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A Life of Caring : 16 Newfoundland Nurses Tell Their Stories

2008

In 2005, using grant money from the Association of Registered Nurses of Newfoundland and Labrador, the process of transcribing the interviews began, and with additional funding from the J. R. Smallwood Foundation, the transcriptions were completed in 2006. [...] At the time, the world was going through the Depression and the Second World War. [...] The questions elicited information on issues facing these nurses: the treatment of illnesses, available resources, the role of the nurse in the health care system of their day and the inevitable challenges they encountered in their practice. [...] As we compared the stories of participants educated in and outside of Newfoundland, it became clear that nursing education and practice in Newfoundland were 11 not always as sophisticated as in other parts of the world, but their stories demonstrate the lengths that local agencies and nurses went to improve the care they provided to Newfoundlanders. [...] The students were the only ones on the wards to do 17 A Life of Caring anything because all the nurses were home with the flu.
biography history interviews nurses nursing oral history history, 20th century newfoundland and labrador

Authors

Jeanette Walsh, Marilyn Marsh, Marilyn Beaton

Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
610.7309718
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
n-cn-nf
ISBN
9781550812510 9781550812602
LCCN
RT6.N48
LCCN Item number
M37 2008eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (202 p.)
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CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00224467 (OCoLC)651914651 (CaOOCEL)431920
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Title proper/short title
16 Newfoundland nurses tell their stories Sixteen Newfoundland nurses tell their stories
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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