- Subseries
- 1991-1993
Subseries consists of educational projects and events records of the Community Health Nurses’ Group. Includes informational and source material, and a marketing, education and lobbying kit produced by the Group.
Subseries consists of educational projects and events records of the Community Health Nurses’ Group. Includes informational and source material, and a marketing, education and lobbying kit produced by the Group.
Executive Committee minutes and related records
Subseries consists of minutes of the Group’s Executive Committee meetings, as well as minutes of the Committee of Officers and Annual General meetings. Includes related correspondence and reports.
Executive Committee correspondence and general files
Subseries consists of correspondence and general files of the Community Health Nurses’ Group. Includes miscellaneous minutes, reports, notices, and financial records.
Subseries consists of lists, informational material, forms, and other records relating to membership in the Community Health Nurses’ Group and the work of its Membership Committee.
Subseries consists of Community Health Nurses’ Group newsletters, as well as correspondence and other records relating to the production of the newsletters.
Subseries consists of minutes, correspondence, reports and working papers of the Community Health Nurses’ Group’s Planning Committee, which was responsible for planning workshops, conferences, and related events.
Subseries consists of minutes, correspondence, pamphlets, and publicity kits relating to the Community Health Nurses’ Group’s Public Relations Committee.
Subseries consists of publications by Paulson concerning various aspects of nursing and nursing history. Most relate to her main interest in tuberculosis.
Subseries consists of articles, reports, correspondence and lectures on nursing. Many relate to tuberculosis. Most have not been published. Includes articles and reports regarding the affiliation course in tuberculosis nursing developed by Paulson and other members of the Vancouver Unit of the Division of Tuberculosis Control.
Reference Materials on Tuberculosis
Subseries consists of articles, reports, papers, speeches, and other material relating to Paulson's interest and involvement in tuberculosis nursing.
Subseries consists of articles, speeches, and other writings and textual records regarding general nursing topics.
Canadian Tuberculosis Association Conference
Subseries consists of booklets and articles related to Esther Paulson’s attendance at conferences of the Canadian Tuberculosis Association
Subseries consists of documents relating to Campbell Jackson's education in general, including high school, her nursing education, and various courses that she took. Documents include certificates, diplomas, and statements of grades.
University of British Columbia
Subseries consists of material relating to Campbell Jackson's education at, and activities while attending the University of British Columbia. Includes transcripts and other documents; a scrapbook containing correspondence, statements of marks, and memorabilia; photographs; and yearbooks.
Subseries consists of records relating to Campbell Jackson's education at, and activities while attending, the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing. Includes records concerning activities of classmates, Campbell Jackson's affiliation at Essondale, and her graduation. Record types include correspondence, a diploma, a photograph, and a commencement programme.
Other material relating to Campbell Jackson's education at VGH, including her application to and graduation from the School, may be found in the University of British Columbia subseries.
Subseries consists of records received by Campbell Jackson while obtaining a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan, including transcripts of marks and commencement and convocation programmes.
Subseries consists of photographs relating to Upshall’s nursing education from UBC/VGH.
Subseries consists of photographs and an album relating to Upshall's career as a provincial board of health nurse and as a public health service nurse in Richmond.
Subseries consists of photographs and an album containing photos relating to Upshall's career as a student health service administrator at UBC and an album presented to her on her retirement. The album has been retained. The front inside cover has multiple signatures and is inscribed: “Presented to Muriel Upshall on her retirement. May you have many happy memories of all the people pictured within these covers. Best wishes”
Subseries consists of a photographs of a trip to Maligne Lake, Jasper National Park, with a number of other photographs.
Subseries consists of minutes relating to the Pediatric Nurses’ Group. Arranged according to the PNG fiscal year, which began in May and ended the following June.
The Executive Committee reported to the RNABC. Meetings were held about once a month, with the addition of occasional special meetings. The executive consisted of four people: President, Treasurer, Membership Secretary, Recording Secretary, with others often attending. In later years meetings were often held by teleconferencing.
Subseries includes agendae, minutes, correspondence, and other documents.
The regional presiding officer reported to the executive committee on concerns brought forth by different regions. S/he was also responsible for a range of activities promoting standards of care in their region.
Subseries consists mainly of agenda and minutes, along with correspondence, President’s, secretary’s, finance and education committee reports, minutes and other documents.
