Watch-fires on the Mountains : : The life and writings of Ethel Johns / / Margaret M. Street.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package Pre-2010
• VerfasserIn: Street, Margaret M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [1973]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 1973
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)

The late Ethel Johns LL.B. was a pioneer nurse of the Canadian west whose influential leadership helped to shape the history of nursing in this country during a period of rapid social change in the first half of the twentieth century. This biography reveals her active involvement in nursing affairs at the local, national, and international levels. She was an astute observer and recorder of the times in which she lived, and her writings are a vivid commentary on the changing nursing scene and its relation to medical and other groups and the community at large. As editor of the Canadian Nurse for many years, Ethel Johns expressed strong convictions about areas of nursing education and service in which reforms were needed. Early in her career, she voiced concern about community and national problems related to health care and proposed potential solutions. Ethel Johns was aware that nursing history was in the making and took price in her role as one of the leaders whose responsibility it was to blaze the trail and light watch-fires on the mountains for the guidance of those who would follow. The life and writings of this courageous and sometimes controversial woman should interest not only members of the nursing profession but all in related medical arts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- PART ONE: 1879-1902 -- 1. Childhood -- 2. Life on the Reserve -- 3. Ethel Johns - Pupil Nurse -- PART TWO: 1902-1914 -- 4. Early Practice of Nursing -- 5. The Nurses' Alumnae Journal of the Winnipeg General Hospital -- 6. High Adventure -- 7. A Champion for Nurse Registration -- 8. The McKellar General Hospital -- PART THREE: 1914-1919 -- 9. Teachers College, Columbia University -- 10. The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg -- 11. The Manitoba Public Welfare Commission -- 12. An End and a Beginning -- PART FOUR: 1919-1925 -- 13. The Hospital and the University -- 14. The Department of Nursing of The University of British Columbia -- 15. A Time of Testing -- 16. Ethel Johns Reports -- PART FIVE: 1925-1932 -- 17. Service under the Rockefeller Foundation -- 18. New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association Project -- PART SIX: 1933-1944 -- 19. Ethel Johns, Editor, The Canadian Nurse -- 20. The Canadian Nurses' Association and the Journal -- 21. A Time for Expansion -- 22. Ethel Johns Off Duty -- 23. Full Flower -- PART SEVEN: 1944-1968 -- 24. New Horizons -- 25. The Johns Hopkins Project -- 26. Full Circle -- 27. Another Task for Ethel Johns -- 28. The Setting Sun -- Epilogue -- Chapter Notes -- Bibliography -- Addendum -- Index