Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Collection
Category
Education Artifacts
Archival Items
Nursing
Classification
Education
Archival
Nursing
Accession Number
001043031 a-k
Description
A bundle of 11 nursing exam question sheets from the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing (also called Training School for Nurses); some of the pages have notes scribbled on them.
A bundle of 11 nursing exam question sheets from the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing (also called Training School for Nurses); some of the pages have notes scribbled on them.
Number Of Parts
11
Part Names
a-k - papers - Size; Length 21.5 cm x Width 14.0 cm
Provenance
Belonged to Ethel Dowsley of the Class of 1925 who would have taken these exams in 1924; donated to the alumnae by Barbara Smith MacNaughton (class of 1954).
"KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL // Training School for Nurses" printed at the top of each exam; "MACNAUGHTON" hand-printed on the back; the subjects are, "anatomy" (a), "physiology" (b), "infectious diseases" (c), intermediate dietetics" (d), "surgical technique" (e), "intermediate surgery" (f), "practical nursing" (g), "materia medica" (h), "intermediate obstetrics (i), "medicine" (j), "junior pediatrics" (k)
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-2-2 Box 8
Condition Remarks
The pages are creased in the centre.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Website
Reference Comments
Marilyn Boston
Kingston Health Sciences Centre website, "KGH School of Nursing," (https://kingstonhsc.ca/kgh-school-nursing)
Research Facts
These exams are all marked intermediate.
The first official graduating class of the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing was in 1888; the school was created in order to educate nurses as the demand for them increased, as well as providing a labour force to the hospital. When the first nurses graduated, they were given a certificate of completion, twenty five dollars, and a nursing medal. Over the years, nurses were sometimes given pins and/or rings or other memorabilia to commemorate their graduation from the school.