WEEK 1: HISTORY OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
NURSING IN CANADA EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
When/What was the Origins of CHN? - (ANSWER)Pre-Contact: Indigenous
knowledge
17th Century New France (colonization, immigration, epidemics smallpox)
1617: Marie Rollet Hebert
1629: Augustinian Hospitallers of Dieppe
1641: Jeeanne Mance
1738: Marguerite d'Youville - Grey Nuns
When was the Nation-Building of CHN? - (ANSWER)18th/19th Century Canada
(poverty, immigration, epidemics cholera/typhoid)
1859: Florence Nightingale - Notes on Nursing
1867: British North American Act
1874: First School of Nursing in St. Catharines
When was Profession-Building of CHN? - (ANSWER)Early 20th Century Evolution
(immigration, TB as leading cause of death, 1930 Economic Depression, World
Wars, rise in dominance of hospitals/physicians)
1897: Victorian Order of Nursing formed (VON)
, 1901: First visiting nurse in Vancouver
1908: Canadian Association of Trained Nurses formed
1910: First school nurse in Hamilton/Toronto
1919: UBC Department of Nursing
1920: Universities establishing Post-graduate program's in Public Health Nursing
1932: Weir Report
When was the Socioecological Responsiveness era? - (ANSWER)Late 20th Century
Canada:
-Development of a National health system
-Shifts in public policy ideologies related to population health, promotion, equity,
and primary HC. HIV/AIDS, 1980s economic recession, reduction in gov funding
for HC
Early 21st Century Canada:
-SARS/H1N1 outbreaks, chronic disease prevention, global health equity
1617 Key contributor as a Nursing Leader? - (ANSWER)Marie Rollet Herbert:
-lay woman who worked with her husband and First Nations people to help with
small pox
Key Nursing Leader in 1629? - (ANSWER)Augustinian Hospitallers of Dieppe:
-religious orders that provided health care
NURSING IN CANADA EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
When/What was the Origins of CHN? - (ANSWER)Pre-Contact: Indigenous
knowledge
17th Century New France (colonization, immigration, epidemics smallpox)
1617: Marie Rollet Hebert
1629: Augustinian Hospitallers of Dieppe
1641: Jeeanne Mance
1738: Marguerite d'Youville - Grey Nuns
When was the Nation-Building of CHN? - (ANSWER)18th/19th Century Canada
(poverty, immigration, epidemics cholera/typhoid)
1859: Florence Nightingale - Notes on Nursing
1867: British North American Act
1874: First School of Nursing in St. Catharines
When was Profession-Building of CHN? - (ANSWER)Early 20th Century Evolution
(immigration, TB as leading cause of death, 1930 Economic Depression, World
Wars, rise in dominance of hospitals/physicians)
1897: Victorian Order of Nursing formed (VON)
, 1901: First visiting nurse in Vancouver
1908: Canadian Association of Trained Nurses formed
1910: First school nurse in Hamilton/Toronto
1919: UBC Department of Nursing
1920: Universities establishing Post-graduate program's in Public Health Nursing
1932: Weir Report
When was the Socioecological Responsiveness era? - (ANSWER)Late 20th Century
Canada:
-Development of a National health system
-Shifts in public policy ideologies related to population health, promotion, equity,
and primary HC. HIV/AIDS, 1980s economic recession, reduction in gov funding
for HC
Early 21st Century Canada:
-SARS/H1N1 outbreaks, chronic disease prevention, global health equity
1617 Key contributor as a Nursing Leader? - (ANSWER)Marie Rollet Herbert:
-lay woman who worked with her husband and First Nations people to help with
small pox
Key Nursing Leader in 1629? - (ANSWER)Augustinian Hospitallers of Dieppe:
-religious orders that provided health care
