Class 2: The Development of Nursing in Canada

Marie Rollet Hérbert

•1617

•Came at the request of Samuel D’ Champlain

•First laywoman to provide nursing care in new France

•Believed First Nations people did not need “saving” by the Europeans

Jeanne Mance

•1641

•Felt a calling to New France in Villie Maire (now Montreal) to build a hospital and was the only person there at the time with health care knowledge

•Opened a hospital in her home but later the Hotél-Dieu was built for her to run

Marguerite D’Youville

•1738

•Began charities including a brewery, military goods making, and transport company to fund health care for the poor and named the cause “The Grey Nuns”

•Took control over the General Hospital of Montréal

The Grey Nuns

•1738

•Embarked o long journeys across Canada to provide healthcare

•Would go to new settlements before steelers arrived to set up health care facilities

Florence Nightingale

•1854

•Lead healthcare in the Crimean war after death rates in hospitals were higher than the battle front. Brought the mortality rate from 42% to 2% through mainly good hygiene practices

•Her book, Notes in Nursing, focused on creating good environmental conditions to promote natural healing

Mary Angus Snively

•1847-1933

•Superintendent of nurses at Toronto General Hospital and elected the first Honorary Treasures for the ICN

•Pushed for and reformed the education of nurses including a proper curriculum, a three year program, and proper residencies for students.

Mary Seacole

•1854

•Her Jamaican-Scottish ancestry gave her a mix of traditional and western medicine practices

•Funded her own way to assist as a nurse in the crimean war

Harriet Tubman

•1802-1913

•Ran the underground railroad

•Worked as a nurse in the civil war

Mary Eliza Mahoney

•1802-1926

•First African-American licences nurse

Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture

•1890-1996

•First Indigenous Registered nurse and advocated for First Nations health care

•WWI vetern

Jean Goodwill

•1928-1997

•First Indigenous woman in the federal public service

•Co-founded the Indian Nurses of Canada

The Victorian Order of Nurses

•1898

•Set a standard for Canadian education in Nursing

•”Values altruism, compassion, &nursing knowledge”

The International Council of Nurses

•1899

•Founded by Bedford Fenwick and pushed for the improvement of health in society, professional welfare of nurses, as well as the overall welfare of woman

•Welfare of woman included their push for suffrage

Canadian Nurses Assosiation

•1924

•Using the tidal wave of the woman’s movement, they pushed for legislation regarding the regulation for the professionalism of nursing

•Lead to the legislation that introduced “Registered Nurses”

Article 22

Health care system recognizes aboriginal healing

Arrival 23

Increase in aboriginal health care workers

Article 24

Medical students are taught about aboriginal history and healing