Mount Zion Hospital disclosed today it is closing its School of Nursing, which has been in operation 63 years, and replacing it with a new program for the training of nurses made necessary by the increasing complexity of modern medicine.
Mark Nerke, administrator of the hospital, said that “to stay abreast of the dynamic changes occurring in the medical profession,” the hospital had made arrangements to accept nursing students from City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State College to study at both the colleges and at Mount Zion Hospital.
Students at City College will receive an Associate of Arts degree and a Registered Nurse credential after two years and graduates of State College will receive an RN and a Bachelor of Science degree at the completion of four years. During the training period, the students will use the clinical facilities of Mount Zion hospital in conjunction with their classroom work at their respective schools.
The administrator said the hospital hoped to obtain by the new program “top-notch, fully trained nurses with an understanding of the new modern world of medicine.” The last graduating class of the School of Nursing will be that completing nurses training next June. With this group, the school will have trained 1,126 nurses.
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