by admin | Nov 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
The 2021 joint meeting of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing will be a virtual conference on June 1 & 2, 2021. COVID-19 has revealed the multiple ways that structural discrimination shapes...
by admin | Oct 2, 2020 | Events, Uncategorized
School District 60 received more than 70 public submissions about a name for Fort St. John’s new elementary school, and pioneer nurse Anne Roberts Young was top among the suggestions. Roberts was the first registered nurse stationed in the North Peace, arriving...
by admin | Jun 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dr. Shirley Marie Stinson, OC, AOE, RN, EdD, LLD (Hon), DSc (Hon), DSL (Hon) Shirley Marie Stinson, an outstanding and visionary nursing leader, passed away Thursday, June 4, 2020, from complications of Parkinson’s Disease at the age of 90 years. Her major...
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 | May 21, 2020 | Displays, Uncategorized
A recent article published during Nurse’s Week, (Tri-City news May 14, 2020) celebrates Psychiatric Nursing. Andrea Tarnawsky Assistant Archivist for the City of Coquitlam Archives researched and wrote the online exhibit An Emerging Profession: Psychiatric Nursing at...
by admin | May 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Monday May 11, 2020 marks the start of National Nursing Week in Canada. The week, which began in 1971, is intended to draw attention to nurses in our health care system, and to recognize their hard work they do year-round. Gloria Stephens, a former BCHNS member who...
