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An Experiment in Exchanging Graduate Nurses

1933; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 33; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1097/00000446-193305000-00028

1538-7488

Hattie B. Trauba, Marion Johnson,

Social and Demographic Issues in Germany

G RADUATION and thena good job? What a dream of yesterday! What a real disappointment today to a graduate nurse! Private duty beckons her with a palsied hand. In this economic crisis, institutions are not in need of graduate nurses. Upon applying for a position, the recent graduate finds that she must compete with the experienced graduate. She is told that this is an age of specialization. Not content to sit idle and allow her energies to become dormant, she is advised to center her interest in a postgraduate course. Again certain obstacles confront her. Where and what sort of postgraduate course should she take? What financial means can she rely on to achieve her goal? Any profession profits by an interchange of ideas. Each year the Medical School at the University of Wisconsin reciprocates an internship with the Universities of Indiana, Oregon, Virginia, and Kansas. For several years past a similar reciprocity has been carried on among the surgical staff men with the German and Swiss surgeons. Why could not such an exchange profit the nursing field? This paper relates the details of such an exchange experiment recently effected by the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing with the nursing schools at the University of Indiana and the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. The purpose was to foster a keener understanding of nursing problems between nursing schools, and to make available to staff nurses a broader education of nursing in a specialized field. Who would profit more by this education-the recent graduate or a graduate who has held an institutional position? To answer this question both experiments were tried.