Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1934.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1934
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1934. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    until September, 1936. The change will not affect the th ree-year course. It will mean abolishing the five-year course as it is now conducted, and the substitution of the new five-year program as outlined by the Director of Nursing at Simmons College. The name of the School at Simmons has been changed from 'School of Public Health Nursing” to School of Nursing,” public health becoming only one feature of the program. It will be the purpose of Simmons College in th is five-year curriculum to provide a liberal college education and professional preparation. Its affiliations will continue with the same schools as before, and perhaps some addi¬ tional ones. The entire program will be directed from the College. It would seem to be much sounder, edu¬ cationally, than the old plan. It has been endorsed by the Advisory Committee to the School of Nursing, and adopted by the members of the Corporation. Another event of this year has been the installation of the eight-hour day for special duty nurses. This has been adopted by about fifteen hospitals in and around Boston, and has been very helpful in the distribution of work among special duty nurses. This is not a School of Nursing problem, but employment is one which im¬ mediately confronts every student as soon as she is graduated. It is noticeable that, for the most part, nurses with the best preparation are the ones to secure positions most readily. Each of the students graduating in the five-year course in this class has already secured either a teaching position or a public health nursing position. Four of the three-year group have already secured public health nursing positions. These are the nurses who had the four months' affiliation in public health nursing. Many graduates do private duty nursing and