On All Frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing

Contents

Contents Foreword v Acknowledgements vii Introduction, Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, and Nicole Rousseau 1 Part One In the Home Chapter 1 Lay Nursing from the New France Era to the End of the Nineteenth Century (1608-1891), Judith Young and Nicole Rousseau 11 Chapter 2 Canadian Midwifery: Blending Traditional and Modern Practices, Cecilia Benoit and Dena Carroll 27 Chapter 3 The Trained Nurse: Private Duty and VON Home Nursing (Late 18oos to 1940s), Barbara Keddy and Dianne Dodd 43 Part Two In the Hospital Chapter 4 Healing the Body and Saving the Soul: Nursing Sisters and the First Catholic Hospitals in Quebec (1639-1880), Brigitte Violette 57 Chapter 5 The Nightingale Influence and the Rise of the Modern Hospital, Kathryn McPherson 73 Chapter 6 "Body Work," Medical Technology, and Hospital Nursing Practice, Cynthia Toman 89 Part Three In the Community Chapter 7 Public Health Nursing, Marion McKay 107 Part Four On the Frontier Chapter 8 Religious Nursing Orders of Canada: A Presence on All Western Frontiers, Pauline Paul 125 Chapter 9 Outpost Nursing in Canada, Dianne Dodd, Jayne Elliott, and Nicole Rousseau 139 Part Five On the Battlefield Chapter 10 Caregiving on the Front: The Experience of Canadian Military Nurses during World War I, Genevieve Allard 153 Chapter 11 "Ready, Aye Ready": Canadian Military Nurses as an Expandable and Expendable Workforce (1920-2000), Cynthia Toman 169 Part Six In the Classroom, in the Boardroom, and on the Picket Line Chapter 12 Enough but Not Too Much: Nursing Education in English Language Canada (1874-2000), Lynn Kirkwood 183 Chapter 13 Professionalism and Canadian Nursing, Diana Mansell and Dianne Dodd 197 Chapter 14 Unionization of Canadian Nursing, Sharon Richardson 213 Notes 225 Selected Readings 243 Contributors 247 / have the pearl buttonsfrom [my mother's] nurse's uniform, and my sister has the navy blue wool cloak with the red lining. These are holy relics, for our mother made of her nursing years something out of which she instructed us about life — her value system, her sense of female identity and personal integrity inextricably tied to her profession. Isabel Huggan, Belonging ...