title: [Psychiatric nursing at the Hospital Saint-Jean-de-Dieu School of Nursing: striking a balance between the spiritual and the technical sides].
abstract: The art of taking care of the insane developed and solidified at the Hospital Saint-Jean-de-Dieu after a School of Nurses was created there in 1912. Founded by the Sisters of Providence, this new school participated in the transformation of the asylum into a regular hospital. The archives of the Sisters of Providence and the monthly magazine La garde-malade canadienne-française allow us to analyze the discourse of nursing leaders, which was based on the importance of professional training. Scientific discoveries and new technologies were at the heart of the care process at Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, where students were introduced to a technical, as well as a spiritual, education. This article first considers the marginal status of psychiatric nursing training within the larger nurses' professionalization movement. In a second step, it describes the socio-religious context between 1912 and 1962 within which the School of Nurses of the Hospital Saint-Jean-de-Dieu evolved.
authors.affiliation: Université d'Ottawa.
authors.forename: Marie-Claude
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Thifault
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000266:history*; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000266:history*