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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 27

missions of the School of Nursing. (This requirement is added to bring the Continuation P r o g r a m in substantial agreement with the regular four-year program in nurse's training.) 6. T h e completion of a program of courses in the University of Illinois School of Nursing totaling thirty-nine and one-third semester hours (fifty-nine quarter hours). These are all advanced courses including institutional nursing and public health nursing experience as well as courses in management and supervision. (This requirement is intended to assure that all of the students in the Continuation Program will have a thorough training in the essential fields of nursing. It will also meet the residence requirement for the degree.) 7. T h a t the examination based on the Graduate Nurse Test Battery of the National League for Nursing be continued with provision that the applicant must attain a score of not less than one and one-half standard deviation below the mean of collegiate norms for the total score and for each of the sub-scores. ( T h e student, by passing this test, will establish satisfactory evidence of the soundness of her training in basic nurse's training and will receive forty semester hours credit in clinical nursing.) 8. The applicant must acquire credit as follows by passing achievement tests set by the National League for Nursing or by credit for such courses taken in an accredited college or university: anatomy and physiology, five semester hours; microbiology, three semester hours. (This represents a reduction of one semester hour in microbiology.) Summary Candidates in the Continuation Program in Nursing as proposed will complete the following credits for the Bachelor of Science degree: Semester Hours Liberal Arts courses in prescribed pre-nursing subjects 30 Advanced Liberal Arts courses in Humanities and Social Sciences 8 Clinical Nursing credit based on a standardized examination set by the National League for Nursing for graduate nurses 40 Anatomy and Physiology 5 Microbiology 3 Courses which must be completed in residence in the School of Nursing at the Chicago Medical Center (59 quarter hours) 39^, Total 125K3 This program should not be confused with the regular four-year course in nurse's training, which was approved in 1954 and which required one year of pre-nursing, taken in the University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences or elsewhere, followed by three years (or eleven quarter terms) in the School of Nursing in Chicago and which is considered the standard program of nurse's training. The Continuation Program is designed to give college training to nurses who have already graduated from a hospital training school and desire to take the pre-nursing academic work and receive a degree. While this is in reverse order, it is nevertheless a desirable program because the need for superv i s o r personnel in nursing is very great, and the only way this need can be met is to offer a program of college work to nurses who have already completed the practical courses of instruction. Hence, the changes proposed will bring the Continuation P r o g r a m more closely in harmony with the four-year program and will make the former available to nurses who have received their training in accredited hospitals and training schools in foreign countries. The graduate nurse's examination, to be required of all candidates, will assure that the previous professional training has been of acceptable quality. I concur in these recommendations.

On motion of Mr. Herrick, these recommendations were approved.

HONORS IN T H E COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS A N D SCIENCES ( n ) The University Senate recommends adoption of the following plan for awarding honors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to replace the present honors program in that College.