Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Month by month, semester by semester comes a host of new and wonderful changes from Simmons School of Nursing - constant improvements to co- ordinate the collegiate and clinical phases of the 5- year program - improvements to make the program more enjoyable - to develop the student as an individual and as a professional nurse, who through her awareness of professional and personal respon- sibilities, will be able to make real contributions to the needs of our changing society. Simmons develops this social consciousness and sound professional attitudes and competencies in nursing by providing a broad scientific, academic, and professional foundation. After the first year, the student follows a specific plan of work preparing for her professional objective. The first semester of the second year includes such courses as General Chemistry, a Liberal Arts elective, perhaps English 37 or a History course, two of the more popular nursing electives 5 and Introduction to Nursing, a required course in which a background of information on the scope of nursing is presented to amplify and broaden the student's preconception of the field she has chosen. Formal class sessions are kept to a minimum and the majority of time is spent in hospital orientation in studying the community from which the hospital draws its patients, in discussions with those individuals whose disciplines make them part of the health team, and in acquiring some basic nursing skills in an actual clinical situation. The second semester follows with the continuation of General Chemistry and Introduction of Nursing, Bacteriology, Food Preparation, and a study of Nutri- tion, with a consequent gain of insight into the types of nutrition problems with which a nurse may come in contact in her professional work, and an academic elective. After a short vacation, second semester is followed by an eight-week summer session conducted at the Massachusetts General Hospital, which continues the orientation process. All the students live in Arnold Hall where - after all is said and done - a very enjoyable and extremely valuable summer is spent, working, studying, and playing. Enthusiastically, these same students return to Simmons for a third year to pursue Physics, Philoso- phy, Sociology and the Control of Communicable Disease, and later on, Physiology, Child Development, two nursing education courses: Principles and Meth- ods of Teaching and Professional Adjustments, another elective, and Introduction to Pathology. These latter courses are taken at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Three years quickly fly by. The student leaves the college building and becomes an integral part of the Massachusetts General Hospital where she receives two full years of clinical instruction and prac- tice geared to the maturity and capacity of the col- lege student. In general, the Hrst year of hospital work includes experience in medical nursing, surgical nursing, out-patient nursing, operating-room tech- nique, dietetics, neurological and orthopedic nursing, and allied theoretical instruction. The second year offers experience with related instruction in pediatrics at the Children's Medical Center, obstetrics at Boston Lying-In Hospital, psychiatry at McLean Hospital, in surgical specialties and in public health. In order to complete this extensive program, a prospective nurse must take, at all times, a long- range view, never losing sight of her goal. Perhaps many more would fall by the wayside were it not for the understanding guidance, encouragement, and intense interest in each one of us, not only as a potential Simmons nurse but also as a distinct and growing personality, that we receive - for this, we are deeply grateful! rector, Anesthetician, Community Nurse School of ursing

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