- RBSC-ARC-1831-100-11-PH-1606
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- 24 Nov. 2004
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Pauline Siddons
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
Two glossy reprints of original photographs from 1931, two sizes of each image. Originals not present.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Pat Wadsworth [with group]
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
Exhibit panel recognizing contribution of Canadian Nurses
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nursing Graduation]
Mary Isabella MacDonald is second from left in top row.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
Under the supervision of a sister-tutor a nurse lays sterilized dressings on a trolley for use in the surgical ward. As part of her training she will watch the dressings being applied by the ward sister or senior nurse.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
A State-Enrolled Assistant Nurse attends a paralyzed patient in her home. The chair-like apparatus enables her to move the patient easily from the bed to the chair.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
A nurse and patient in a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Fresh air and rest is part of the treatment for this disease, for which special nursing care is needed.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
In a mental hospital a nurse watches a patient as the electrical impulses of the brain are recorded. This is a highly specialized branch of nursing requiring knowledge of modern scientific treatments.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
Using a model a sister-tutor explains the anatomy of the ear to student nurses in a country hospital in Britain. In the class are nurses from Sierra Leone and Trinidad.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
Royal Air Force nurses learn how to care for a patient using a portable iron lung. Nurses in the Service accompany sick personnel when they are flown home from overseas bases for special medical care.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
A Florence Nightingale Centenary. A nursing sister of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps stands beside a bust of Florence Nightingale. In June, 1860, Florence Nightingale founded the first school of nursing at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London. This set the pattern for the training of nurses throughout the world.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
In the operating theatre fully-trained nurses add their skill to that of the surgeon. The theatre sister is responsible for the sterilization of all equipment and assists the surgeon by passing instruments to him.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
H.R.H. Princess Margaret presents awards to St. John Ambulance Cadets. The British Royal family have always taken a keen interest in the nursing services. They frequently visit hospitals and training centres.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
A student nurse. Ahead of her are at least three years of study and training. Her choice of this profession, dedicated to the service of the sick, is one of which she can be proud.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
Nurses from Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Singapore, training in Britain, watch the dressing of a new-born baby
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
Hospital. nurses relax in their lounge during an off-duty period. Most nurses live in a nurses
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
Nursing sisters in their dining room at a Royal Naval Hospital. In peacetime they nurse men and women in the Service and their families, at home and overseas. In wartime they serve in hospital field ships, field hospitals and dressing stations.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
A district Nurse-Midwife with the baby she helped to deliver in the mother
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
Nurses from Ghana train at a British hospital for mental diseases. A full knowledge of the human body is as necessary for this branch of nursing as for others.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
Models and diagrams are used to enable nurses in training to understand the functions of the human body. Lessons are given by nurse-tutors who have had special training in teaching methods.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph - Nurses Trained in Britain]
A Health Visitor, employed by the Local Authority, visits a mother and her new-born baby. She is a fully qualified nurse and has had a specialized training in welfare work. Her advice is invaluable to mothers with domestic difficulties.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Nurse Evelyn Hood
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Nancy Viola Lee
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
Copy of original photograph printed on photopaper, from South Peace Historical Society Archives, Dawson Creek, BC.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Nan Kennedy [portrait]
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Nan Kennedy [portrait]
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Nan Kennedy [portrait]
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Nan Kennedy [gradation portrait]
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Nan Kennedy [gradation portrait]
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Nan Kennedy [baby in chair]
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Nan Kennedy [as child]
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Nan Kennedy [and unidentified nurse at graduation]
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - My early, as a new recruit, in the RCAMC in Wainwright, Alberta
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
[Photograph] - Muriel Uprichard
Photographs are duplicates.
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
Veiled monument at a memorial service for the Vancouver Medical Unit, 1939-1945, outside of St. Vincent
British Columbia History of Nursing Society
Monument unveiled at a memorial service for the Vancouver Medical Unit, 1939-1945 outside of St. Vincent
British Columbia History of Nursing Society