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During the year 1912 the United States Bureau of Education issued "Bulletin No. 7, 1912," entitled "Educational Status of Nursing," prepared by Miss M. Adelaide Nutting, Director of Department of Nursing and Health, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, in which improvements, "during the "during the past five past five years," in the work and conditions in the educational training of professional nurses were set forth.

Since the year 1912 the status of the professional nurse has become more fully recognized, and if the classification of nurse training schools maintained in 191112 is adhered to a comparison of the statistics for the school year 1917-18, recently compiled in the United States Bureau of Education, with the statistics reported in "Bulletin No. 7, 1912," is made easily available to show the remarkable advancement of the profession of nursing during the six years intervening between 1911-12 and 1917-18.

In 1917-18 the number of schools affiliated with general hospitals reporting is 1,625, with 52,218 nurse pupils, 12,966 graduates, 176,747 beds, and an average. number of daily patients of 123,070; affiliated with specialized hospitals, or hospitals for the treatment of insane patients, is 84, with 3,033 nurse pupils, 785 grad

uates, 126,466 beds, and an average number of daily patients of 102,829.

In 1911-12 the number of schools affiliated with general hospitals was reported as 1,048, with 26,511 nurse pupils, 6,971 graduates, 101,708 beds, and an average number of daily patients of 53,232; affiliated with hospitals for the treatment of insane patients was reported as 70, with 3,251 pupils, 738 graduates, 92,378 beds, and an average number of daily patients of 68,856.

In the consolidation of the totals of these two classes of schools the grand. totals for the school year 1917-18 may be used in comparison with the grand totals. for the school year 1911-12 to still further. illustrate the growth in the profession of nursing during recent years: In 1917-18 (67 training schools failing to make a report) the total number of schools reporting, is 1,709, in 1911-12, was 1,118, increase, 52.9 per cent.; in 1917-18 the total number of nurse pupils reported, is 55,251, in 1911-12, was 29,762, increase, 85.6 per cent.; in 1917-18 the total number of graduates reported, is 13.751, in 1911-12, was 7,709, increase, 78.4 per cent.; in 1917-18 the total number of beds reported, is 303.193, in 1911-12, was 194.086, increase, 56.2 per cent, and in 1917-18 the total average number of daily

patients reported, is 225,899, in 1911-12, was 122,088, increase, 85 per cent.

In the size of nurse training schools, maintained in general hospitals, the school most frequently noted does not register more than 21 pupils. In other words, 76 per cent of the schools reporting enrollment have a smaller number than 40 nurse pupils. In one very large training school an enrollment of more than 300 nurse pupils is noted. In hospitals for the treatment of insane patients 30.9 per cent of the nurse pupils are registered in training schools with more than 40 pupils each.

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The accompanying "graph" when read from left to right shows any desired percentage of nurse pupils with the percentage of schools in which these pupils are enrolled; read from the bottom upward shows any desired percentage of schools with the percentage of pupil nurses rolled therein. When thus read, it appears that 30 per cent of the total number of nurse pupils are enrolled in eight per cent of the schools, while 30 per cent of the schools enroll 65 per cent of pupil It also is evident, from following the curve line, that nurse pupils enrolled in the various training schools for professional nurses are more equally distributed than would, casually, be expected.

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In regard to educational requirements for admission into the various training schools, affiliated with general hospitals, which reported this information, the following compares these requirements in the year 1918 with the corresponding requirements in the year 1911:

Educational requirements in 1911 eighth grade 252 schools, 31.7 per cent; in 1918, 192 schools, 12.1 per cent. One year of high school, in 1911, 190 schools, 24.0 per cent, in 1918, 681 schools, 42.7 per cent.

Two years of high school in 1911, 26 schools, 3.3 per cent, in 1918, 263 schools, 16.5 per cent. Three years of high school, in 1911, 3 schools, 4 per cent, in 1918, 9 schools, 6 per cent. ComCom

plete high school course, in 1911, 323 schools, 40.6 per cent, 1918, 447 schools, 28.1 per cent. Totals, in 1911, 794 schools, 100 per cent, in 1918, 1,592 schools, 100 per cent.

Affiliated with hospitals for the treatment of the insane, in the year 1918, 42 training schools required the completion of the eighth grade, 30 schools required one year of high school work, and six schools required two or three years of high school work, for admission into their training classes.

The tendency on the part of a majority of the training schools for professional nurses, reporting educational requirements, appears to be one or two years of high school work as is shown in the following figures where training schools, maintained in general hospitals, which report both the educational requirements and the total enrollment, with the percentages in each, ap

pear:

Requirements for admission in 1918, 190 schools, 12.I per cent, nurse pupils, 3,757, 7.3 per cent. One year of high school, 670 schools, 42.7 per cent, nurse pupils, 21,087, 41.3 per cent. Two years of high school, 260 schools, 16.5 per cent, pupil nurses 9.769, 19.1 per cent. Three years of high school, 9 schools, 6 per cent, nurse pupils, 364, .6 per cent. Complete high school course, 440 schools, 28.1 per cent, nurse pupils, 16.165, 31.7 per cent. Total, 1,569 schools, 100 per cent, nurse pupils 51,082, 100 per cent.

In the consulting of the above table, it is generally shown that the larger nurse training schools have the higher educational requirements, while it is generally shown that the smaller training schools maintain a standard of lower edu cational requirements for admission to their classes. This condition may, possibly, be explained by reason of the fact that the larger hospitals offering exceptional and varied facilities for the training of professional nurses can demand