School of Nursing Scrapbook 1979

- UN8ll80 UNION 1-3 D Nursing School Dedicated

Friday, January72, 1970 New $21/2 Million

crease in health services degrees ~t the master's and doctoral levels m the next decade, based on results of a panel study commissioned by Con- gre~. · di ted She said the study also m ca a 300 percent increase in nursing or health care careerists at the bac– calaureate level, with four years' college education, and a 48 perCE:nt increase in registered nurses, with at least two years of training. She noted a Labor Depar:t~ent prediction that 240,000 additional jobs in nursing would open up by 1985. "We are trying to develop an intellectual acumen within t~e (nursing) student," Palme~ said. This would suggest, she said, that. students who begin as nurses and pursue advanced educ~tion could move into high professional health <

care decision-making areas, analyz.i ing and counseling as well as han– dling administration. Palmer characterized the SChool of Nursing approach at USD, where the first class of nursing students was admitted in 1975 in former quar– ters as "non-traditional" and capa– ble 'of leading to health services provided "in ways unthought of before.'' USD President Author Hughes noted that the new building - blessed by Bishop LE,> T. Maher - "is the first major structural addi– tion to the campus since the early 1960s." Rep. Bob Wilson, R-San Diego, called the occasion "a very import– ant dedication," complementing "one of the most successful nursing • school programs in the West if not in the entire United States_.'_' ___

There is a shortage of nurses with advanced degrees and Congress should support nurse education pro– grams, he said. Distinguished service awards were presented to Rosella M. Schlot– feldt, preofessor of nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and to Jessie M. Scott, assistant surgeon general and director of nursing for the Health Resources Administration, U.S. Pub– lic Health Service, Washington, D.C. Honorary doctorates of humane letters were conferred upon Mary Ann Garrigan, professor of nursing at Boston University, and Martha E. Rogers, professor of nursing at New York University. The dedicatory program continues today at USD with a forum on nursing i~ues getting under way at 9:30 a.m.

The University of San Diego yes– terday dedicated a new $2½ million campus facility de~igned to respond to changing educational needs of the health care profession. . It ls the Muriel Marsh Hahn Pavi– lion, housing the Philip_ Y. H~hn Schopl of Nursiqg, a proJect dat~g back to 1972 in preliminary plan~ng and made possible by matc~g grants from the Hahn Foundation and the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Hahn spoke briefly, calling the pavilion a memo– rial to Philip, her late husband. . Public demand for more high– quality health services will lead the nursing profession to higher levels of learning, the audience attending the afternoon ceremony was told. In a dedicatory address, the school's dean, Dr. Irene Sabelbe~g Palmer, predicted a 568 percent m-

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PMS IRENE PALMER PHO, DEAN SCHOOL OF NURSING, DELIVER EARLY AM, DLR UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ALCALA PARK SAN DIEGO CA 92110 MY VERY BEST WISHES TO YOU ALL ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEDICATION OF THE MURIEL MARSH HAHN PAVILION OF PHILIP Y HAHN SCHOOL OF NURSING. I REGRET I COULD NOT BE PRESENT AT THE DEDICATION OR AT THE FORUM ON NURSINQ ISSUES WHERE YOU ARE ADDRESSING THE ENTRY INTO PRACTICE ISSUE. THIS ISSUE IS BEING DEBATED ACROSS THE COUNTRY BUT MUST BE RESOLVED IF WE AS A PROFESSION ARE TO MOVE INTO THE SO'S WITH STRENGTH. CORDIALLY

BARBARA NICHOLS, PRESIDENT AMERICAN NURSES ASSN SF-1201 (RS-69)