European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June the stars and stripes Page 17 modern living looking to colleges for future nurses Wybar Ziegler associated press when the final class graduated recently from the nursing school at Bostons Brigham and women the 39 students found it hard to accept that the demise of their Alma mater was consid ered part of the rebirth of administrators say programs such As the one offered at the 73yearold Peter Bent Brigham school of nursing Are they they Are looking to colleges for future registered once largely comprised of Handson training programs at nursing education has been moving to the classrooms of colleges and universities for the past 20 the experts parallels the increasing demands placed on As nursing As a whole becomes More of a students will recognize they need More said Diane director of government relations for the american association of colleges of in there were 833 Hospital based nursing pro also called diploma in the United according to the National league for by the number had dropped to the number of registered nurse training programs increased from to during the same with Colleg based programs granting bachelors degrees increasing from 187 to 421 and two year associate degree programs increasing from 130 to i think theres not a loss from the closing of Hospital programs because this is an evolutionary said Delight chairwoman of the nursing education committee of the american nurses experts also say that hospitals have grown increasing reluctant to continue subsidizing the nursing which usually lose some things that were costing Money had to and the school was costing said Shirley director of the Brigham and women since hospitals increasingly require nurses to hold bachelors nurses realize they need College training to get the better jobs and to Advance in the said an associate Dean at the University of Texas health science Center in san Egan said she believes her schools closing May be a loss for Brigham and a teaching Hospital of Harvard medical for one its a nursing recruitment and its also a resource for them if they need extra she plus the fact that having students in any Hospital stimulates the in Egan Many Colleg educated nurses May Lack some of the real life knowledge gained by graduates of the three year Hospital hospitals Are going to need people who Are technically they May come to the Point that they May have to demand nursing As they do with radiologists and some she Tillotson its a myth that diploma students have More hands on experience in she nursing students at the University of Texas spend 23 Erma Bombeck hours a week in hospitals during their Junior and senior and that holds True for most other College nursing Alverta vice president for nursing at Lehigh Valley Hospital Center in said performance studies on the 482 full time and 142 Par time nurses under her direction indicate baccalaureate nurses get top Marks when it comes to making being assertive and being patient diploma schools did a Good Job in their but their time is said who was trained in such a i struggled for nine years to get a bachelors degree while i was working and then go on to my said who now is working toward a i think it would be a disservice to advise a Young woman or Young Man to go into an apprentice program these some programs have been affiliating with colleges and universities to enable them to offer bachelors de Tillotson Pamela executive director of the National league for said Shes concerned about Hospital schools that do close in areas that Are dependent on those programs to provide a continued Supply of we dont have a nurse shortage in the aggregate she there Are certain areas where there is a nursing officials say shortages Are limited to some Rural areas or to specific Hospital such As those providing intensive that is a dramatic turnaround from just five years ago when the american Hospital association said the country needed nurses and that the shortage was Nancy coordinator of communications for the nurses said the recent recession brought More Fulland Par time nurses Back into the profession while reducing the number of people who sought health whose group is the accrediting body for All nursing said she believes the closing of Hospi Tal programs is a Good Way to improve the Quality of nursing care and the role of but traditions die at the Brigham and Wom ens Hannah Benton class of we older ones feel bedside nursing is important to a male student nurse at California state College checks elderly a photo if you want to talk no one plays the game any better than the nations inn ask anyone who travels they can be led Blind folded into a hotel open their eyes and in five seconds Tell you exactly How much the room the Basic no nonsense room will have a one Plas tic Glass wrapped in see through a bottle opener on the door and a bar of soap the size and thickness of a credit the room key will 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