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Winnie Shandro fonds
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2 audiotape cassettes : 3 sides recorded. -- 1 cm textual material
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Winnie Shandro graduated from the Edmonton General Hospital School of Nursing in 1937. her first job was with the maternity caseroom at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton. In 1939 she moved to Mayo, Y.T., where she ran a one-room infirmary in the hotel operated by her husband offering the only emergency-district nurse service within 450 km. Mrs Shandro received her diploma in Public Health Nursing from the University of Alberta in 1956. From 1957 to 1963 she served as a public health nurse with Northern Health Services in Whitehorse, Y.T. She continued in public health nursing for the rest of her career, which lasted until she was over 80 years old. She administered clinics in Jasper Place and St Paul, Alberta, and became Director or the East Central health Unit, based in St Paul. After her "retirement" she offered her services at the Goodfish Lake Indian Reserve health clinic, and worked particularly with the Métis settlements and with homecare for seniors. Much of her career was spent caring for Native patients, in the Yukon and in northern Alberta.
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Irene Mazurenko interviewed Mrs Shandro for the oral history program of the AARN History of Nursing Professional Practive Group. The resulting audiotape cassette was deposited in the Archives of the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses upon its completion.
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Mrs Winnie Shandro describes her career in public health nursing, not in chronological order, but in the order that her lively memory decided. She describes the professional relationships between doctors and nurses and the bad behaviour of some doctors towards nurses. One of their first tasks at the East Central Health Unit was to restore discipline to both professions and to improve relations between the public health service and the local hospital. Her main focus is on the health services she offered to the Indian Reserves and the Métis settlements and to Native patients in the Yukon and in northern Alberta. She had good relations with, and respect for, the military medical crews in the Yukon and CFB Cold Lake, Alberta. Mrs Shandro's career covered over 50 years of nursing service.
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The audiotape cassette was produced as part of the oral history program of the AARN History of Nursing Processional Practice Group, and was deposited in the Archives and Museum of the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses in 1996.
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Record No. 96.15<br><br>
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- Shandro, Winnie (Subject)