Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Victorian Order of Nurses was established by Royal Charter in 1897 by Lady Aberdeen, wife of the then Governor-General to provide home care nursing to anyone who was in need of it. There were branches from Newfoundland to the Pacific Coast and each branch had a board of directors. The St. Catharines branch was founded in 1919 and the Lincoln County branch was organized in 1947. The V.O.N. was funded by public subscription, donations from industry, municipal grants and contributions from clubs and organizations. The service was offered to anyone in need at below cost, but nobody was ever refused because they were unable to pay. The services provided included: medical and surgical aid; dressings; compresses; care of convalescents, the chronically ill or the aging; care of maternity patients; pre-natal instruction and care of mother and baby. All V.O.N. nurses were graduates of accredited schools and were registered nurses. Most of the nurses had also taken a course in public health nursing. The V.O.N. has been instrumental in helping Canadians through the two World Wars and the Halifax Explosion. In 2005, the VON, was the largest single, national homecare organization. It is structured into a national service provider and local charities which are governed by volunteer Board members. The National Board is comprised of volunteers which are elected by the representatives of the local branches. On November 25, 2015, VON shut down all of their operations outside of Ontario and Nova Scotia due to a lack of funding.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.059 | 0.027 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".