Year: 2005
Location: Edmonton
Profile: Dr. Linda Rose Long was a nurse and nurse educator who worked in hospitals in four provinces and taught in a university nursing program in a fifth province. Born in Kelliher, Saskatchewan, in 1918, she began training as a nurse in Yorkton Hospital School in 1938. The program, as she notes, was organized on military lines, but gave nurses in training extensive hospital experience. She nursed in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. After receiving her Bachelor of Nursing at McGill University with a specialization in education, she directed the nursing program at Saskatoon City Hospital for five years before earning a Masters degree in nursing at the University of Washington and later a PhD in Nursing from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She became a full-time advisor to schools of nursing in Saskatchewan and beyond, eventually becoming a professor of nursing at the University of Windsor. In retirement she was a consultant to the Department of Indian Affairs as it developed a nursing program for the Province of Saskatchewan. Dr. Long’s interview focuses on training of nurses and on the need for bedside caring not to be sacrificed to medical interventions and administration.
Keywords: Caring vs. efficiency; Department of Indian Affairs; Indigenous courses in Nursing programs; Medicare; Nursing education; PhD in nursing; Saskatoon City Hospital nursing program; University of Windsor; Yorkton Hospital School of Nursing.
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See also: United Nurses of Alberta; Women and Work in Alberta