Annual report created by Dorothy Eden, Principal of the Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing for the hospital's Board of Directors. Also included in the file in statistical information about nursing exams and how Wellesley fairs versus Ontario as a whole.
File contains meeting minutes from a Hospital for Sick Children meeting in response of the Lynch Report recommending that Nursing schools be moved out of the Hospitals and phased into post-secondary education institutions. Sent as a memo from the Principal of Wellesley's School of Nursing, to Hospital administrators.
File contains information on the consolidation of Hospital Nursing Schools into Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology. The majority of the material relates to agreements between Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and The Wellesley Hospital regarding the use of hospital space for student nursing clinical experience. Included in the file are draft and final agreements between Ryerson's Board of Governors and The Wellesley Hospital's Board of Governors; correspondence, and draft agreements from other institutions. Also in the file is a copy of the Province of Ontario's guidelines for the transition of diploma nursing education into Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, and correspondence regarding the Nursing Task Force.
The Nursing Task Force at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute was organized in response to the January 1973 memorandum regarding the integration of Hospital School's of Nursing into Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology. The task force formed in July of 1973. Ryerson Vice President Administration George Korey was the chairman and was composted of representatives all institutions involved. It's purpose was to guide the integration of the nursing schools from The Wellesley Hospital, Sick Children's Hospital, and Women's College Hospital into Ryerson's nursing program. Three working committees were established: Committee on Curriculum and Clinical Facilities; Committee on Teacher-student Affairs and Internal Resources; and Administrative and Finance Committee all overseen by an executive committee. File contains a copy of the final report of the task force published in January of 1974, and one copy of appendix f - Nursing Task Force meeting minutes.
The committee, consisting of members from both the Wellesley Hospital and the Department of Nursing at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, studied a pilot project "The Buddy System" in The Wellesley Hospital's Medical-Surgical units. The project paired new graduates with a mentor. The project lasted 6 months.
Letter written to Louise Darche from Florence Nightingale. Louise Darche was the superintendent of The New York City Training School for Nurses from 1888-1898. The two met when Miss Darche travelled to London in 1893. In the letter Florence Nightingale references Henry Bonham Carter, her first cousin and Secretary of the Nightingale Fund. The photograph (RG 946.02.02.02) was also referenced in the letter and was sent by Mr. Bonham Carter to Miss Darche.
File contains two course descriptions - one for Behavioural Science and the other for Biological Science. Both are for the 1973-1974 school year. That was the first year that Wellesley amalgamated with Ryerson's School of Nursing.
File contains correspondence and meeting minutes from the Heads of Diploma Nursing programs committees, annual meeting, administrator's meetings, and executive committee meetings.
File contains correspondence and accompanying materials between the Ryerson Faculty Association, the Department of Nursing, the Dean of Community Services, and others regarding the redundancy of staff in the Department of Nursing.
File contains two pages listing nursing staff and the conferences and workshops they have attended. File also contains 2 workshop evaluations for the Evaluation of Measurement workshop held Friday September 3, 1976.
File contains correspondence, meeting minutes and other materials relating to the Advisory Committee for the post-diploma adult intensive care nursing program.
File contains materials relating to Nursing curriculum working parties. Included is a definition of the composition of the working parties, course objectives, handwritten notes, and other supporting materials.
File contains meeting minutes and accompanying materials for the Assistant Chairmen's , Assistant Chairmen's and Dean, and the Administrative meeting. The Assistant Chairmen's meetings stopped in July of 1976, with the Administrative meetings starting in August of 1976.
Black binder containing inventory sheets showing what supplies were ordered, on what date and which training site received them. This particular binder was for the Nursing Assitant Training facilities in Kingston.