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Community and hospital in university nurse education : the Southampton experience

Community and hospital in university nurse education : the Southampton experience
Community and hospital in university nurse education : the Southampton experience

In 1948 the University College of Southampton, collaborating with local Health Authorities, established a health visitor course. Through its Joint Board for the Training of Health Visitors the University has made a unique contribution to nurse education. Linked with the Nightingale School, St. Thomas' Hospital, the integrated course of nurse/health visitor training started at the University in 1957 and continued until 1969 when it was converted into a degree with health visiting option, thus providing academic and professional nursing qualifications within the same programme of study.This thesis is concerned with the process, at local and national levels, of establishing and maintaining these courses and draws on source material from the minutes of the Joint Board and Annual Reports of the course. Analysis of data relating to student intakes shows characteristics and trends which influenced developments in nurse education at the University.The study spans the period 1948-19T4. The courses are reviewed in thecontext of changes in health care and in philosophy underlying nurse education, particularly that of health visitors. Attitudes towards a more academic approach to nurse education are discussed, and also the work of statutory and non-statutory bodies influencing this. The contribution of the Council for the Education and Training of Health Visitors is emphasised.The case for higher education for nurses is argued and related to the need for well-educated nurse managers in the reorganised health service. The recommendations of the Committee on Nursing (Chairman, Asa Briggs) emphasise the need for graduate nurses to develop a research-based profession in keeping with modern education and service requirements, and also to increase the number of well-educated nurse teachers. The Southampton experience is used to illustrate the contribution made by universities to nurse education on an experimental basis.

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O'Connell, Patricia Ethel
O'Connell, Patricia Ethel

O'Connell, Patricia Ethel (1975) Community and hospital in university nurse education : the Southampton experience. University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.

Record type: Thesis (Doctoral)

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In 1948 the University College of Southampton, collaborating with local Health Authorities, established a health visitor course. Through its Joint Board for the Training of Health Visitors the University has made a unique contribution to nurse education. Linked with the Nightingale School, St. Thomas' Hospital, the integrated course of nurse/health visitor training started at the University in 1957 and continued until 1969 when it was converted into a degree with health visiting option, thus providing academic and professional nursing qualifications within the same programme of study.This thesis is concerned with the process, at local and national levels, of establishing and maintaining these courses and draws on source material from the minutes of the Joint Board and Annual Reports of the course. Analysis of data relating to student intakes shows characteristics and trends which influenced developments in nurse education at the University.The study spans the period 1948-19T4. The courses are reviewed in thecontext of changes in health care and in philosophy underlying nurse education, particularly that of health visitors. Attitudes towards a more academic approach to nurse education are discussed, and also the work of statutory and non-statutory bodies influencing this. The contribution of the Council for the Education and Training of Health Visitors is emphasised.The case for higher education for nurses is argued and related to the need for well-educated nurse managers in the reorganised health service. The recommendations of the Committee on Nursing (Chairman, Asa Briggs) emphasise the need for graduate nurses to develop a research-based profession in keeping with modern education and service requirements, and also to increase the number of well-educated nurse teachers. The Southampton experience is used to illustrate the contribution made by universities to nurse education on an experimental basis.

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Published date: 1975

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Local EPrints ID: 462290
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/462290
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Author: Patricia Ethel O'Connell

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