In the spring of 2005, the
Canadian Museum of Civilization will open a major exhibition on
the history of nursing in Canada. The
Caring Profession will explore the history of
vocational and professional nursing in Canada, from the
establishment of New France to the present.
The Caring Profession will bring
together the two parallel but separate nursing traditions in
Canada: the religious, Catholic model and the secular
British-inspired model. The day-to-day practice of nursing, as
well as the struggle for recognition of the profession will be
represented through artifacts, photographs, interviews and
personal anecdotes.
A smaller version of the exhibition will go on a cross-Canada
tour until 2008, the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding
of the CNA. A complementary book is planned. The exhibition and
the book will cover the following themes.
- Lay Nursing in Pre-Confederation Canada
- Midwifery and Maternity Care
- The Trained Nurse in the Home
- French Canada and the First Catholic Hospitals
- The Nightingale Influence and the Rise of the Modern Hospital
- Nursing Practice in the Hospital
- Public Health Nursing
- Religious Nursing Across Canada
- Outpost Nursing
- Military Nursing
- Nursing Education
- Professionalization and Unionization
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