LICENSE

Date1952

Dimensions16.5 x 21 cm

Object numberHF.2019.20.1 B

DescriptionPaper nursing license given to Miss Audrey Profitt by the Association of Nurses of Prince Edward island. The license is a small rectangular piece of paper in a black plastic case. The license is off white with black script. There is a crest of association in the upper center and an imprint of a seal in the bottom left.
Narrative

The first official nursing school in the province was at the Prince Edward Island Hospital in 1891, which was also among the first in Canada. Several schools of nursing opened throughout PEI over the next 100 years and in the 1960s the Association of Nurses of PEI began to push for a centralized system of training. The result was the Prince Edward Island School of Nursing which operated from 1969-1994 before becoming part of the University of Prince Edward Island's nursing sciences program.