Beverley Hicks

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Beverley Hicks
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Educator, historian.

Beverley Hicks’ involvement in nursing began at the age of 16 as a nurse’s aide at Auckland, New Zealand. She came to Brandon in 1967 to take a course in psychiatric nursing, which led to a career in psychiatric nursing education. She was hired by Brandon University to teach in Canada’s first baccalaureate psychiatric nursing education program, from which she retired to complete a doctoral dissertation.

Her articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

One Hundred Years of Psychiatric Nursing in Manitoba
Prairie History, Number 11, Summer 2023

Page revised: 9 August 2023