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NEWFOUNDLAND OUTPORT NURSING AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION (NONIA) Outstanding among nursing organizations serving isolated communities across Canada, NONIA brought professional health care to Newfoundlands outports. Women reformers founded the organization in 1924 using the production and sale of handicrafts to finance their work. Besides training lay midwives and delivering babies, British-trained nurse- midwives pulled teeth and transported the sick along hazardous routes to distant hospitals. Although its nursing service was incorporated into Newfoundlands health system in 1934, NONIA remains a leader in the promotion of handicraft production.
Exemple exceptionnel de service infirmier en régions éloignées, la NONIA procura des soins aux populations portuaires de Terre-Neuve. Fondée par des réformatrices en 1924, elle innova en sauto finançant par la production dartisanat. Outre la formation des sages-femmes et lassistance aux accouchements, les activités de ces infirmières formées en Grande- Bretagne variaient de lextraction des dents au transport des malades vers les hôpitaux sur des routes risquées. Le service infirmier fut incorporé au régime de santé terre-neuvien en 1934, mais la NONIA demeure toujours un leader dans la promotion de la production artisanale. |
