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“100 Years Of University Nursing Education”: The Significance Of A Baccalaureate Nursing Degree And Its Public Health Origins For Nursing Now, Susan M. Duncan, Margaret R. Scaia, Geertje Boschma
“100 Years Of University Nursing Education”: The Significance Of A Baccalaureate Nursing Degree And Its Public Health Origins For Nursing Now, Susan M. Duncan, Margaret R. Scaia, Geertje Boschma
Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière
Abstract
The 100-year milestone of university nursing education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2019 offers a pause for reflection and inquiry. History assists us to illuminate current issues and debates in light of past events. An examination of the legacy of Ethel Johns and others who held the vision of why nursing education should enter the university in 1919 sheds light on its historical significance, then and now. The first Director, Ethel Johns, referred to the establishment of the University of British Columbia Department of Nursing and the degree program it offered as “the experiment” (Johns, 1936). …