Evening star., 1938-08-28

given in the local hospitals IN three
years, with work requirements added
to the course.
Miss Bertha Nienburg. assistant dl-
rector of the United States Womens
Bureau, under whose leadership the
campaign for the school will be con-
Quoted, pointed out last week that the
demand for women highly trained in
the nursing profession is increasing
In the District of Columbia
This is true" Miss Nienburg de-
clared. mot only in connection with
private duty and public health nurs-
ing but in administrative. teaching
and scientific health positions. A uni
versity school of nursing does not
seem beyond the present reach of the
District A report on nursing educa-
ton facilities made by the National
League of Nursing Education for the
Graduate Nurses Association of the
District states:
Washington has the potential re-
sources in its hospitals, its public
health agencies and its universities
for centralizing nursing education in
university nursing school. Located
within the city is every type of IA
cility for working out thoroughly
= broad and comprehensive program of
nursing education"
The Committee on the Economic
Status of Women of the A. A. U. w.,
which will direct the campaign. in
cludes Miss Nienburg as chairman,
Miss Adele Stamp. dean OF women
at the University of Maryland. as vice
chairman, and Mrs. S. r. Newell, a
former social worker. as secretary.
Other members will be Mrs. Joshua
Evans. jr., trustee of George Washing
ton University; Miss Gertrude Boil
ing. head of the Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society; Miss NJ Cordelia Co.
wan. executive secretary of the D. C.
Nurses Examining Board: DR.. P. S.
Crittenden, professor of pharmochol-
ogy of George Washington University;
DR.. Mary Maver of the National Health
Institute: DR.. Henrietta Burton of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs; Mrs.
James L. Fieser, former Red Cross
worker and the wife of the vice chair
man of the Red Cross: Mrs Edwin
G.. Nourse, Mrs. Horace Torbert, Mrs.
Leslie Whitten. Miss Gwladys Jones
and Miss Grace Sandhouse of the
Bureau of Plant Industry.
Impetus to the movement for the
school was given by the action of
the Washington branch of the A. A.
U. w. last spring, when it voted to
make the promotion of such school,
one of its major activities during the
fall season." Miss Nienburg said.
Conferences were held with officers
of the Graduate Nurses Association
and other health experts in search
for ways and means for bettering the
nursing service for the citizens of
the District. 1t was found that local
schools of nursing had not prepared
girls with wider scientific, social and
technical background now being de-
manded
Unlike doctors. dentists and other
professional students, a student of
nursing has been expected to do much
of the work Of the hospitals while she
was training for her profession. This
apprenticeship system has been slow
IN giving way to an organized educa-
ton for nursing primarily because the
student nurse was of economic value
to the hospital. On the other hand,
the system has probably cost the
patient dearly in lack of adequate
service
Through the efforts of the Graduate
Nurses Association of the District of
Columbia more time has been allotted
to the study of science of nursing in
number of local hospitals in the
last few years.
According to Dr. Henry c. Macatee
Of Garfield Hospital, this has increased
the cost of nurse training to the hos
pital until it is becoming too great
an expense for the hospitals to carry.
The members of the A. A. U. W.
recognize that local hospitals should
not be expected to bear the cost of
nursing education out of funds COL
lected for the care of the sick They
believe that the cost of nursing edu-
cation is in the same category as the
cost Of other education and should
come from funds given especially for
educational purposes.
The Washington branch believes
that local university should not only
provide the necessary classes in the
basic sciences and art and be respon-
sible for directing the professional
education in the hospital. but that
it should provide budget for class
work and for administration and super
vision of the practice work in the
hospital
AT present Catholic University is
the only university which has attemp-
ted to solve some of the city's needs
for better trained health workers In
its Graduate School of Nursing, of
which Sister NJ. Olivia is dean, it is
training women who are graduate
nurses in the administration and Or
ganization of schools of nursing. and
IN teaching nursing and kindred SCI
ences in public health nursing
The committee is interested in i'm
proving health services not only be-
cause it will bring better nursing serv-
ice to all District families. but be-
.1huse it will insure TO an ever increas-
ing number of nurses more regular
employment and more adequate in
come
X n X X
Miss Olive Hurlburt. chairman Of
the National Womans Party conven-
ton, who has spent the past six weeks
at Alva Belmont House, making pre-
ltminary plans. has returned to De-
troit, where the convention will be
held October to 9. In Detroit she
will make the final arrangements for
the convention with Mrs. Josephine
Morris Keal, Michigan convention
chairman.
\ X
Mrs. Ernest H. Daniel, president of
the D. c. Federation Of Women's
Clubs will leave Tuesday for a weeks
stay in Chicago.
X
Mrs Walter D. BroOkings president