June Health History Events

  • On June 14th Visiting Scholar Dr. Tommy Dickinson presents his work on “‘Curing Queers’: Mental Nurses and their Patients 1935-1974” at the UBC School of Nursing. This is a lunch hour session from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Room T182 on the third floor of UBC Hospital. Please click on the link below for more details.
  • From June 16-18, The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing Annual Conference will be held at St. Paul’s Hospital. You are invited to register for the entire conference (June 16-18) or for just the opening panel on “Health, History, and Indigenous Communities” on Thursday June 16th from 5:00 pm. 

To register online for the conference or panel, please visit http://blogs.ubc.ca/nursinghistory/

Photo Credit: Lenore Radom BCHNS

BCHNS member gets article posted on Bates Center Blog

BCHNC Member is published

BCHNS member, Lydia Wytenbroek wrote an article in Honor of Nurses Week- “The Stethoscope: A Tool of Nurses’ Trade since the 1930’s” that got published today May 12th, as a lead article on the Blog “Echoes & Evidence” at The Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

Click on link to view this article & others… Congratulations Lydia!

https://historian.nursing.upenn.edu

JUNE 16 – 18 CAHN CONFERENCE DETAILS

Registration and information about the Annual Conference, “Brains, Guts and Gumption: Historical Perspectives on Nursing Education, Practice and Entrepreneurship” (Vancouver, June 16-18, 2016) is now available on the CAHN/ACHN website.

Early bird registration is open until April 30th. This option allows you to register for parking at the Century Plaza Hotel for $10.00/day on Friday and Saturday.

 To register, please follow this link: http://cahn-achn.ca/annual-conference/

To view a preliminary program, please follow this link: http://cahn-achn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/CAHN-2016-Preliminary-Program-Final-Version-2.pdf

CNA Nurse Emeritis

The Canadian Nurses Association is now providing retired nurses with a Nurse Emeritis membership.  This includes receiving the Canadian Nurse Journal, certain 3rd party benefits and certain discounts with Telus.

Full membership fee for retired nurses is $54.95 / year and will be pro-rated if registering part way thru the year. BC Tax rate of 5% added = $57.70

Registration form on website and Online registration is also available        https://www.join.cna-aiic.ca.

CAHN Conference open for Registration!!

Online registration button for the CAHN conference to the Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry blog is now available.

Everyone is invited to the conference, which is held in Vancouver June 16-18, 2016 at St. Paul’s Hospital. We are very excited and hope to see many of you in June!

All the information (such as the preliminary program, information on accommodation, transportation, parking and the registration button) is available on our blog at: http://blogs.ubc.ca/nursinghistory/