Mercy School of Nursing - Mercilite Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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1 SQ? , w , ' c af .1e:asf.s, ,Y , We who have lived and worked among scholars and physicians who have spent ' V' sw-Miwfwwwf +g,m1.f - , f fvfd, 595' ' 41-H 1. f' their lives in learning, should ourselves be more receptive to ideas, more eager to learn. The instructors of psychology, sociology, theology, who, dedicated to -Q-A seeking knowledge and teaching what they have learned, exposed our youthful eyes and ears to fresh unexplored concepts and raised our thoughts above the pass- ing pleasures of adolescence to the last-

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capable of self-direction and is prepared to begin her position as a professional nurse. Ideally, the experience that is a nursing education should be a broadening and awakening one. It should provide us with opporttmities not only to perfect our nursing abilities, but also to progress spiritually, and intellectually and to be- come dynamic members of society. The responsibility to avail oneself of these opportunities lies within the stu- dent, and it is to the student that we di- rect this question: Have we, in this learning ex- perience in nursing been able to recognize and fulfill our goals, to build our worlds of dreams into new realities, so that each of us has become more nearly the per- son we have longed to be? 4-1 N

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ing questions of mind and soul. Anything which diverts one from his small circle of problems and selfish interests is good. If we have been stimu- lated enough so that we have looked be- yond ourselves into the bewildering pro- cess of life itself, then our years at Mercy have been well spent. Perhaps V24 t N education is nothing more than an a- wakening of one's mind, freeing it from the tiny confines of self-preoccupation. We learn through books, of course, but at the same time we must not devalue the experience of being alone with an idea - when we delve into the depths of our souls to grasp answers previously