Excerpt from Standard Curriculum for Schools of Nursing In sending out this curriculum, the Committee desires to emphasize afresh its hope that there will be no failure to understand its purpose. It is not offered as a model curriculum. There are many improvements which we would gladly introduce if we could see any possibility of putting them into effect at the present time. Moreover, the Committee is not urging the nu qualified adoption of this curriculum in training schools generally. It realizes that under the widely varying conditions existn in hospitals at present, a relative uniformity only is attainable or advisable. Schools laboring under the handicap of long hours and insufficient teaching facilities would be unable to do justice to the curriculum here outlined until more favorable conditions could be established. A few schools with superior advantages and good leader ship have already, in certain respects, gone beyond these standards and it is highly important that they should in no way relax their efforts, but should lead in working out something better than anything we have reached as yet. The purpose which the Committee has had in View, is to arrive at some general agreement as to a desirable and workable standard whose main features could be accepted by training schools of good standing throughout the country. In this way it is hoped that we may be able to gradually overcome the wide diversity of standards at present existing in schools of nursing, and supply a basis for appraising the value of widely different systems of nursing training. The work of the professional nurse is practically the same in all the states of the union, and it would seem to be perfectly evident that the training which is to guarantee a certain acceptable measure of competence, would need to follow somewhat similar lines, whether the nurse is trained in California or New York, and whether the training is given in a small ora large hospital. The main difficulty is the lack of a clear understanding of what the function of a modern nurse is, or what the purpose and Scope of her training should be The war is making us realize, what the public generally and the training schools have been slow to recognize, that nursing is in a very special sense a national service, and that the training of the nurse is a matter of vital concern not only to her hospital and to herself, but to the country at large. It is not enough that she should serve the needs of a single institution or of a limited group of people. She must be ready to serve the whole community and to meet conditions as_she finds them in many different kinds of communities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.