Significant Nurses In Canada History

Question 1

Jeanne Mance

Answer 1

Canada’s first “lay nurse”, Came from France, Cared for the sick and establishes Hotel-Dieu Hospital in Montreal

Question 2

Margeurite d’Youville (grey nuns)

Answer 2

First visiting nurses of Canada

To finance their missions, made military garments, started a brewery & tobacco plant, operated a freight and cartage business. Established multiple hospitals in Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta

Question 3

Florence Nightingale

Answer 3

Came up with standardized based nursing training

Improved standard and image of nursing

Focused on clean environments

Question 4

Mary Agnes Snively

Answer 4

Opened first diploma nursing school in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Established: proper living conditions for students, nursing curriculum, criteria for clinical and educational time

First president of Canadian Nurses Association (CNA)