La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (La Junta, CO)

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local Board Dt Management J. A. Heatwole .... ......... P resiclewtf E. E. Miller .,.,.,,,,,,, .,,., V ice Prcsiclcmf Clarence Ebersole, .... .... S ccrctary A. XV. Rhodes ........ .... 1 'rcczsurcr A. M. lleatliernian S. C. Yoder Allen H. Erb The Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities owns and controls all the property connected with the Mennonite Hospital and Sanatoriuin. Every phase of the hospital's work is under its control and it is responsible, legally, for any of its activities. O11e member of the executive connnittee of the general mis- sion board is represented on the local board of management. At the present time S. C. Yoder, of Goshen, Indiana, secretary of the general board, holds this menibersllip. The general hoard also appoints the sup- erintendent of the hospital a11d tl1e superintendent of nurses. The direct details of responsibility are delegated to the local board of management. The names of the inenihers of this hoard appear above. They are elected by the Missouri-Kansas conference in which dis- trict the hospital is located. 'l'hus, we see that the line of responsibility falls, first, on the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities: second, the local board which is responsible to the above: then follows the superintendent ol' the hospital to whom are respowsihle the heads of all the departments. These manage every phase of hospital activity. 8

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ALLEN H ERB Superintendent of the Mennonite Hospital and Sanatorium for the past twenty years The Religious Education Df The Nurse In 1933 Dr. James H. Leuba of Bryn Mawr College sent questionnaires to a representative group of the accredited scientists of America, listed in Dr. Cattell's standard authentic work, American Men of Science. His questionnaire consisted of two questions: one asked the scientist if he believed in a God to wx hom one may pray in the expectation of receiving an answerg the other asked the scientist if he believed in immortality, in continuation of the person after death in another world. The results of this survey of the Religious Beliefs of American Scientists were published in Harper's Magazine for August, 1934. In the following table the figures are percentages of the total number of those who answered. The Belief In God- The Belief In Immortality- Believers Disbelievers Doubters Believers Disbelievers Doubters Physicists .......... 38 .... 47 ..... 16 Physicists .......... 41 .... 32 ..... 28 Biologists ... 27 . .. 60 . . 13 Biologists ... 29 . .. 44 . . 27 Sociologists ........ 24 .... 67 ..... 9 Sociologists ........ 25 .... 48 .... .. 27 Psychologists ...... 10 .... 79 ..... 12 Psychologists ....... 9 .... 70 ..... 21 The HYDOVB FGDON WOUICT ilidiflilte that 'Science' in the modern meaning and use of that term is not .identified with revealed religion, and when it is considered that the questions submitted in the ques- tionnaire are the very last principles upon which men take a negative attitude, it is easy to calculate how far 'Science' is removed from the closer details of Christian faith. Therefore, it does not follow that be- cause we can say a man is scientific he is also religious. From the survey we may be compelled to come to the opposite conclusion. In nursing education the nurse is brought under the influence of science. Her Work is a profes- sion and she contacts professional men, Must it, therefore, follow that she accepts the majority opinion of scientific men in her attitude in religion? The Christian woman who is a prospective trainezl nurse can be encouraged to know that all true science is in final accord with revealed religion. Science 'falsely so called' has long contended against Christian faith. To maintain pure religion in the face of the influence of this specious reasoning is the purpose of the religious education of the nurse. This education is provided for in the study of the Scriptures. daily and periodic private and public worship, Christian activity, the recognition of the authority and fellowship of the church, and re- strictions against sinful or misleading practices and customs. ALLEN H. ERB 9