Cabarrus Memorial Hospital School of Nursing - Cap and Pin Yearbook (Concord, NC)

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EXECUTIVES WBBmSgm -- ■ Miss Louise Harkey, R. N. Superintendent Paul E. Jones, M. D. Chief of Staff J. W. Warren Assistant Superintendent Miss Pauline Pruitt, R. N. Director of Nursing Service Miss Frances Farthing B. S. R. N. Ed. Director of School of Nursing 8

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HISTORY OF CABARRUS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL In 1935 Mrs. J. W. Cannon gave to Cabarrus County five and one-half acres of land on Highway 29A between Concord and Kannapolis on which to build a county hospital. The hospital was built through a bond issue and assistance from Duke Endowment of Charlotte. It opened in 1937 with 55 adult beds and 1 0bassinets. An addition was constructed in 1940, making the capacity 140 beds and 40 bassinets. February 1952 brought the open- ing of another new addition to the hospital. Cabarrus Memorial Hospital is now one of the most modern hospitals in North Carolina. The January 1951 Legislature of North Carolina made effective the change of the name Cabarrus County Hospital to Cabarrus Memorial Hospital. APPROVED AND ENDORSED BY American College of Surgeons American Medical Association American Hospital Association Carolinas -Virginia Hospital Association North Carolina State Medical Society North Carolina State Nurses Association A grade.A training school was opened in 1942. In 1947, the school of nursing became affiliated with Queens College of Charlotte, North Car- olina, and now offers an R. N. and two years of college credit toward a B. S. in nursing. Schools of nursing were recently classified in a National Survey made by a committee of representatives from every state. In this survey, schools were classified according to size and according to basic train- ing given to students. Schools with as many as 90 students and giving clinical experience in a hospital having an average census of 200 patients daily and meeting certain educational standards were in Group I. Duke University School of Nursing is the one school in North Carolina in this group. Schools with less than 90 students, and having basic clinical experience in a hospital with less than a 200 patient daily average and also meeting certain definite standards of instruction, specified standards as to qualifications of instructors and head nurses, care with health of students, adequate library facilities, and a good basic curriculum were in Group II. Of the forty-two nursing schools in North Carolina, Cabarrus Memorial Hospital School of Nursing was one of the eighteen falling in Group II. All other schools were not listed but if so, would have been in Group III. 7

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Those Who Guide Us to Shore FACULTY MISS FRANCES FARTHING B.S., R.N., Drugs and Solutions, Sociology; Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, North Carolina; Cornell University, New York Hospital; School of Nursing, New York, New York. PAUL R. KEARNS M.D., Anatomy and Physiology Bowman Gray School of Med- icine of Wake Forest College; Winston Salem, North Carolina. MISS RUTH PARKER R.N., Nursing Arts, History of Nursing; Charlotte Sanatorium, Charlotte, North Carolina; Woman's Hospital, New York, N. Y. RUSSELL FLOYD M.D., Surgery; Jefferson Med- ical College; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MISS JULIA MORGAN B.A., Chemistry; University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill, North Carolina. PAUL R. MAULDEN M.D., Medicine; New York University; Bellevue, New York, New York. MISS LOUISE HARKEY R.N., Professional Adjustments I and E; Watts Hospital School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina. J. O. WILLIAMS M.D., Microbiology, Pathology; Bowman Gray School of Med- icine of Wake Forest College; Winston Salem, North Carolina. MISS MADGE KING B.S., R.N., Medical and Sur- gical Nursing; Cabarrus Mem- orial Hospital School of Nurs- ing; University of Virginia; Charlottesville, Virginia. MATTHEW H. GRIMMETT M.D., Pediatrics; Duke Univer- sity School of Medicine; Dur- ham, North Carolina. MISS SALLY KIRK B.S., Diet Therapy; Saint Mary of the Woods; Terre Haute, Indiana;Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Lousiana. LANCE T. MONROE M.D., F.A.C.S,, Obstetrics and Gynecology; New York Univ- ersity; Bellevue, New York, New York. 9