District Nursing story on BBC Woman's Hour

One of my favorite podcasts to listen to is the BBC's Woman's Hour. It is a news, culture and politics radio show that gives me a quick and balanced taste of the female/feminist view of important issues.

This morning, whilst doing my dishes before heading off to the library, I listened to Tuesday's programme which included a lovely story about the history of District Nursing, now termed Community Nursing in the UK. Many first-hand accounts from district nurses and people whose lives have been affected by them were included, along with a discussion of the future of the service in the UK.

The next story discussed two British women, Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm who provided front-line nursing and ambulance care in Belgium during the First World War.

To listen to these stories, I usually download the podcast directly to my iPod Touch using iTunes but you can also listen again to the programme for 7 days after the initial airing via the this link on the Woman's Hour website.

Gerstein News

One way to keep up to date with what we're up to in Gerstein is to subscribe to the Gerstein News, edited by Gerstein librarian Heather Cunningham.

In the latest issue there are several articles that may be of interest to you:

• Summaries of some of the workshops scheduled for graduate students and faculty this spring;
• a heads-up about the re-design of our website, currently in progress;
• and links to some of the biographies of Florence Nightingale in the U of T libraries system in honour of Nursing week (May 11-15 this year).

Many of the previous issues can also be viewed if you'd like to catch up...


Photo of Florence Nightingale's grave in East Wellow, Hampshire UK by Flickr user Mr. Ducke.

Health Professions Education - Global Best Practices in Simulation

The Centre for Research in Nursing Education (CRNE), at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, is excited to host the first international Health Professions Education - Global Best Practices in Simulation Conference (HPE 2009 Conference).
From May 21-23, 2009 at the Hart House, University of Toronto (Canada).

Contact: Adam Dubrowski adam.dubrowski@utoronto.ca

What's new?

Welcome!  We've created this site so that Nursing students and faculty at U of T (but other places are just as welcome) can hear what's new, what we're working on, and what we can do to help them to find and use information.

For the first few posts, I'll focus on different ways to find what's new: what new books have come in, how to find the newest research, other sites to check to keep up on what's going on.

First up: what new books have we gotten at U of T for Nurses?

Check out the slide show below for the process...