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B.C. History of Nursing Society fonds Series
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Photographs

Series consists of photographs related to UBC school of nursing. Series is arranged into the following subseries:

  1. UBC Historic Photographs
  2. Faculty Photographs
  3. Student Photographs
  4. PhD Program
  5. Miscellaneous Photographs

Publications

Series consists of published materials by both the School of Nursing and other organizations.

Series is arranged in the following subseries.

  1. School of Nursing Publications
  2. Other Publications

Dolls and Costumes

Series consists of records dating from 1985 to 2011. Series is arranged into two subseries: Dolls and Costumes. Materials related to Sheila Zerr's interests in both dolls and costumes relating to nursing history. Booklets, photographs and information related to numerous displays and presentations prepared by Zerr are in the Dolls subseries. Other materials include photographs and booklets of costumes for adults often modelled by Sheila Zerr and others at nursing events, and mounted as exhibits.

Reports

Series consists of reaction to the Kermacks Report and various other reports and documents related to the development of nursing in BC.

Posters and Clippings

Series consists of two posters idealizing the nursing profession and one newspaper clipping. “Overseas Uniform of Red Cross and Canteen Maid.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, dated September 1, 1918.

Personal photographs and documents

Series consists of photographs and documents related to Alice Wright’s personal life, including a copy of a studio photograph taken of her circa 1920; a photograph of her taken at her 100th birthday party, a 1927 handwritten copy of her birth certificate, and her passport for 1953-1963.

Career related photographs, documents and artifacts

Series consists of photographs, documents and artifacts related to Alice Wright’s nursing education and career, including certificates and pins awarded to Wright from various educational institutions and associations, a photograph of Wright as a student at Vancouver General Hospital circa 1917, and various photographs related to Wright’s involvement with the International Council of Nurses in the 1950s and 1960s.

Public Health Nursing

Series consists of records relating to Campbell Jackson's work as a Public Health Nurse in the interior of British Columbia (Kamloops-Lilooet-Ashcroft area), and her involvement in the British Columbia Public Health Service, including correspondence and documents relating to her employment by the Provincial Government, as well as a photograph and memorabilia relating to her involvement in the BC Public Health Service.

Relationship with the CHNAC

Series consists of correspondence, newsletters, reports, lists, organizational and other records relating to the Community Health Nurses’ Group’s participation in the Canadian Health Nurses’ Association of Canada.

Photographs

Series consists of a set of photographs depicting community health nursing activities, as well as negatives and contact sheets of these and related photographs.

Photographs

Textual records include two programs for the 1994 Member Recognition Awards with supporting documentation. Photographs are of Lois Blais along with mostly unidentified people at formal and social occasions. Most are on the occasion of her receiving the 1994 Recognition Award and a tea. Others are taken on her November 28, 1996 graduation from a Masters in Nursing program at UBC.

Correspondence

Series consists of professional and personal correspondence relating to student positions, her Provincial Board of Health position in Nanaimo, Richmond Public Health, research articles, various projects, professional memberships, student reports, and recommended standards and practices for nursing.

Photographs

Series consists of photographs, particularly of McIlrath’s military years, mostly gathered from other sources. Information accompanies most of these photographs, which also have written numbers on their reverse. A typed list of information on photographs from the Canadian National Archives is included, but most of these do not have corresponding prints.

Photograph Album

Series consists of an album of photographs of people attending a reception for Bernadet Ratsoy on January 31, 1990. Most are identified. Photographs have been left in album as they could not be removed without damage.

Formation of the B.C. History of Nursing Professional Practice Group

Series consists of textual records preparatory to and shortly after the formation of the B.C. History of Nursing Professional Practice Group in 1991. Includes original constitution and bylaws, meetings of interim History of Nursing Group meetings (1990), correspondence, early newsletters, forms and membership lists, as well as job descriptions for Executive Committee and committee chair positions. It also includes a file of information on the change of this organization into a Society in 2008.

Events, programs and display records

Series consists of graphic, audio and textual material regarding events, programs and displays mounted by the BCHNPPG. It includes promotional flyers and pamphlets for events and programs, photographs of display material, and audio recordings of lectures presented to the Group. Also includes textual material relating to the International History of Nursing Conference June 12-15, 1997, which was sponsored by the Group.

[Original Collections]

Series consists of 3 m of textual records and additional graphic and audiovisual materials. The textual records include a comprehensive collection of UBC student cards from 1921 to 1994, many of which include detailed information about individual nurses. Records from the Kootenay Lake Hospital, the Kelowna General Hospital and Prince Rupert General Hospital date back to the early years of this past century. Pamphlets dating from 1887 documents aspects of nursing history. Theses by Margaret Campbell, Beverly Du Gas and Helen Niskala are among seventeen theses, dissertations and papers included. Miscellaneous photographs without sufficient provenance are included in this classification. Audiovisual materials on audio and video cassette, CD and DVDs are arranged as subseries.

Writings

Series consists of various publications authored by Esther Paulson on various aspects of nursing and nursing history. Series is divided into two subseries: Publications by Paulson and Other writings by Paulson.

Nursing Division of the Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia

The Alumni Association was formed to develop and foster a feeling of fellowship among alumni, encourage and support educational opportunities, to facilitate closer liaison between the faculty and students, and provide financial and other support for School of Nursing faculty and students.

Series consists of records documenting the activities of the Alumni Association.

Model for Nursing

Work began in the late 1960s on a theoretical framework that would provide a basis for specific standards against which the quality of nursing care could be evaluated. Under the guidance of Muriel Uprichard, with the committee chaired by Margaret Campbell, the UBC Model for Nursing ”a mental image of nursing’s unique mission in the real world of nursing”, resulted. Implemented in the early 1970s, it was conceived to provide a “framework for viewing nursing’s unique function”.

Series consists of Margaret Campbell’s 1987 report on the nursing model and minutes of the committee to create, implement and monitor the program.

Committee records

Series consists of minutes, correspondence, and other records relating to the activities of the Education, Executive, Membership, Newsletter, Planning & Workshop, and Public Relations committees of the Community Health Nurses’ Group.

World Health Organization (W.H.O)

Series consists of records relating to Campbell Jackson's work as a nurse and Nurse Team Leader for the World Health Organization in Tehran, Iran. Records include appointment and payment records; congratulatory correspondence from the Provincial Government of British Columbia; photographs of Campbell Jackson during this period; correspondence to her family, 1954 to 1956, detailing her work and other daily activities and experiences in Tehran; correspondence from a friend also working in Iran; and other documents received in Iran.

Personal Papers

Series consists of birth certificate, copies of genealogical records, correspondence from family members, a family history, memorial records from the funeral services of various Upshall family members, news clippings and photograph of Muriel Upshall’s mother.

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