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New Book: “The Lamp Was Heavy: Nova Scotia Nurses-in-Training in the 1950s”

Available for Purchase at the annual CAHN conference in Halifax! THE BOOK A couple of years ago I was reminiscing about my student nursing days in Yarmouth School of Nursing, a three-year diploma program when I wrote a small, unedited recounting of those difficult times. Suddenly at that time, I wanted to reach out to

New Vera Roberts Archival Research Guides Now Available

11SeptemberErin SpinneyBooks, NewsArchives, Research

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

Digital Book: MINISTERING ANGELS: A HISTORY OF NURSING FROM THE CRIMEA TO THE BLITZ

27MayErin SpinneyBooks

Dean Street Press are reissuing a seminal history of wartime nursing, from the Crimea to World War II, making the work available digitally for the first time. MINISTERING ANGELS: A HISTORY OF NURSING FROM THE CRIMEA TO THE BLITZ by Stella Bingham legantly traces the history of modern nursing, from the pioneering work done before

New Book: Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War

31JanuaryErin SpinneyBooks

Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War

New Book: Lyle Creelman: The Frontiers of Global Nursing

7FebruaryErin SpinneyBooks

by Susan Armstrong-Reid This intriguing scholarly biography examines the important contributions of Canada’s foremost international nurse, Lyle Creelman. Creelman parlayed her experience as a community health nurse in British Columbia into significant international appointments with two organizations undertaking massive responsibility for health tasks in the post-war period – first, as chief nurse of the British

Infirmières de colonie

6NovemberErin SpinneyBooks, News

CAHN/ACHN is excited to announce a new book by Nicole Rousseau and Johanne Daigle based on several interviews with nurses who worked in the regions of Gaspésie, Abitibi and the North Shore.

New Book: A cultural history of the nurse’s uniform

22JanuaryErin SpinneyBooks, General, News

A cultural history of the nurse’s uniform By Christina Bates This first and only in-depth analysis of the attire worn by the largest workforce in the health care system explores the role of the nurse’s uniform in creating nursing identity for over a hundred years. For ordering information and more information about the author: Cultural history of a nurse’s uniform

Canadian Award Winner at the American Association for the History of Nursing Conference

3NovemberErin SpinneyBooks, News

Canadian Award Winner at the American Association of the History of Nursing (AAHN): Congratulations to Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden for winning the 2012 Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing for their newly published book, Nursing before Nightingale 1850 -1899.

New Book: China Interrupted Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community

10OctoberErin SpinneyBooks, News

China Interrupted: Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community Sonya Grypma Book Description China Interrupted is the story of the richly interwoven lives of Canadian missionaries and their China-born children (mishkids), whose lives and mission were irreversibly altered by their internment as “enemy aliens” of Japan from 1941 to 1945. Over three hundred

New Book: A Portrait of Saskatchewan Nurses in Military Times

2OctoberErin SpinneyBooks, News

Saskatchewan nurses have a long history of enlisting and serving in the military. Working overseas in military hospitals and casualty clearing stations, these nurses played an integral role during military times. In 1917, lacking equality and the right to vote, nurses formed a professional licensing body while working tirelessly to provide safe and competent care

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