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2025 Nursing History Symposium Boschma, Geertje; Nixon, Suzanne; Davies, Megan; Scaia, Margaret; Mansbridge, Francis; Martin, Nan; Radom, Lenore; Petersen, Anita

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“The Nurses of Hornby Island, Post-career Pathways,” presented by Megan Davies, explores the work of a group of nurses pivotal to the establishment of an early home support society on BC’s Hornby Island in the late 1970s. The Hornby Island nurses – many of them retirees - served as volunteer members of the society’s board, transcending their professional practice by engaging with a new provincial “social health” program, sometimes as health activists representing elders from their remote rural community. Yet they remained definitively nurses. Themes of nursing leadership, nursing identity, nursing practices of organization and management and shared nursing knowledges and ways of seeing shaped their work, and also this study. Following the presentation, a panel discussed various contributions of the BC History of Nursing Society (BCHNS) towards preserving BC nursing history, including their website and the BCHNS Archival collection, currently held at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections.

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Title
2025 Nursing History Symposium
Alternate Title
BC Nursing History : Celebrating 35 years dedicated to preserving BC Nursing History, 1990-2025
Creator
Boschma, Geertje; Nixon, Suzanne; Davies, Megan; Scaia, Margaret; Mansbridge, Francis; Martin, Nan; Radom, Lenore; Petersen, Anita
Contributor
UBC School of Nursing Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry
Date Issued
2025-04-14
Description
“The Nurses of Hornby Island, Post-career Pathways,” presented by Megan Davies, explores the work of a group of nurses pivotal to the establishment of an early home support society on BC’s Hornby Island in the late 1970s. The Hornby Island nurses – many of them retirees - served as volunteer members of the society’s board, transcending their professional practice by engaging with a new provincial “social health” program, sometimes as health activists representing elders from their remote rural community. Yet they remained definitively nurses. Themes of nursing leadership, nursing identity, nursing practices of organization and management and shared nursing knowledges and ways of seeing shaped their work, and also this study. Following the presentation, a panel discussed various contributions of the BC History of Nursing Society (BCHNS) towards preserving BC nursing history, including their website and the BCHNS Archival collection, currently held at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections.
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Other
Type
Text; Moving Image
Language
eng
Date Available
2025-05-14
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0448891
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/91134
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Non UBC; Nursing, School of
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Other
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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