Dr. Helen Vandenberg, University of Saskatchewan, College of Nursing, and team completed two projects funded through the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing (CAHN/ACHN) Vera Roberts research grant: Vandenberg, H., Boschma, G., McBain, L., Meijer Drees, L., McCulloch, M., & Gallagher-Cohoon, E. (2016). Guide to Archival Resources for Outpost Nursing and Remote Hospital History
The 2017 AAHN Conference will be held September 7-9 in Fairport, NY. Registration for the conference is now open. More information including the conference programme is available here. Keynote speaker information is available here. This year’s pre-conference “Trends in Publishing Nursing History: Sources and Strategies to Enhance Scholarly Productivity” will be held on September 7th. More
New article in Canadian Nurse: This year marks the 150th anniversary of Confederation, when the provinces of Canada (Ontario and Quebec), New Brunswick and Nova Scotia came together to form the Dominion of Canada. Of course, the land we now call Canada had a complex history and peoples long before 1867. Nursing in Canada also has
Congratulations to our 2017 Award Winners: Martha Groppo, Sylvane Filice, Michelle Spadoni, and Eliza Richardson! Vera Roberts Endowment Fund for Nursing Research Martha Groppo will receive $6000 for her project “Making the Periphery Central: Nursing, Rural Healthcare, and the Anglo World, 1887-1939.” Groppo looks at the interconnected networks of rural district nursing organizations and explores
Registration for the American Association for the History of Nursing is now open. The conference program and other information is available here.
If you happen to be a member of the American Association for the History of Nursing as well as CAHN there are two grants you can apply for. The deadline to submit applications is Saturday, April 1 by 11:59 PM MST. All submissions should be submitted electronically togrants@aahn.org. The H-15 Grant is awarded to faculty members or independent
Marketplace, Power, Prestige: The Healthcare Professions’ Struggle for Recognition Developments, Conflicts, and Areas of Tension among Healthcare Professions in the Twentieth Century Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, November 15 to 17, 2017 The differentiation of non-physician healthcare professions that occurred at the same time as the specialisation of medicine and the
American Association for the History of Nursing 34th Annual Nursing & Healthcare History Conference Rochester, New York September 7–10, 2017 The American Association for the History of Nursing and St. John Fisher College Wegmans School of Nursing are co-sponsoring the Association’s 34th annual conference to be held in Rochester, NY. The conference provides a forum for researchers interested in sharing