School of Nursing Scrapbook 1979

USO Given Grant For Nurse School .

S-tJ~~ ~~2i1, USO wins

grant for building

signed to meet the California law which says that by July 1978, practicing nurses must take continuing education to keep up with changes. The new school will be designed to meet the special needs of the working-study– ing nurse, said Dr. Irene Palmer, dean of the school. The program expects to serve about 60 students in the coming year, with class– es spread around the cam– pus.

The University of San Diego has received a $1 mil– lion federal grant for a School of Nursing building on the campus. It is the first federal con– struction money ever grant– ed to the private university, and will be the first new building on the campus since the sports center was com– pleted in 1962. University President Au– thor E. Hughes said yester– day that the building will be started early next year, is scheduled for completion in early 1978, and will follow the ornate Spanish Renais– sance architecture of the present structures. The building will house the new Philip Y. Hahn School of Nursing, which earned full eight-year accreditation from the National League of Nursing only 15 months after the program began in Janu– ary 1975. The federal grant is a matching fund requiring 75 per cent from the govern– ment and 25 per cent from the university. Hughes said the govern– ment had provided $1,080,126 from a National Institutes of Health construction fund for health care institutions, and the Hahn Foundation is pro– viding the univerity's share. Two sites are being consid– ered for the new structure, both at the west end of the campus. One is on the south side of the campus' main drive, next to the diocesan office, and the other, farther to the west, on the north side of the road. The university's nursing school and program is de-

A federal construction grant of $1,080,126 for its School of Nursing has been awarded to the University of San Diego. Dr. Author E. Hughes, USD president, announced that the grant from the De– partment of Health, Educa– tion and Welfare is for con– struction of an education building in the School of Nursing. The university will be required to provide matching funds, he added. Dr. Irene Palmer, dean of the school, said the building will be designed for instruc– tional, learning, office and support space for faculty, · staff and students. "The population projec– tions for San Diego and Imperial counties alone in– dicate a very real need for additional nurses in South– ern California," Hughes said. "The mandate of Califor– nia law which states that by July 1978 each practicing nurse must avail herself of continuing education to keep up with the changes in patient care will be fulfilled by the availability of the Hahn School of Nursing to the nurse and to the community." Construction is expected to begin early in 1977, Hughes said. It will follow the Spanish Renaissance architecture of existing structures on the Alcala Park campus, he noted.

10-SOlJTHERN CROSS, August 5, 1976

$1 million federal grant to help USO build new nursing school

ment. the university will be required to provide ~latching funds for construction of the 20,000-square-foot building which will include adminis– trative offices, conference rooms, class and seminar rooms, an audio-visual cen– ter and an auditorium. Begun with the donation of $1 million from the late Phillip Y. Hahn, the nursing school, directed by Dean Irene Palmer, provides bach– elor's and master's degrees in nursing for registered nurses.

THE NEW building will also allow the school to provide continuing education courses, mandatory for prac– ticing nurses by 1978 under state law. Expected to follow the Spanish Renaissance archi– tecture of current buildings on the campus, the new building will probably be built on the west side of the campus either next to the Copley Library or next to the San Diego Diocesan Office building, according to Dr. Hughes.

Southern Cross Reporter With the help of a $1 million federal grant, con– struction of a new building for the University of San Diego Hahn School of Nurs– ing will begin early next year. Dr. Author E. Hughes, USO president, announced that the U.S. Department of Health, Educaton and Wel– fare has placed the proposed building on its active con– struction grant list. AS PART of the agree-