NSE 11A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Lillian Wald, Henry Street Settlement, Grey Nuns
14 Dec 2018
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From the grey nuns to the streets: a critical history of outreach nursing in canada by hardill. Street nursing: nursing outreach to homeless people nursing the poor, impoverished, vulnerable people. Grey nuns in the early 1700s, madepublich health visits to the sick poor in what is now called quebec the sisters of charity founded by marguerite d"youville. In 1737: she was widowed at age 28 and began taking impoverished people into her home- she and her colleagues were ridiculed and called ivre ( grey) 1750: order grew and her colleagues renovated a hospital and opened it as a home for all for the destitute, they would go there bc the grey nuns never refused. Forst first half of the century, grey nuns spread around canada"s west and north, founding most of the first hospitals and schools in manitoba, saskatchewan and alberta.
