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Author(s): K. Hardill
Publication Date: 2007
This article traces the historic antecedents of outreach nursing in Canada, going as far back as the Grey Nuns in what is now Quebec. It attempts to place modern-day street nursing in a historical context, which includes Nightingale, Wald, the early Victorian Order of Nurses, and the social reform movements of the early 20th century. The article critiques the involvement of nursing in less than virtuous aspects of social control with respect to i...
Author(s): C. Crowe, K. Hardill, TDRC
Publication Date: 1993
Demographic information, nurses advocating behalf of clients for equal access to health and social services. With no address or telephone number, homeless people are usually excluded from census and health surveys that use these routes for communicating with respondents. In Ontario, for example, public health agencies and the Ministry of Health have generally failed to gather information on the health status of homeless men and women. Of the data...