The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-03
State University at Iowa City is to
Have Course in Connection with
Its Work There for This
Training.
NEED BECOMES SERIOUS
Field Offers Scope for Every Talent
and Nurses Have Plenty OF Ac-
Invites to Choose
From.

An official bulletin from the Uni
versity of Iowa touching the needs of
public health nursing, recently is
sued, says:
The need for more public health
1 nurses with adequate preparation has
| come to be very serious. This need
is not only for staff nurses, but for
nurses to fill executive, teaching and
supervisory positions in state, city
and county work. The need is felt
not only in Iowa but throughout the
United States. Nurses with broad
general training, the power of leader
ship and the vision of an opportunity
of real service are in urgent demand.
The field of public health nursing
offers scope for every talent Nurses
striving toward the elimination of
preventable diseases Of body and
mind are working under every va.
| riety and condition of living-in iso-
+. lated parts Of Alaska, in the noun.
tain regions of the south, in crowded
tenant districts of our large cities
and in rich agricultural sections of
the middle west The demand for
| county nurses made by recent legis-
latures present to the ambitious
nurse limitless possibilities of devel.
opment.
A New School of Nursing.
The University Of Iowa announces
the establishment of school of pub
lie health nursing, to be opened Sep
TENDER 20, 1920, at the beginning of
the first semester Of the coming
academic year. The school will fur.
nish both theoretical instruction and
field work along all necessary lines,
and upon the completion Of courses
a certificate of proficiency will be
awarded.
The course at the outset will be
Of one year in duration. On the
theoretical side it will include in
struction in such subjects as psy-
chology, sociology, child welfare and
the technical study of public health
nursing. Field work will probably be
conducted for the most part in Cedar
Rapids. At present the theoretical
instruction is expected to cover the
first semester and to be completed
in residence at the university.
Students who desire to register IN
the school must present evidence OF
having completed four-year high
school course, or its equivalent; they |
must also present evidence of having |
completed regular course in a
nurses training school of approved
standards.
General Facilities.
The facilities of the University Of
Iowa are peculiarly adapted to the |
training of nurses for public health |
work. Through the college of medi-
cine ample classroom and clinical in
struction are provided both along
general lines and in the special fields
Of the physical and mental health of
children, hygiene and sanitation, con-
troll of preventable diseases and pub
lie health administration. The five
hospitals of the university provide
about 625 beds. The general hospital
furnishes an extensive out-clinic; the
children's hospital accommodates
large number Of orthopedic and pedi-
atric cases from the entire state;
the isolation hospital affords oppor-
tunity for the study of infectious dis
eases; the hospital annex includes
the extensive student health depart
present under construction) will &C
conditions are abnormal, whether or
hospitals for the insane, affording an ;
to hear lectures and
study incipient and borderline cases
through the out-patient and social
service departments.
Other departments of the ,univer- ]
sity contribute to the work Of the !
school in various ways. The extern
sion division provides an opportunity
for study of the statewide social Il
service The college of education s
will furnish its support along educa-
tional and psychological lines. In I
the college of liberal arts instruction i
will be offered in social science and
the principles and problems of mod Il
srn social work. The large infirmary a
IF the college of dentistry supplies an S
dental clinic; lectures on a
oral hygiene will be given by instruc- a
orc of this cO1lepp G