The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
'C. U. \. OUTLINES
 NURSING PLANS
Post Graduate Course in Psychiatry Aided By
 U. s. Government

The Catholic University of Amer lea is offering two new programs in Nursing Education this fall,
 The Catholic University and st. EliEabeth's hospital, 5000 bed psy- chiatric hospital conducted by the federal government have united their facilities in offering Q post graduate program in psychiatric nursing in Q combined academic and advanced professional program leading to an advanced degree. The purpose of the program is to pre- pare head nurses, supervisors, teachers, and administrators for educational programs and nursing service in mental hospitals and public agencies.
 The United States Public Health service has allotted fifteen scholar ships which pay tuition fees and subsistence for three semesters of study. Graduate nurses ere eligible who have had psychiatric affilia- tions and experience. Preference will be given to those who have graduated from approved schools of nursing, and have completed two or more years of college.
 Wide Experience
 Miss Theresa Muller has been ape pointed assistant professor in the School of Nursing Education. Miss Muller is @ graduate of the Bloom ingdale Training School for Nurses and has had varied experience in mental institutions including psy- chiatric nursing in the United States Army Nurse Corp in France. Recently she has been at the Russel Sage college as supervisor and as- sistarlt professor fin phychology and psychiatric nursing. Miss Muller has an M. A. degree and further advanced graduate services from Teachers college, Columbia univer- sity.
 Through a grant from the D. 0. Society for Crippled Children, Miss Mary P. Billmeyer has been ap- pointed instructor in Nursing Edu- cation to include an educational program in orthopedic nursing in the District of Columbia. She is coming to the university from Michigan, where she has been chief Orthopedic Nursing Consultant of the Crippled Children's commission and has been teaching orthopedic nursing at the University of Michi- gan, Ann Arbor, and Wayne Uni- versity, Detroit. Miss Billmeyer is a graduate of De Paul University and has had special preparation in orthopedic nursing at Harvard Medicl school.
 Miss Janet Walker has been ap- pointed director of public health nursing to succeed Miss Lucia M. Sweeton. Miss Walker was an irl- structor in the physical and biolog- ical sciences at the St. Alexis School of Nursing. Cleveland, Ohio, before entering the field of public health nursing for which she studied at Western Reserve university. She has held appointments in the Cleveland Visiting Nurse society, Allegheny and Frederick County, Maryland, and had student experience in the Instructive Visiting Nurse society and the health department Of Washington, D. c.
 Miss Walker held fellowship ape pointment at Catholic university while doing her graduate work.
 Has M. S. Degree
 Miss Winfred Devlin has been appointed as instructor in nursing education and supervision of field experience in public health nursing. She is a graduate of St. Johns Hospital School of Nursing and of Western Reserve university, Cleve- land, and received her M. s. degree from Catholic univrsity. Miss Dev- lin has a broad background of ex- perience in both private and public health agencies. Recently she has been public health nursing super visor for the Missouri State Depart ment of Health.