by admin | May 27, 2023 | HON News, Member News, Uncategorized
President: Geertje Boschma Hello everyone! I am looking forward to meeting and working with all of you! I am a professor at the UBC-V School of Nursing and teach in the undergraduate and graduate programs. My research centers on the history of nursing and mental...
by admin | Jun 13, 2022 | HON News, Uncategorized
June 1 marks the start of National Indigenous History Month in Canada. Formally declared in 2009, the month encourages Canadians to take time to learn about the history, heritage, resiliency, and diversity of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. We recognize and honour Tania...
by admin | Sep 18, 2021 | HON News
Jessie Mantle was born in Chemainus and received her diploma in nursing in 1950 from the Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing in Victoria. Her professional nursing career spanned 40 years and her educational accomplishments included a BSN from McGill in 1966, a...
by admin | Jun 1, 2020 | HON News, Uncategorized
Very interesting article shared in the Community Health Nurses of BC Newsletter…this dissertation submitted by: Megan Kirk RN, BScN,MSc,PhD(c) toward her PhD. The whole newsletter in fact, made for interesting reading during Nurses week and Year of the Nurse. ...
by admin | Jun 16, 2019 | Conferences, Displays, HON News
2019 BCHF Annual Conference June 6 – 9, 2019, Courtenay, Comox and Cumberland B.C. Glennis Zilm and Nan Martin were delighted to represent our Society at yet another very successful BC Historical Federation conference in...
by admin | Jun 5, 2019 | Awards, HON News, Uncategorized
Joanne Whitelaw, daughter of the late June Newton, sent us an e-mail telling us that her mother’s friend and fellow nursing sister Maxine Bredt, had recently received a Quilt of Valor. Maxine, a graduate of the Royal Jubilee Hospital served with her classmate June...
