The Boston College School of Nursing and the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged have jointly announced a pioneering, cooperative relationship designed to provide future nurses intensive instruction and practice in the care of the elderly. The far reaching agreement was signed by Rev. Thomas Fleming, treasurer and vice-president of Boston College; Miss Margaret M. Foley, dean of the Catholic-sponsored School of Nursing; Milton Berger, president of the Center; and Miss Bernadine J. Scutta, its director of nursing. Maurice I. May, the Center’s executive director, hailed the agreement as “a strong manifestation, by a school of nursing of high quality, of concern for providing future nurses with more training in the problems and needs of the aging. It is a source of satisfaction to the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged that Boston College has linked itself with us in the unique program. I am certain that the ultimate beneficiary of the experiences gained by the B.C. nursing students will be our elderly.”
Last spring the Center conducted a special seminar for students who completed their nursing training and who became degree candidates. The favorable reaction from Center teachers and B.C. nursing preceptors led to the historic agreement. Under the new arrangement between the two institutions, the Center’s facilities for instruction in nursing in the aging process and related health needs of the aged will be utilized for clinical experience. The program will be planned and implemented by the Center’s director of nursing and a faculty member from the Boston College School of Nursing. Students assigned to the Center will be in the first and second semesters of their Junior year. They will have five days, of from four to five hours weekly at the Center, and will return to Boston College for their afternoon classes. Students will also have the option of three full days of clinical experience at the Center. The Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged serves, also, as a teaching base for Boston University School of Social Work, and as a vital teaching unit in internal medicine for first, second, and third year students from Harvard Medical School. It also provides training for graduate students in long term care administration for The George Washington University.
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