Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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LEFT. Sister Mary Alma, S.M., R.N.M.A., Associate Director, Nurs- ing. RIGHT. Sister Mary Margarella, O.S.F., R.N.M.S., Associate Director, Nursing. NURSING RECENT YEARS have seen increasing wide- spread interest in the development of collegiate nursing education. This education has evolved in two distinct patterns. In one. the graduate nurse of a three year school returns to college either on a full or part time basis to complete her college work and earn a baccalaureate de- gree in nursing. In the other pattern, the high school graduate wishing to go to college and also to become a nurse may combine both objectives in a college program in nursing. Since 1932. Villanova College has shared in the responsibility of assisting graduate nurses to earn a baccalaureate degree by offering courses which would meet their specific needs as well as the academic and cultural subjects required for graduation. With the growing demand for col- legiate nursing education, however, the college made a more intensive effort to be of service by bringing to the faculty of the college in June. 1951. two qualified registered nurses, one from each of the two communities of sisterhoods who maintain the five Catholic hospitals with schools of nursing in metropolitan Philadelphia. After considerable study, the graduate nurse program was recognized in order that the nurses attending Villanova College could participate in a program which was fast becoming recognized as the best choice for nursing education. The degree offered was a bachelor of science in nurs- ing. In order to provide the graduate nurses with the same opporturfity extended to all other stu- dents at Villanova College, all classes for the nurses were brought to the college campus and offered in the late afternoon and early evening five days each week during the academic year. In the first year of operation, seventy-five stu- dents enrolled in the program. In the present year, one hundred and twenty students are at- tending courses on Villanova's campus in the nursing division. Further study into the needs of collegiate nursing education in the area served by Villanova College disclosed the fact that there was no Catholic college nursing program for high school graduates in this immediate area. This lack be- came Villanova's next target. In order to extend ... TO INSURE the aca- demic needs in culture. 21

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THE ELECTRICAL engineers check the re- volutions of machinery with the cathode ray oscilloscope. DURING AFTERNOONS the campus is overrun with the civil engineers taking their sights on everything that stands. LEFT: Mechanical Drawing introduces the prospective engineers to slide rules, tri- angles, and drawing boards while the ad- vanced electronics lab (left below) reveals the operative abilities of machinery. THE DEAN of Engineering,

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DIVISION the influence of Catholic collegiate nursing edu- cation in this area, the Division of Nursing of Villanova College applied for and received ap- proval to open a School of Nursing for high school graduates. In this program of study, a high school gradu- ate may come to Villanova and in four calendar years receive a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and be eligible to take the state board examination for licensing as a registered profes- sional nurse in the State of Pennsylvania. Villanova College School of Nursing plans to use the facilities of the five Caholic hospitals in perience portion of this program. The School of Nursing will accept its first class in September. 1953. . . . TO INSURE the scientific background necessary for the pro- fession.