Fonds aarn-2211 - Jacqueline (Jackie) Brewe fonds

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Jacqueline (Jackie) Brewe fonds

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PAA aarn-2211

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6 audiotapes (cassettes): 3 masters and 3 copies. -- 12.5 cm textual material. -- 2 b&w photographs

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Major Jackie Brewe trained as a nurse at St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital School of Nursing, with affiliated training at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the Ontario Psychiatric Hospital, St. Thomas, and the Beck Memorial Sanitorium near London, Ontario. She graduated in 1960 and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1961 as a Flight Nurse. In 1976 she received her Bachelor of Nursing degree from Dalhousie University. Her continuing education included courses in nursing, aeromedical procedures, management, scientific and computer courses. As a Flight Nurse she trained with Aeromedevac (AIRMEDEVAC) with the RCAF and the USAF, 1965 and 1966, although she had flown on numerous missions from Greenwood CFB before she received this formal training. Operations included Pararescue, Search and Rescue and Mercy Missions. The RCAF took on this role on both coasts and in the North because no civilian operations existed. Major Brewe was involved in helicopter missions to fishing boats and lighthouses along the eastern coast, along with "routine" mercy missions throughout the Maritime Provinces. The territory covered by 103 Rescue Unit included the Maritimes and the eastern Northwest Territories and Arctic islands. After 1984, as Chief Nurse, Major Brewe filled several administrative and nursing positions with the RCAF from Winnipeg east; she retired in Ottawa in 1992. In post-retirement she was appointed to a nursing position with the Canada Pension Disability Arbitration [Board].

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The audiotapes were produced and the textual materials collected by Jocelyn Thibault-Prevost for her course, Nursing 550, University of Alberta. She donated them to the Archives of the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses at the end of her course, in 1994.

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Major Jackie Brewe was interviewed by Jocelyne Thibault-Prevost as an assignment for the University of Alberta course Nursing 550, Dr. Shirley Stinson, instructor. The interview took place in Ottawa on November 19, 1992 and comprises 3 audiotapes for a total of 4 hours, 6 minutes. Major Jackie Brewe describes her family and early life and her decision to join the RCAF after nursing school. She discussed the relationships and lines of command with medical staff, nursing staff, aircrew and ground-based officers. She describes the types of aircraft used for medical missions, the improvisations in equipment and facilities that had to be made, because no aircraft are specifically designated for Aeromedical Evacuation. She has been Staff Nurse in the Base Hospital at CFB Greenwood, Senior Flight Nurse with 413 Squadron (setting up the Aeromedevac service, including teaching, supervising and "check-riding" the nurses and medical assistants), and at some bases, School Nurse for the children of Base residents. In 1978 Major Brewe was posted to CFHE Lahr, West Germany, where she was Head Nurse of the Medical/ICU/Psychiatric Ward. A secondary duty was OIC for all Aeromedevac equipment. Her most memorable experiences are described; the most trying for Major Brewe were the emergency or mercy missions involving sick children. A summary of major Brewe's biography is included with the transcript of her interview. The textual materials include AIRMEDEVAC procedure manuals, samples of air logs, 2 photographs of staff and Major Brewe receiving her USAF wing, and copies of published articles and press clippings describing the work of AIRMEDEVAC.

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The audiotapes were prepared by Jocelyne Thibault-Prevost for her course work; the collected textual materials were given to her by Major Jackie Brewe to supplement her interview; the collection was donated to the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses by Ms Thibault-Prevost in 1994.

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Record No. 94.2<br><br>

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