Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1937.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Date:
1937
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1937. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Forty-four students entered. Forty-two have been graduated. Fourteen have withdrawn. Though there is an increase in the number of gradu¬ ates employed for bedside care, the total is greater by only one half-time person. In order that patient care should not be to so great an extent dependent upon undergraduate students, such staffing is practicable and should be understood as a desirable policy rather than an imminent necessity. The affiliation with the School of Nursing at the Chil¬ dren’s Hospital has continued, and thirty-two students have been accepted for six months’ experience in adult nursing. The last group of students in the five-year combined program with Simmons College completed their hospital experience in September, 1937, and returned to Sim¬ mons College for their final year at the College. They are eight in number. One of them has majored in Teach¬ ing and one in Head Nursing, and both are receiving their field experience in the Brigham Hospital. Two graduate nurses from Simmons College have been ac¬ cepted for field experience in Head Nursing. This past summer, freshman students from the Simmons College School of Nursing again had their first six weeks of instruction and practice in our Hospital. On Janu¬ ary 2 5, 1937, seven junior students from this same school came to us as affiliating students for one year’s experi¬ ence in adult medical and surgical nursing. The twenty-third annual graduation exercises were held November 19, 1937, in the Assembly Hall at Sim¬ mons College. Mr. Amory, President of the Corpora¬ tion, presided. Forty-five nurses were presented for diplomas. The Dr. John P. Reynolds gold medal for general efficiency was awarded to Ada Dorothy Brag- don. The John P. Reynolds scholarship for highest [35]