Aging Data Collection Site Opens in Victoria

By Debra Sheets, PhD, MSN, RN-BC, CNE The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is unfolding at 11 major universities and in communities across the country. The CLSA is a large, national, long-term study that will follow approximately 50,000 men and women...

JBI Systematic Review: Our First Attempt

By Anastasia A. Mallidou; Lynne Young, RN, PhD; Debra Sheets, PhD, MSN, RN-BC, CNE; Katherine Paul Joanna Briggs was the first appointed matron (1845-1866) of the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) in Adelaide, Australia. In 1996, an RAH committee established the Joanna...

A History of the School of Nursing

By Margaret Scaia, RN, BScN, MN, PhD and Lynne Young, RN, PhD The University of Victoria (UVic) School of Nursing (SON) opened in 1976 offering an on-campus program to registered nurses pursuing a baccalaureate degree in nursing after “stormy and uncertain beginnings”...