Pulling Up Their Sleeves and Getting on with It: Providing Health Care in a Northern Remote Region (2012)
McBain, Leslie (Author)
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Volume: 29, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 309-328
Based on the written correspondence between nurses situated at northern outpost nursing stations and their supervisors in Regina, this paper illustrates the complexities of providing nursing care in Northern Saskatchewan between the mid-1940s and late 1950s. The paper begins with a discussion of the steps taken by governments to deal with what I refer to as a landscape of hardship in Northern Saskatchewan that precipitated creation of the nursing stations. However, government failure to provide adequate support for the nurses and nursing stations resulted in considerable hardship and frustration for the nurses to which, as their correspondence shows, they often objected. Cet article s'intéresse à la complexité liée à la prestation de soins infirmiers dans le Nord de la Saskatchewan au cours de l'après Deuxième Guerre mondiale jusqu'à la fin des années 1950. Notre étude, basée sur la correspondance entre des infirmières oeuvrant dans des dispensaires en régions éloignées et leurs superviseurs établis à Regina, porte sur les mesures prises par les gouvernements pour faire face, dans le Nord de la Saskatchewan, à ce que nous appelons, un paysage de difficultés . La création précipitée de dispensaires par le gouvernement, sans offrir un soutien adéquat aux infirmières en poste dans le Nord de la Saskatchewan, a entraîné chez les infirmières, opposées à ce type d'initiative, de nombreuses difficultés et son lot de frustrations.
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