Orientation Courses for Nurses

Abstract

T HE time is rapidly approaching when the current concept of what constitutes a nurse's education will be revised to meet the imperative needs which a changing culture is imposing upon the world at large. That curriculum and method in a training school for nurses is not fixed but is adaptive is a precept which has long been held valid by those directing the nurse's schooling. Already the first class training school in the United States has recognized the value of an academic and cultural background for its probationary students and so is continually raising its admission requirements until now the majority of hospitals are insisting upon a secondary school experience ranging from two to four years in an accredited high school. Furthermore, girls who have done college and university undergraduate work or who possess an academic degree are especially desired.1 This increasing emphasis upon background is splendid, but it may not be sufficient to meet the demands placed upon the nurse today. It is now possible for the training school, still keeping in touch with recent educational trends, to assist the