University of Michigan Medical and Nursing School - Aequanimitas Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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-'lSCi2PEI. Those who are not familiar with all sides of nursing education niav feel that such an emphasis as I have here indicated is absurd and unnecessary. 'I-lowever, one should not lose sight of the fact that the student nurse enters the nursing school a girl and leaves it a woman: she enters with a multitude of fv1111'f11riv,r th aff, but few habits: she leaves the school with Il1CIII.X' f'i.1'UIl' 111117175 and a distinct philosophy of life: she enters extremely plastic and pliable. she leaves it distinctly less plastic and pliable. ' The held of general education has reached a point where the social education of the student is a matter of major importance. Educators have become deeply interested in the whole problem of character development. lf nursing schools are to continue to admit to its ranks eighteen or even seventeen-year-old girls and expect to train these girls in three years to meet all kinds of social dmands upon graduation. should not the nursing school follow in the footsteps of general educa- cation and set up such a program as will more perfectly socialize the students entrusted to their care? If the held of general education has seen the tremendous worth-whileness of such an emphasis in education, would it not be reasonable to suppose that such an emphasis might be of some value in the educating of the nurse? However, not until that time when hospital authorities and physicians alike will come to a realization that they are profoundly affecting the cheracter develop- ment of the student nurse either for better or for worse, not until that time when they full realize that the hospital is building women and citizens. as well as nurses. can we expect to begin to produce a more satisfactory type of nurse. Education for the nurse can not remain so narrowly vocational if the nurse of the future is to be an improvement over the nurse of today. The nurse's concommitant learning is at fault, not her primary learning alone. lt is the job of the nursing school to build into its students proper social habits. attitudes and ideals, as well as to teach them the mechanics of the profession of nursing. We who are associated with nursing schools must, with other educators. advance to that third position. lying between the camp of vocational education and the camp of cultural education, and I1'bc1'aIi:1' education. at the same time infusing it with social efficiency and purpose. The objectives of nursing education must become seven-fold if it is to justify itself: preparation for citizenship, not merely preparation for nursing- must be its goal.

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---- S C52 P E L -li The Year's Development of the School O THOSE GRADL'.XTllS and friends of the School who might be interested i11 learning a little about the year's developments in the School. I herein submit a brief summary of the most important or happv events of the vear. ' The vear had a most auspicious beginning in that the largest Freshmen class in the history of the School found its way to our doors last September. Both the September and February classes of this school year were nearly double in number over those admitted at the same season in previous years. The September class numbered some one hundred twenty students and the February class thirty. The second most outstanding event of the year was a transfer of the teaching of the basic sciences to the campus proper. The graduates of the School will rejoice to hear that our dearly beloved Dr. Huber is now teaching the course in .Xnatomy and Physiology. Dr. Howard li. Lewis, one of the best known physio- logical chemists in the country, is, with his assistants, giving the course in Chem- istry, and Dr. Malcolm Soule, Dr. Novys able assistant, is teaching the course in Bacteriology. The total number of hours given over to the basic sciences has been materially increased, to wit: Chemistry, lO5 hours: Anatomy and Physi- ology, 120 hours: Bacteriology, 45 hours. The l'lOl11'5 given over to the course in Nursing Principles and Practice has, likewise. been materially increased tsome 30 hours! and the entire emphasis in the teaching of the same is placed on ':ut11'd, rather than on Cftl.YXI'0l7IlI' instruction. Proper assistance has made it possible to establish an adequate follow-up system and it is felt that the bedside nursing in the hospital will be greatly improved thereby. A new cou1'se has been added to the curriculum this year, namely First Aid and Emergency Nursing. This course. which is given by a nurse. as well as physician instructor, was planned on what might be called the project method. lt has proven to be one of the most popular courses in the School. So popular indeed was it that. unheard-of state of affairs, older students asked if they might attend! The case study method of instruction is being used extensively and has proven to be most satisfactory in every way. .Xn instructing-supervisor is to be assigned to each clinical service as rapidly as the proper person can be found. :Xlready half of these important positions are filled and September, 1927, it is expected, will find us with our full quota. :X close correlation between practice and theory has been made possible through the proper repeating of certain lectures. For example, every student assigned to the surgical wards receives her surgical lectures while there: every student assigned to the medical wards receives her medical lectures while nursing medical patients. etc.