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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Street, Margaret M., Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johns, Ethel.

Nursing--Canada--Biography.

Nursing.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biography

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; 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 Columbia15 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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Reprinted in 2018.

ISBN:

1-4875-8412-1

OCLC:

1129158681