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Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing sous-fonds

Sous-fonds consists of applications for admission; student records; Director’s reports and correspondence; registers, day books and procedures manuals; materials relating to the Student Nurses’ Association and to ceremonies and special events connected with the School; education program files and photographs created and maintained by the TGH School of Nursing and subsequently maintained by the TTH Nursing Education and Research Department. Sous-fonds includes 13 series:

1.1.1 Applications for admission
1.1.2 Student records
1.1.3 Director’s reports
1.1.4 Director’s correspondence
1.1.5 Registers
1.1.6 Day books
1.1.7 Procedures manual
1.1.8 Student Nurses’ Association
1.1.9 Ceremonies and special events
1.1.10 Education program
1.1.11 Photographs
1.1.12 Student yearbooks
1.1.13 Permanent Record Books

Toronto General Hospital. School of Nursing

Applications for admission

Series consists primarily of application forms completed and submitted by candidates for admission to the Training School for Nurses at the TGH 1881-1910 (graduating classes of 1884-1913). Some files also contain materials subsequently added, usually letters from students or their agents requesting information contained in their files.

Education program

Series consists of various materials documenting the TGH School of Nursing’s administrative structure; curriculum, including course calendars and reports detailing major changes in the duration and content of the education program; procedures for evaluating students; reporting standards, policies and obligations to professional nurse registering bodies; and rules and regulations governing student life.

Files 1.1.10.16 to 1.1.10.19 contain copies of course calendars distributed by the School 1931-1972. Calendars for 1932/1933, 1933/1934, 1936/1937, 1937/1938, 1939/1940, 1940/1941, 1941/1942, 1942/1943, 1945/1946, 1946/1947, 1948/1949, 1969 and 1971 are missing. Dating of calendars produced for the 1950s (file 1.1.10.17) and 1960s (file 1.1.10.18) is uncertain.

Photographs

Series consists of photographs documenting various aspects of the administration and student life of the TGH School of Nursing. File 1.1.11.1 contains negatives of graduating class photographs 1888-1974: negatives for 1889, 1892 to 1899 are missing. File 1.1.11.9 contains portraits of TGH School of Nursing Superintendents Mary Agnes Snively, Jean I. Gunn, and Mary E. Macfarland.

Student yearbooks

Series consists of yearbooks created by graduating students of the TGH School of Nursing for 1923, 1925, 1931, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1970. Yearbooks contain text and photographs depicting graduating and continuing students, School faculty and staff, and student academic and social activities.

File 1.1.12.10 includes the yearbook belonging to Eugenia Wright with student autographs, as well as the announcement after-the-fact of the Commencement Exercises of the Forty-ninth Graduating Class of the School for Nurses for June 1931, and a poem entitled: <i>1931—T.G.H.—1981 / I’m Fine ……How About You?</i>

Permanent Record Books

Series consists of 8 binders of course curriculum and 1 record book, which were maintained by the Department of Nursing Education along with student transcripts. File 1.1.13.1 consists of an oversized record book containing the examination grades for all students from the class of 1961 until the class of 1970, organized by class and then by courses within each year. The examination records for the Hospital for Sick Children Medical Surgical Nursing Lectures and Hospital for Sick Children Obstetrical Nursing course, for the same time period, are also included in this volume. Courses for which curriculum is provided include Philosophy of Nursing, Nursing I-III, Paediatric Nursing, and Psychiatric Nursing. Some of the binders contain a copy of the final examination, and class lists including individual addresses and marks. A more extensive course and curriculum list is provided for years 1970-1974.

Student records

Series consists of the permanent student academic record files created and maintained by the TGH School of Nursing. Records contained in individual files vary according to the date of creation. Most files will include the student history card, which contains grades by term as well as by subject; hours of practical work by department; dates and duration of absenteeism along with a list of cause or diagnosis and whether the time was made up; date of birth; home address; religion; place of birth; nationality of parents; instructors’ assessments; and dates of admission to the School and completion of courses. Information about vacations or illnesses was collected for the purpose of calculating the number of days absent and ensuring that the time was made up. Some student history cards include an attached picture. Files may also contain certificates of preliminary education (high school academic records); reports including records for hours of nursing care from affiliated Hospitals (e.g. The Hospital for Sick Children or the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital), schools of nursing, and/ or education programs which students attended to receive specialized training and experience; copies of medical records; and photographs. Some files also contain materials subsequently added, including letters from students or their agents requesting letters of reference for employment or information contained in their files, the actual letters of reference, applications for employment in the Nursing Department of the TGH and employment records, newspaper clippings and general correspondence.

Series includes 37 sub-series:

1.1.2.1 Graduates 1911
1.1.2.2 Graduates 1912
1.1.2.3 Graduates 1913
1.1.2.4 Graduates 1914
1.1.2.5 Graduates 1915
1.1.2.6 Graduates 1916
1.1.2.7 Graduates 1917
1.1.2.8 Graduates 1918
1.1.2.9 Graduates 1919
1.1.2.10 Graduates 1920
1.1.2.11 Graduates 1921
1.1.2.12 Graduates 1922
1.1.2.13 Graduates 1923
1.1.2.14 Graduates 1924
1.1.2.15 Graduates 1925
1.1.2.16 Graduates 1926
1.1.2.17 Graduates 1927
1.1.2.18 Graduates 1928
1.1.2.19 Graduates 1929
1.1.2.20 Graduates 1930
1.1.2.21 Graduates 1931
1.1.2.22 Graduates 1932
1.1.2.23 Graduates 1933
1.1.2.24 Graduates 1934
1.1.2.25 Graduates 1935
1.1.2.26 Graduates 1936
1.1.2.27 Graduates 1937
1.1.2.28 Graduates 1938
1.1.2.29 Graduates 1939
1.1.2.30 Graduates 1940
1.1.2.31 Graduates 1941-1942
1.1.2.32 Graduates 1943-1944
1.1.2.33 Graduates 1945
1.1.2.34 Graduates 1946
1.1.2.35 Graduates 1947
1.1.2.36 Graduates 1948
1.1.2.37 Graduates 1949-1950

Sub-series 1.1.2.1 to 1.1.2.10 contain the records of all students in each graduating class 1911-1920. Sub-series 1.1.2.11 to 1.1.2.37 each contain a 10% sample of the records of students in post-1920 graduating classes.

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