Memories of the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing Memories of the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing
Graduates of the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1920 with hospital superintendent, Harriet Meiklejohn.
Agnes Chan, the first Chinese Canadian student to graduate from the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing, was awarded prizes for highest standing in theory and obstetrical nursing.
Student nurses study in full uniform in the library on the second floor of their residence.
The early probationers’ uniforms consisted of a blue and white long-sleeved pinstriped dress with a white apron and collar, worn with black stockings and shoes.
Students had to be respectful of each other in the dorm rooms. They sometimes worked opposing shifts on the wards.
Although nursing students trained long hours, they still had time for fun in the residence.
Nursing students stand around their first patient, Mrs. Chase, a teaching mannequin.
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.
Students in the Class of 1954 proudly display their nurses’ caps after the capping ceremony.
Class of 1954 Little Sister is capped by her Big Sister from the Class of 1953!
Nursing students from the Class of 1940 proudly displaying their probationary uniforms on their first day of school.
