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Geertje Boschma
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Latest papers
What Got Us Here Won't Get Us There: Critical History in Radical Black Re-imaginations of Canadian Nursing Histories.
The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres · 2025 · senior author
Reflections on Black Nurses' Invisibility: Exploring the Contribution of Black Nurses to British Columbia (Canada), 1845-1910.
ANS. Advances in nursing science · 2024
The Contribution of Documentation Systems to How Nurses Understand Older People's Cognitive Function in Hospital.
ANS. Advances in nursing science · 2020
Latest funding
- $25,000
Psychiatric departments in general hospitals: deinstitutionalization or new institutions
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
- $58,695
Family, community and public responses to asylum care: rethinking institutional psychiatric mental health care in Alberta (1905 - 1975)
SSHRC · 2003 · Principal investigator
13 publications.
What Got Us Here Won't Get Us There: Critical History in Radical Black Re-imaginations of Canadian Nursing Histories.
Philbert JK, De Sousa I, Wytenbroek L, Boschma G
Reflections on Black Nurses' Invisibility: Exploring the Contribution of Black Nurses to British Columbia (Canada), 1845-1910.
De Sousa I, Wytenbroek L, Boschma G, Thorne S
The Contribution of Documentation Systems to How Nurses Understand Older People's Cognitive Function in Hospital.
Moody E, Phinney A, Boschma G, Baumbusch J
International nursing history: the International Council of Nurses history collective and beyond.
Boschma G
Community mental health nursing in Alberta, Canada: an oral history.
Boschma G
Beyond greener pastures: exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history.
Ronquillo C, Boschma G, Wong ST, Quiney L
Outcomes of dental hygiene baccalaureate degree education in Canada.
Kanji Z, Sunell S, Boschma G, Imai P, Craig BJ
The development of nurse practitioner preparation beyond the master's level: what is the debate about?
Brar K, Boschma G, McCuaig F
Bertha Harmer's 1922 textbook - The Principles and Practice of Nursing: clinical nursing from an historical perspective.
Boschma G, Davidson L, Bonifacio N
Elective caesarean section as a transformative technological process: players, power and context.
Hewer N, Boschma G, Hall WA
Psychiatric departments in general hospitals: deinstitutionalization or new institutions
Principal investigators: Boschma, Geertje
Keywords: history of psychiatry; 20th century; general hospital psychiatry; deinstitutinalization; mental health policy; mental illness; mental health; oral history; community mental health services
Family, community and public responses to asylum care: rethinking institutional psychiatric mental health care in Alberta (1905 - 1975)
Principal investigators: Boschma, Geertje
Keywords: history; 20th century; psychiatry; asylum; care; community mental health; family; perspectives on psychiatric care
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Jennifer Baumbusch and Alison Phinney: 9 shared papers
- Sally Thorne and Jennifer Baumbusch: 3 shared papers
- Geertje Boschma and Lydia Wytenbroek: 2 shared papers
- Sally Thorne and Geertje Boschma: 1 shared paper
- Sally Thorne and Lydia Wytenbroek: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Baumbusch and Elaine Moody: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Baumbusch and Geertje Boschma: 1 shared paper
- Alison Phinney and Elaine Moody: 1 shared paper
- Alison Phinney and Geertje Boschma: 1 shared paper
- Elaine Moody and Geertje Boschma: 1 shared paper
- Geertje Boschma and Fairleth McCuaig: 1 shared paper
- Geertje Boschma and Charlene Ronquillo: 1 shared paper
- MacIsaac School of Nursing
- Management Information Systems
- School of Nursing
- Nursing
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Lydia Wytenbroek
MacIsaac School of Nursing
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Charlene Ronquillo
Management Information Systems
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Fairleth McCuaig
MacIsaac School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Sally Thorne
MacIsaac School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Jennifer Baumbusch
Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Alison Phinney
MacIsaac School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Elaine Moody
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2020
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