DUKE
HOSPITAL
JUNE, 1957
DURHAM, N. C.
FIRST NURSES GRADUATE
IN DEGREE PROGRAM
Some 40 student nurses who ex
changed blue and white uniforms for
aeadeinic robes at Duke’s ]()5th Com
mencement liere on June 3, represent
an important “first” in the Duke
School of Nursing.
Candidates for the B.S. in Nursing
degree, they are the first students to
complete all four years of a new nurs
ing degree program established at
Duke in lOf),'].
Although the girls jokingly refer to
themselves as “guinea pigs,” they are
actually jiioneers in the degree pro
gram, which was set up to provide
more nurses with a background for
advanced training in instructional
and su])crvisory fields.
This year also marks the discon
tinuation of the long-standing three-
year program leading to the Diploma
in Nursing, Dean Ann M. Jacobansky
of the School of Nursing said.
Slie pointed out that this program
will no longer be oifered because the
majority of Nursing School appli
cants now express j)reference for the
foiu’-year degree program.
The degree program is designed to
integrate general and ])rofessional
education by requiring undergradu
ate liberal arts, coiirses as Avell as
nursing stiulies. The diploma ])ro-
gram, on the other hand, has stressed
(leveloj)ment of skills, knowledge and
attitudes needed for bedside nursing
in hospitals and homes.
In addition to the 40 candidates for
the B.S. in Nursing degree, some 23
seniors received di])lomas in Nursing
on June 3. Last year, 35 15.S.N. de-
gi'ees were awarded to transfer stu
dents, 25 of whom took the final three
years of the degree program, and 10
of whom held Diplomas in Nursing
and completed academic recpiir'ements
for the degree.
Since the new ])rogram was ini
tiated in 1953, enrolImenl in the
School of Nursing has iiici'cased from
130 to some 300, This fall, 80 stu
dents from North Carolina, a number
of other states and two foreign coun
tries will be accei)ted as freshmen.
—Ihj Norman Nelson.
Titus lo Speak
l^ert R, Titus, director of the Duke
Hospital Prosthetic and Orthopedic
Api)liance Center, has been invited to
serve as visiting instructor for a s])c-
cial i>rosthetics course at the Univer
sity of California at Los Angeles,
June 3-28.
He was selected from among out
standing prosthetists throughout the
nation to join the faculty for the
four-week course in upper-extremity
prosthetics. The ‘ourse is designed
for prosthetists, doctors, j)hysical
theraj)ists and occupational thera
pists.
Summer Coffee
Schedule
Summer hours will go into effect
for the Lobby Coffee Counter after
June 1. Mrs. Watt W. Eagle, cof
fee service chairman, announcies
that the Ijobby Countei' will close
at 4 p.m. each day and will be re-
0]:>ened in the evenings in the fall.
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Dr. Davu) T. Smith
Dr. Smith Receives
National Award
Dr. David T. Smith has been hon
ored by the National Tuberculosis
Association for outstatuling research
and leadershi]).
Dr. Smith, James B. D::ke Profes
sor of P>acteriol()gy in the Duke Medi
cal School, received the Trudeau
M('dal at the Association’s annual
convention as tiu^ ])erson who has
made the most outstanding contribu
tion in tuberculosis work in the
United States.
Dr. Smith has done extensive re
search in tubercular and non-tubercu-
lar infections of the lungs. During
the ])ast 10 years, he has worked on
three revisions of Zinsser’s Textbook
of Bacteriology, an outstanding text
in that field.
Dr. Smith served as president of
the National Tuberculosis Association
during 1950-51. lie has also headed
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