Memories of the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing Memories of the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing
Margaret, Class of 1958: That’s in a room in Burton Hall, and we were the first full class to come and live in the new residence. Interviewer: Oh! […]
Gwen, Class of 1970: The only thing I think, um, I would add is that our residence life, I mean, our nursing school, our nursing education, nursing school, […]
Interviewer: […] if we could go back to the, the student nurses accommodation for a moment. Could you describe sort of what they were like, in the, [thunderclap] […]
Located across the street from Women’s College Hospital, this house was used as a student nurses’ residence from 1935-1953. The property would later be the site of Burton […]
Located near Women’s College Hospital, this house was used as the student nurses’ residence from 1918 to 1935.
As a tradition, each year the Alumnae Association held a dinner in honour of the nursing school’s graduating class.
Student nurses study in full uniform in the library on the second floor of their residence.
Students had to be respectful of each other in the dorm rooms. They sometimes worked opposing shifts on the wards.
Burton Hall was home to the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing and student residence from 1955 to 1975.
Nursing students attended scientific lectures at the University of Toronto. By the 1960s, the curriculum grew to include lectures about public health and social needs.
As part of their clinical training, student nurses cleaned medical instruments in the basement of the hospital’s outpatient clinic.
Class of 1954 Little Sister is capped by her Big Sister from the Class of 1953!
