Ebook Standard Curriculum for Schools of Nursing

At the request of the Council of the National League of Nursing Education, the Committee on Education undertook some little time ago the task of pre paring a curriculum which might serve as a guide to training schools struggling to establish good standards of nursing education, and which might also repte sent to the public and to those who wish to study our work, a fair idea of what, under our present system, we conceive to be an acceptable training for the profession 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 un qualified adoption of this curriculum in training schools generally. It realizes/ that under the widely varying conditions existing 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 amt 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.