Health Professions
“Nursing 1” Syllabus, 1931
By the mid-1920s, the Washington University School of Nursing offered two degree programs. A three-year, non-collegiate program led to a diploma in Nursing (R.N.). A five-year collegiate program led to a bachelor’s in science degree in Nursing. Required classes in both programs at the time included Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Nutrition and Cooking, and Social Aspects of Disease. The three-year diploma in Nursing program included “Oral English,” a 15-hour course “designed to develop proper voice placement, articulation, enunciation, and the ability to read aloud and to speak extemporaneously.”
“Theory and Practice of Nursing” or “Nursing 1” was a 90-hour, 4-unit required course for all nursing students in 1931. The course was designed “to familiarize the student with the elementary practical nursing procedures before assignment to definite duty on the wards.” The following course outline includes the lecture and laboratory content of the class.
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