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B.C. History of Nursing Society fonds Subseries
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Education Committee

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.

Membership Committee

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.

Planning / Workshop Committee

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.

Other writings by Paulson

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.

General Education Records

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.

Vancouver General Hospital

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.

University of Michigan

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.

Student Health Service

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”

Minutes

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.

Executive

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.

Regional Presiding Officer

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.

Regional Reports

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 Region

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.

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.

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.

Executive Committee

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.

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.

Curriculum Committee

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.

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