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Betty Eggen fonds
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2 audiotape cassettes : 1 master, 1 copy, 2 sides recorded. -- 1 cm textual material
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Betty Eggen graduated from the University of Alberta Hospital School of Nursing in 1938. After a short period of service with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (1945-1946) she attended McGill University to obtain her Certificate in Public Health Nursing. Miss Eggen joined the Victorian Order of Nurses in Montreal in 1946; her duties included teaching and counseling. The VON encouraged its nurses to obtain university degrees by providing bursaries, so Miss Eggen completed her baccalaureate degree at McGill University in 1962. She returned to Calgary in 1968 as District Director of the VON, which introduced homecare for the elderly at this time. From 1970 to 1974 Miss Eggen was Field Nursing Officer with the Federal government's Indian Health Services, visiting Reserves from Hobbema near Edmonton to the southern border of Alberta. The Calgary Board of Health took over coordination and administration of public health care, and in 1974 Miss Eggen returned to Calgary to become Director of Nursing Services. She retired in 1982.
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Lynn French interviewed Betty Eggen for the AARN History of Nursing Professional Practice Group oral history project, and deposited the audiotape of that interview with the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses Archives and Museum in 1994.
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Miss Eggen was interviewed by Lynne French on January 20, 1994. She discussed her training as a nurse and her career as an Army nurse, and as a public health nurse for the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Calgary Board of Health and the Federal government's Indian Health Services. She notes advances and changes in training and practice and the development of homecare services. She compares the inter-agency cooperation among charities and agencies she observed in Montreal with the competitive activities of service groups in Calgary.
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The audiotape was deposited in the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses Archives and Museum by Lynne French in 1994.
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Record No. 94.53<br><br>
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- Eggen, Elizabeth (Subject)