Mapping the Demise of the St. John Ambulance Home Nursing Program in Nova Scotia: 1950–1975
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Abstract
This paper maps the decline in Nova Scotia of a near-century old tradition of instruction in Home Nursing to members of the Nursing Divisions of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, and interested others, the majority women. The focus of this analysis is the period 1950-75. I argue that the gradual loss of program vitality is linked most directly to the changing and ultimately declining fortunes of the Brigade, These in turn are influenced by developments in the world beyond the organization, developments in health care in Canada and in the lives of Canadian women, who were the mainstay of membership. Through the Home Nursing program, a program to which the Canadian Nurses Association and Registered Nurses throughout Canada made a substantial contribution, the Brigade aimed to establish and maintain a reserve army of auxiliary nurses, for deployment when regular nursing services were over taxed. Successful in this endeavour during both world wars, the Brigade, a highly gendered and militarist organization, could not adapt to changes in both social attitude and social policy in postwar Canada. The demise of the Home Nursing program in Nova Scotia mirrors, if in a negative way, the emergence in Canada of a state-sponsored and hospital-focused health care system, and changing patterns in women's engagement in civic activities.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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