Crocket, Wilma Elaine (1951-2001)

Crocket, Wilma Elaine (1951-2001)

BIOGRAPHICAL FILES: Crocket, Wilma Elaine (1951-2001)   Back to all Biographical Files Wilma Crockett graduated from the Prince Edward Island School of Nursing in 1972. She came to work at the Trail Regional Hospital, and in 1980 began her focus on dialysis care. She...
Dick, Tania

Dick, Tania

BIOGRAPHICAL FILES: Dick, Tania   Back to all Biographical Files An aboriginal from Kingcome Inlet, Tania has survived racism and discrimination to become a specialist in Emergency and Aboriginal Health.  She has been a RN in BC for 12 years and received a Masters...
Daggitt, Mildred Emily (1929-2016)

Daggitt, Mildred Emily (1929-2016)

BIOGRAPHICAL FILES: Daggitt, Mildred Emily (1929-2016)   Back to all Biographical Files Mildred graduated from Calgary General Hospital in 1952. After brief times nursing at the Children’s Hospital in Calgary and Mt. Joseph’s Hospital in London Ontario, she moved to...
Dwyer, Rachel Margaret (1918- 2015)

Dwyer, Rachel Margaret (1918- 2015)

BIOGRAPHICAL FILES: Dwyer (nee Smith), Rachel Margaret (1918- 2015)   Back to all Biographical Files Rachel Dwyer graduated in nursing from St. Eugene’s Mission in Cranbrook in 1941.  She married three months after her graduation, but apart from a year in the...
Dean, Shirley (1934-1979)

Dean, Shirley (1934-1979)

BIOGRAPHICAL FILES: Dean, Shirley(1934-1979)   Back to all Biographical Files Following Shirley’s graduation from VGH in 1955, she began work as a staff nurse at Surrey Memorial Hospital.  She was promoted to Head Nurse and worked to develop standards of care and...