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

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SELENA N. GADIBER, R. N., B. A. Superintendent of nurses since 1933 Graduate of Lancaster General Hospital, Manheim, Pennsplvaniag Toronto Bible College, 1921-19233 Mis- sionary in the Argentine, South America, 1923-19293 Goshen College, 1929-1933. Trends In Nursing Education The purpose of nursing education, like all education, is to help individuals adjust themselves to the World i11 which they live. Everybody knows that those who have much to do with people need to be adjustable. Those who deal with sick people have special need of this quality. XVhen we consider not only the many forms of disease. but the different ages, races, and types of patients that nurses must care for, with all their social and physical probleinsg and then think of the relatives and friends of all these patients, and the doctor and other people associated in their care and the emergencies that constantly come into a day's work we must conclude that the conscientious nurse keenly feels her need-the ability to respond to all these stimuli. A realization for the need of a more adequate program of nursing education has prompted some of the most brilliant minds to devote themselves to the study of revising the Educators agree on two essential features of an iiiipuzve-rl program. practice of nursing procedures and an intelligent knowledge of many subjects. teach the art of living with people, knowing them intimately. understanding th of sharing their lives and having a knowledge of how and when to help from fixed habits which are the result of training tn the development With this new emphasis upon self development in the student messages from Miss Florence Nightingale, A good nurse must first be nursing school curriculum. it must include a skillful Second, it must not fail to eir strength and Weakness, First, theni. Einphasis being shifted of the whole individual. it is well to recall one of the old a good Woman. SELENA N. GAMHENR, R. N., B. A. 10

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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

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