School of Nursing Scrapbook 1979

I~ 26, 1975

Nursing. Aid Veto Criticized By RAY KIPP able to other college stu- Edleaalon Wrtaer dents. 'lie Su Dlege Ulilon Mr. Ford said he would

nursing program but there was no immediate assess– ment of the affect there. Walter Coats, vocational coordinator for the San Diego Community College District, did not feel the veto would have much impact on the district's programs for nurses aides, licensed voca– tional nurses (LVN) and up grading registered nurses. He said support for the programs comes throug state vocational financing.

authorized $46,906 between June, 1973, and June, 1975, for capitation (augmentation of state support) financing and $13,062 to nursing stu– dent grants and aids be– tween September, 1974, and August, 1976. These . programs already authorized will not be affect– ed by the veto. The effects, however, will be felt in fu– ture programs, officials said. Point Loma College has 108 students enrolled in its

President Ford's veto of propose a comprehensive fU4 million in support for health manpower bill, in– nurses training Is a poor eluding nursing programs, prescription for future. to the 94th Congress. health care, according to the Dr. Palmer said the veto head of the University of San will have adverse effects on Diego's nursing program. all of the 1,377 schools and "It has essentially wiped hospitals offering degree or out any federal support for diploma nursing training as nursing programs or well as those offeril)g'master nurses," Dr. Irene Palmer and doc ral studies. said of Mr. Ford's decision "Nursing schools across to veto the three-year-feder- the country will have to un– al appropriation bill for derwrite whatever support nursing programs. they might have gotten by The bill would have ex- raising tuition or donations tended federal assistance to or the quality of health care nursing programs - curric- Will (in the long run) be ulum expansion, nursing stu- diminished," she said. dent grants and scholar- Even tf nursing support is ships, augmentation of state included in a comprehensive support, nursing facility con- health measure, Dr. Palmer struction and expansion - feels there will not be the and would have created new type of support that would be programs designed to train available if it were treated nurses in specialized medi- separately. cal treatment. Dr. Palmer said th exact Mr. Ford based his deci- effects of the veto on the sion to pocket veto the bill US.D nursing school are not last month because he felt 1t yet known, but it is certain placed too much emphasis to affect students needing on construction, did not em- grants or other financial as– phasize specialized training sistance. and did not do enough to At San Diego State Univer– relleve sevre shortages of sity, where nearly 190 stu– nurses in particular geo- dents are enrolled in nursing graphic areas. classes, there was no imme- The President also said diate estimate on the im– that nursing students should pact. receive the same source of However, the San Diego financial assistance avail- State School of Nursing was