Love, Jean C., nee Hawkins - Side One
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Love, Jean C., nee Hawkins - Side One
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Love, Jean C., nee Hawkins - Side One
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Side One
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File consists of a recording of Jean Love. Topics of the conversation include early ambition to nurse; choice of Queen's directed and promoted by parents. Queen's Nursing Science programme c. 1946, connection with Kingston General Hospital. Teenage obliviousness to WWI, later regret for unawareness of others' suffering. Muir House residence, 1946. Classes with ex-service engineering students, comparative interest of their 'what I did last summer' talks. Post-graduation work opportunities. Lack of burning social, political issues on campus; post-war ambition to settle down. Alcohol prohibition on campus. Tame initiation rites. Coldness of old-guard Kingston community towards university, better relations following establishment of Alcan, Dupont. Flexible design of Queen's nursing programme; student separation from university during training years. Levana Society. Divided nursing programme (1946) compared with present integrated programme. Jenny Weir. Work with VON, Kingston City Health Dept. Function of Public Health Nurses in schools then and now; rewarding experience identifying eye problems in schoolchildren. Part-time nursing career while raising children; clinical teaching, home visits with students; value of long working acquaintance with Kingston. Nursing hierarchy: current revision of roles and qualifications. Feelings of subject as faculty wife. Career development: Canada Health Survey in Kingston; cancer services in Frontenac County (Cancer Society, U. of T.), especially interesting and encouraging contact with cancer patients of long standing. Comparative contributions of public health nursing and hospital nursing. Comparison of student generations: today's youth more self-confident, articulate, experienced, but basically similar. Dislike of student drinking on street, foul language; observation that she has never disliked a student individually. Support of women's adventures into male dominated fields.//Expectation that with birth control, Zero Population Growth movement, more women will choose careers other than child-bearing. Status of nurses: attitude of professionals, public. Expanding VON home care programme, necessitated by government cutbacks in hospital funding. Subject's warm appreciation of Kingston, nursing profession, Queen's University.
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F1988-S1-SS1-f50
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Interviewee (ive): Love, Jean C.
Interviewer (ivr): Irving, Katie
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North America
Canada
Ontario
County of Frontenac
Kingston
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1 audio cassette (50 min.) : 1 7/8 ips, 2 audio reels : mylar-polyester
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Queen's University Archives
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Love, Jean C., nee Hawkins - Side One
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