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

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• 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...

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