Evening star., 1943-10-06
Letters to the Editor
Nurses School Alumnae Officer
Discusses Its Facilities and Standing

Nurses School Alumnae Officer
Discusses Its Facilities and Standing.
To the Editor of The Star:
I noted your editorial correction of the
statement in The Star that the nurses
school at Gallinger Hospital was not rec
ognized as an accredited nurses school,
1t Is of course, so recognized. I wish at
this time 10 explain other things about
the school that may not be generally
known.
The charter OF the Capital City School
Of Nursing, which is an educational
branch of Gallinger Municipal Hospital,
was granted in 1904. The school is rec
ognized by the District of Columbia
Board of Nurse Examiners, body ap-
pointed by Congress. and a photoStatlc
copy Of the certificate of registration
for 1943 may be obtained from the
nursing school office. Before the entry
Of the United States into the war the
National League Of Nursing Education
proposed a national survey to discrimi-
nate between schools whose curricula
as set by the league and those whose
programs do not. Rather than appeal to
the Committee on Appropriation for the
money necessary to have this survey
made the Alumnae AsSocia ton of the
Capital City School of Nursing set aside
half of the cost of the survey as eStl-
mated by the league. and the student
hn1y thrnIlUl, up1rt t,b,1t
and money-raiSing projects has ac
cumulated approximately one-third of
the balance to date. Comparatively few
schools, including some of the best in
the Nation, have been surveyed to date
because the committee has not had time
to cover all the territory.
Upon graduation from the Capital City
School of Nursing and the successful
passing of the examination for reglstra-
ton of graduate nurses given by the
District of Columbia Board of Nurse
Examiners, for which all Capital City
School of Nursing graduates are eligible,
an alumna of the school is eligible to
practice her profession not only in the
District of Columbia, but in any State
in the Union which does not require that
all registrations be made by eXamina-
ton. The school is one of the few in the
District of Columbia which is registered
with New York State The composite
average Of graduates from the Capital
City School of Nursing who took the
spring District board examinations was
the highest of all composite school aver
ages represented. The school is on the
list of nursing schools recommended to
prospective nursing students by the
American Nurses Association and the
League of Nursing Education
A school committee made up of prom
inent Washington citizens acts in an ad-
visory capacity to the administration on
school policies.
The educational facilities of the school
are superior to those of nursing schools
in general. 1t is one of the two schools
in the District of Columbia which does
not have to depend upon outside re-
sources, having completely equipped
anatomy and physiology laboratories and
laboratories for chemistry, microbiology,
nutrition and cookery; adequate lecture
and conference rooms, adequate teaching
tools and unit which Is a replica of
ward in the medical building at GAL
linger for the teaching of nursing arts.
The academic qualifications of the
faculty members and teaching practices
meet the approval Of the District OF
Columbia Board Of Nurse Examiners. A