BC was originally divided into six regions: Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Kamloops-Okanagan, Fraser Valley, East Kootenay and Prince George (Northern Interior). Later representatives attended from the West Kootenay and the Northwest. Representatives from each region submitted reports and met, generally twice year, with the RPO to discuss matters of common concern. These meetings were often scheduled to coincide with meetings of the Provincial Executive.
Subseries consists primarily of reports submitted by the different regions.
Vancouver is the only region whose records have been acquired by the archives. These include minutes of their regional meetings, with extensive administrative and operational records, including membership lists, financial information, announcements of events, and other records.
Subseries consists of notes concerning procedures for the biennial committee and minutes of preparatory meetings held.
Consists of photocopied photographs taken at these conferences. These photographs have been stored separately.
Subseries consists of programs for the biennial institutes and briefer brochures outlining the main activities of each conference.
Biennial Business Meeting Photographs
Subseries consists of fifteen photo albums relating to the 1st to the 13th and 15th Biennial and 4th and 10th National conferences hosted by B.C. Operating Room Nursing Group. Photographs have been removed from the albums and individually described except for those in a peel and stick album for the 1974 meeting.
Biennial Business Meeting Minutes and Reports
A business meeting was held in conjunction with each biennial institute to deal with issues affecting the membership.
Subseries includes unaudited statements from accountants and miscellaneous financial projections and accounts of revenue and expenditure.
The financial committee was responsible for establishing budgets and financial guidelines for conferences and other activities.
Subseries consists of reports, chart of accounts and other materials related to the financial activities managed by the Treasurer.
Subseries consists of ledgers relating to the financial activities of the group.
Subseries consists of News and Views newsletters.
Administrative and Committe Reports
Subseries consists of various reports and administrative materials related to the activities of the group.
Subseries consist of manuals for the activities of various representatives associated with the group.
Reports mainly concern competency levels of OR nurses, and operating room standards.
Nursing Education Council Committee: Minutes, Correspondence, Reports
This committee meets regularly to discuss nursing concerns including issues related to financial planning and the effect of budget constraints on programs and subsequent effects on nursing shortages; the establishment of expected competencies for beginning practitioners; and the need for post basic education.
Subseries consists of agenda and minutes for the meetings of the committee, with related reports and correspondence.
The four elected executive members from the Nursing Education Council formed this committee to facilitate planning.
Subseries consists of one folder of minutes and related documents.
College-wide Youth Training Option Committee
Subseries contain memorandum from committee.
Diploma Articulation Committee
The membership of the committee is comprised of representatives from nursing programs in colleges, universities and hospitals. This committee provided a forum for the exchange of information on common problems in different institutions and identified the needs and opportunities for ongoing development. It may advise the Academic Council regarding the equivalency of courses given at one institution or university as compared to courses given at another institution or university. Because of budget constraints and the similarity of the work of this committee to the Nursing Education Council, it appears to have been disbanded in about 1983.
Subseries consists of minutes, correspondence and reports.
Task Committee on Competency Based Curriculum
This committee was established to respond to the Kermacks Report. Competence was defined as a measurable/observable performance to or beyond an established criterion in one or all aspects of the nursing role for a given setting, client and client problem.
Subseries consists of one folder of minutes, correspondence and reports.
Task Committe on Mandatory Registration
This committee’s goal was to identify the educational impact of a proposal by the RNABC to invoke mandatory registration.
Subseries consists of one report and one letter.
Reporting to the Nursing Education Council, this committee was formed to encourage evaluation of the effectiveness with which nursing graduates of nursing programs meet the employers’ expectations.
Subseries consists of one folder of minutes, correspondence and reports.
Post Basic Education Committee
This committee was established to respond to the Kermacks Report, to identify the variables and potential costs to educational institutions both for development and for implementation of post basic programs.
Subseries consists of minutes, correspondence, and reports.
Entry to Practice Steering Committee
This committee was established to investigate the implications of introducing the requirement of a Baccalaureate degree for entry into practice.
Subseries consists of reports and correspondence.
Committee on Recruitment/Counseling
Subseries consists of one page of recommendations.
University of Victoria professor Dorothy Kergin was Chair of the Nursing Education Council for several years.
Subseries consists of correspondence on issues related to this position.
Lois Blais chaired the Archives Committee for several years.