Annual report : 1945 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York.
- Society for the Lying-In Hospital
- Date:
- 1945
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report : 1945 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.
14/44 page 12
![REPORT OF NURSING ACTIVITIES It is my privilege to submit a report of the activities of the Nursing Service of the Lying-In Hospital for 1945- The same conditions under which the nursing service func¬ tioned during the previous war years were present to an even greater degree this past year. That an acceptable standard of nursing service was maintained reflects great credit on the integrity and loyalty of the entire nursing personnel. The generous spirit in which they assumed the increased teaching and administrative responsibilities has been most gratifying. For the first time since the war the benefit of increased enroll¬ ment of students in the School of Nursing has been of advantage to the nursing service. With the increased dependence upon students it became necessary to divide the student body into two groups and institute a second series of lectures. This change, begun in February, provided a more equitable staffing. Assign¬ ment of students to the admitting unit was also of benefit to the Hospital as well as to the student. One hundred and fifty-nine students, an increase of 21 per cent over last year, completed the course in obstetrical and gyneco¬ logical nursing. One hundred and forty-four of this number were undergraduate students; eighty-two from Cornell Uni¬ versity—New York Hospital School of Nursing, thirty-four from the Skidmore College Department of Nursing, New York City, and twenty-eight from Moses Taylor School of Nursing in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Fifteen were graduate students from thirteen other schools throughout the country. Two of these students came from Canada; the remaining twelve represented different geographic areas in the United States. War demands upon nurses probably account for the 50 per cent decrease in the enrollment of graduate students. This is the lowest since the opening of the Clinic. Immediately following the President’s appeal for nurses, many of the graduates left for service in the armed forces. There has been a 25 per cent reduction in the graduate staff during the year. Since we were already below the minimum standard established by the War Manpower Commission, this represented a serious [12]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31711078_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
