FRANCES ORGAIN, Associate Dean of the College of Nursing and Associate Professor of Nursing. DORIS ELIZABETH BAKER, Assistant Director of Nursing Services, Robert W. COPE, Nursing Supervisor, James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. Graduated, Indiana Methodist Hospital School of Nursing (Indianapolis, Ind.), 1926;. Mrs.) VIRGINIA FOLKERTH, Assistant Director of Health Services.
MARY ELIZABETH HECKARD, Associate Director of Nursing Service, James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, and Instructor. MARY ELIZABETH WHITEHURST, Assistant Supervisor of Nursing, Robert W. BARBARA JUNE \VooLDRIDGE, Assistant Director of Nursing Service, James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. SCHOOL OF NURSING 11 JOHN ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, radiologist at the University Hospitals, consulting radiologist in the Student Health Service and chairman and professor of radiology.
WALTER DONALD CLOSE, Medical Director of University Hospitals, Director of Postgraduate Medical Education, and Associate Professor of Medicine. FRANCES CLARK EKsTAM, Director of the Physical Therapy Program, and Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy. GEORGE JosEPH GARCEAU, Riley Hospital Orthopedist, and Chairman and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery.
JOHN IGNATIUS NURNBERGER, Director of the Psychiatric Research Institute and Chair and Professor of Psychiatry.
Indiana University
School of Nursing
SCHOOL OF NURSING 15 of the faculties of the School of Medicine, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Training. The School's name was officially changed from the Training School for Nurses to the School of Nursing in 1956. Students now enroll for thirty credits in the University's Junior Division, Bloomington campus, as do all students enrolled at the University for a bachelor's degree. .
In the early spring of the first year, all nursing students are invited to the School of Nursing to familiarize themselves with the facilities and be fitted for the student nurse uniform. Immediately prior to the first semester of the second year, all students come to the School of Nursing for additional orientation. A full physical examination, including chest x-ray, is given as part of the school entry requirements.
A Student Health Service is maintained under the supervision of the Medical Director of Student Health Services. The School of Nursing accepts married students and allows students to marry at any time, provided they maintain the school's standards. One organization of which all students are members is the Student-Faculty Government of the School of Nursing.
A faculty member from the School of Nursing is available one full day per week for counseling, guidance, and program interpretation purposes. Medical Center: The Director of Counseling and Student Activities is responsible for the counseling program. Although the School of Nursing Alumnae Nurses Association was first organized in 1917, it operated as an independent organization until 1954, when it became a constituent organization of the University Alumni Association, with representation on the Executive Council.
Graduates of the School of Nursing may become members of the Alumni Association of Indiana University and the Nurses' Alumnae Association by paying annual dues ($6). Junior or senior students are eligible for financial aid under the United States Army Nurse Corps student program. For further information on financial assistance, write to: Dean of the School of Nursing, 1232 West Michigan, Indianapolis 7, Indiana.
If unusual circumstances intervene within the stated time, special arrangements must be made by the student with the approval of the instructor awarding the incomplete degree and the School of Nursing Office. Honors are awarded at graduation to students in the top 10 percent of the graduating class who earn a cumulative average of 2.5 or higher.
Basic Professional Curriculum
SCHOOL OF NURSING 23 Nurses in Indiana, taught by the Indiana State Board of Nurses' Registration and Nursing Education. Room and meals in the Halls of Residence on the Bloomington campus range from $303.50 to $435 per semester. On the Medical Center campus, nursing students live in Ball Residence unless they are married or live in Marion County and have been approved through the School of Nursing office to live at home.
Room charges in Ball Residence are $85 per semester, including a $5 social fee, and $42.50 per summer session, including a $2.50 social fee, either payable in full at the beginning of each semester or monthly on the first day of each month. Students purchase the School of Nursing uniform through the School_ The uniform worn in the hospitals requires white oxfords (two pairs are recommended, one of which has conductive soles), white stockings and the school cap. For field experience in public health nursing and field trips requiring a uniform, students need a minimum of one navy blue uniform, one pair of black or brown walking shoes, plain hose, and a plain navy blue or black hat.
A black or navy blue coat (navy blue is preferred but not required) is worn with the uniform as required and is required for field experience in public health nursing. A blue zip-up undercoat, available in standard sizes and lengths, can be purchased for $29.95 through the School of Nursing. Books cost approximately $50 per year for the first two years and $20 per year for the last two years.
The summer period following the second year lasts eight weeks; the summer term that follows the junior year lasts eleven weeks. A minimum of sixty general and sixty vocational nursing education credits are required for graduation. The remaining general education credits are earned through the Indianapolis Extension Department during the three years the student resides on the Medical Center campus.
The professional nursing courses begin in the first semester of the second year and continue throughout the remainder of the program. Clinical nursing courses include learning experiences in general medical-surgical, communicable and surgical nursing, maternity nursing, pediatric nursing, and psychiatric and community nursing.
Courses of Instruction
A brief general introduction to the nature of government and its various forms and to modern theories of its operation, followed by a specific treatment of the origin and nature of the American federal system and its present political party base. Study and discussion of selected writings of contemporary philosophers in which answers to some of the most important philosophical problems are proposed. The interrelationships of the problems and the essential differences between the various solutions of thl'm.
Ethics examines what is right and wrong in people, people's actions and the results caused by their actions. The study of the development of behavior in infancy, childhood, and adolescence, including the investigation of factors that influence different types of behavior. Origins, significance and applications to today's problems; contagious and impulsive behavior as manifested in fashion, fads, mob behavior, mob violence, panic and rumour; mechanisms of group interaction, including group dynamics, leadership, and prestige; psychology of social institutions; role reversal, social unrest and maladjustment.
A course designed to help students gain an understanding of the physiological effects of drugs and their therapeutic uses, as well as the role of the nurse in the administration of drugs and the need for continuous investigation of drug therapy. A survey of food nutrients for the normal diet with modifications to include food habits of cultural and religious groups and for applications to the family according to members' age, income, meal patterns, and food preferences. Progressive examination of nursing care for adult medical-surgical patients, including the theory behind professional practice, with nursing principles applied through guided experience with selected patients in various clinical settings.
A course designed to help students understand and meet the nursing needs of the child and his family in health and illness with experience in clinic, hospital and nursery. This course includes principles considered essential to or inherent in the promotion of mental health and treatment and rehabilitation of the mentally ill. Emphasize interrelationships between nurse, patient, family, community and psychiatric team members, and focus special attention on the therapeutic role of the psychiatric nurse.
This course addresses the major responsibilities and activities of a public health organization, and its relationship to public health nursing. A consideration of administrative principles as a guide for action in entry-level nursing leadership positions with opportunities to apply the principles through guided experience in selected clinical areas. Trends, fields of nursing, nursing education, professional organizations, and responsibilities of the graduate nurse in practice are studied.