressed Identity of BC Nurses who Commenced Their Careers in the Post WWII Period (1945-1950): A Historical Inquiry
- School: University of the FraserValley.
2012
- Lydia Wytenbroek
- Paper: I Don’t Think I Want a Career with this WHO: The Challenges of International Nursing as Experienced by WHO Nurse Margaret Campbell Jackson in Iran 1954-56
- School: Trinity Western University.
- Melissa Suzuki
- Paper: “Public Health Nursing Education and the Child Guidance Clinics in British Columbia 1932-1950″
- School: Trinity Western University
2013
- Catherine Haney Helen Shore Bursary
- Paper: “The Development of Abortion Nursing in Canada with Implications of Women’s Health Today”
- School: UBC
- Shari Caputo
- Paper: “A Social History Study on Licensed Practical Nurse Development in Western Canada”
- School: UBC
2014
- Catherine Haney: Nina Rumen Bursary
- Paper: “Towards Patient-Centered Reproductive Healthcare in Canada”
- School: UBC
- Sandra Hlina
- Paper: “To explore and understand the transition of nursing education from the hospital based model to the academic model using the biographical framework of Mary Lewis Richmond
- School: UBC
2015
- Lydia Wytenbroek
- Paper PhD: “Contested Health Care: Gender, Faith, Professionalism, Nationalism and American Medicine in Iran 1920-1960
- School: York University
- Hrag Yacoubian
- Paper: To Study the Humanitarian Relief Work of Missionary Nurses to Better Understand the Role that the North American Nurses Played During and After the Armenian Genocide.
- School: UBC-MSN
2016
- Taranjot Gill
- Paper: To examine what has influenced the development and current status of Public Health Nursing in BC.
- School: UBC-MSN.
2017
- Sarah Cook
- Paper: The historical nursing experience of the Nichols sisters in northern BC from 1921-1935
- School: Trinity Western – Masters
2018
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- David Yacoubian
- Paper: Canadian nurses’ transnational leadership during the Armenian Genocide
- School: UBC -Doctoral student
2019 The BCHNS Board changed the word Scholarship to Bursary in order to reflect the nature of the award
2020 Spring
- David Yacoubian
- Paper: The History of Nursing and Humanitarianism in the near East 1890-1930
- School: UBC Doctoral Student
2020 Fall
- Michelle Danda,
- Paper: A Historical examination of the evolution of Psychiatric Nurse Education in BC from the years 1913-2018”
- School: University of Alberta Doctoral Student.
- Ismalia De Sousa,
- Paper: “Black Nurses in British Columbia: Exploring Their (in)visibility between 1850 and 1940”.
- School: UBC Doctoral Student.
2021 Fall
- Michelle Danda
- Paper: Exploring the History of Registered Psychiatric Nursing Education in British Columbia from 1913-2012
- School: University of Alberta Doctoral Student
2022 Fall
- Michelle Danda
- Paper: Exploring the History of Registered Psychiatric Nursing Education in British Columbia from 1913-2012
- School: University of Alberta Doctoral Student
2023 Spring
- Alistair White
- Paper: The Complex Role of Public Health Nurses in the Yukon: A Historical Analysis of Gender, Race and Colonialism, 1945-1990
- School: University of British Columbia School of Nursing