The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1952-08-09
U. Va. Hospital Employs
Negro Registered Nurses
TRAINS NEGRO GIRLS FOR
PRACTICAL. NURSING
BY RANDOLPH L. WHITE


employs Negro registered nurses. 1t also
has we'll underway training program for
Negro Practical Nurses
Negro graduate nurses of professional
schools of nursing have been employed on
the general nursing staff since last Sep
! TENDER These nurses and the schools from
which they graduate are Mesdames Hon
or Mobley, Good Samaritan Hospital Co.
lumbia, S. c.. Weda Gilmore, Freedmen,s
Hospital, Washington, D. c.; Annie M.
White, Lincoln Hospital, New York. N. Y.
,, and Misses Fannie S. Randolph, Lincoln
Hospital School of Nursing, Durham. n.
c., and Mary B. Henry, Dixie Hospital,
,, Hampton, Va
On June 80, fifteen young Negro wom-
/ en- = namely Misses Bette Actie, Nettie
Banks, Roberta Brown, Rose Brown. Elsie
Henderson, ECU a h johnson, Jenneve
Jones, Deloise Kenny, Bertha Mosby, Har-
rlet Phillips, Augusta Swingler, Margaret
Thomas, Jennie Undertake. laura Wat
kins and Betty Cox, all graduates of the
1862 class of the Jackson P. Burley High
School Of arlottesville--entered the Uni
versity of Virginia Hospital to begin eight
intensive months of study of experience as
practical nurse students. Upon the success
ful completion of this course these stu
dents will be eligible to take the Virginia
State oard Examination for Licensing of
Practlcal Nurses and, upon successful
completion of this examination the Young
nurse is entitled to use the initials "L.P.N."
! Uicensed Practical Nurse.)
OF the fifteen student2 ENTERING this
10
i to resign on July z, because of i'll health
After much planning with the State De-
partment OF Education, President Darden
of the University of Virginia and manv
doctors, nurses and citizens of the COM
munlty who were interested in. practical
nurse education, a training program was
finally begun last September, 1851. To he
eligible the student must have completed
three years of high school and to be ready
TO Degln her fourth and senior year in Sep
at the jackson p. Burley High School. AS
we'll las her academic courses necessary for
graduation, the student plans a vocational
course in nursing which carries two units
CT credit. The units in this nursing course
cover anatomy, nursing procedures, med
ical surgical pediatric and obstetrical
nursing as well as nutrition These courses
are taught at the high school by Mrs En-
ma b. Bryson, RN. During the school year
Mrs. Bryson brings her students to the hos
pital on Saturday mornings for nursing
practice.
When the student graduates from high
school and has successfully completed this
course she has about four weeks of vaca-
ton before she begins her eight months of
hospital experience. During the hospital
tour OF duty the student receives her room
and board free of charge as well as sti-
pend of $500 per month
The eight months of hospital experience
includes day, evening and night duty on
medical, surgical, obstetrical and pediatric
services as well as some time in the diet
kitchen in preparation of special diets
Mrs. Lucy Johnson, graduate profess
slonal nurse of Lincoln School of Nursing,
Durham, N. c., who worked with the Prac-
teal Nurse program lat Harper Hospital
Detroit, began her duties as instructor and
supervisor for these students at the Uni
versity of Virginia Hospital on August ,
| 1852. Mrs. Johnson plans to have at least
| two hours of classes per week in the hos
pital during the remainder of the course
Under the democratic leadership of Dr.
Richard J. Ackart, Md, director of the
University of Virginia Hospital for the
past seventeen months, number of new
ventures hes been undertaken aimet at i'm
Proving the hospital service. AS result,
many improvements have been realized,
the benefits Of which the Negro people
have increasingly shared notably from the
standpoint of improved health facilities
and employment conditions.