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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    we believe, and our place with the better schools in the country. Two imminent needs which should re¬ ceive immediate attention are, first, the improvement of our educational program to attract the type of ap¬ plicant we wish, and second, supplementing our student group with a permanent graduate staff. Within this period, studies by the Grading Committee and other publications about nursing, such as the Essen¬ tials of a Good School of Nursing,” have made coun¬ sellors in high schools and colleges better informed, and prospective applicants more intelligent in their selection of a school. This cannot help but have its effect on candidates for our own School. With competition keen in nearly every walk of life, young people are not ap¬ proaching a life work without forethought, and in selecting a professional school, that school which has the most to offer is having no dearth of applicants, as evidenced by those schools connected with colleges and universities. No thinking young woman is going to enter a school in which it is known that its students are the most overworked students in any profession, or a profession in which she has been led to believe there is so much overcrowding. Where once we were able to select only those whom we wished to accept from a large number of applicants, records show that the enrollment in our School has not, since 1928, reached the 140 mark, and during the year 1937, out of 1,001 letters of inquiry, from the comparatively small number of applications filed, we were able to select only forty-four acceptable candidates. Though the limitations of the clinical expe¬ rience available will always affect the enrollment in our school, and a place has been reserved to accommodate affiliating students, the significance of a constantly diminishing enrollment should not be overlooked. [ 37]