90 5. Basic Nursing Practice. Principles of advanced nursing practices. Provides experience in more complicated nursing procedures. Three three-hour hospital laboratory periods per week. Three quarter hours. Summer. Staff 7. Geriatric Nursing. Provides instruction in institutional and community orientation and training in understanding the aging process. Consideration of social, economic and health problems of the aging patient. Lecture and laboratory experience. Three quarter hours. Spring. Staff 10. Introduction to Disease. Designed to introduce the student to disease concepts with emphasis upon conditions of the skin, including ear, nose, throat, circulatory, gastro-intestinal and genito-Airinary systems. Two lectures per week. Two quarter hours. Winter. Staff 10a. Disease Ward Practice, Continuation of Nursing 10. Designed to provide demonstrations, conferences and clinics in disease ward practice. Two three-hour hospital laboratory periods per week. Two quarter hours. Winter. Staff 11. Introduction to Communicable Disease Nursing. Course orients student to principles of communicable disease nursing. Lectures, demonstrations and hospital clinic. Two quarter hours. Autumn. Staff ■ 11a.—Communicable Disease Clinics. Designed to provide experience and develop personal judgment in communicable disease and tuberculosis nursing care. Work equivalent to three three-hour periods per week. Three quarter hours. Winter. Staff 14. Introduction to Medicines. Physiological, toxicological, and therapeutic actions of drugs. Includes preparation of solutions for treatment and administration of medicinals to patients. Two quarter hours. Spring. Staff 14a. Medical Clinics. Designed to give training and provide experience in use and administration of medicines. Demonstrations, conferences and clinics. Two three-hour hospital laboratory periods per week. Two quarter hours. Spring. Staff 21. Orthopedic and Genito-Urinary Nursing. Demonstrations, conferences and clinics in musculoskeletal conditions, urology and gynecology. Equivalent to two three-hour hospital laboratory periods per week. Two quarter hours. Summer. Staff 23. Obstetrical Nursing. Designed to provide additional experience and promote personal competence in routine obstetrical and nursery practices in the hospital. Equivalent to three three-hour periods per week. Three quarter hours. Summer. Staff 91 23a. Obstetrical Experience. Theory and clinical practices of obstetrical nursing. Designed to give routine hospital experience in caring for parturient patients. Equivalent to four three-hour perods per week in the hospital. Four quarter hours. Staff 25. Pediatric Nursing. Theory and clinical practices of pediatric nursing. Designed to give routine hospital experience in caring for young children. Equivalent to three three-hour periods per week. Three quarter hours. Autumn. Staff 31. Principles of Psychiatric Nursing. Includes theory and clinical practice in psychiatric nursing. Equivalent to five three-hour periods per week Five quarter hours. Spring. Staff 33. Public Health Nursing. Theory and experience in public health nursing. Equivalent to three three-hour periods per week. Three quarter hours. Spring. Staff 35. ISurgical Nursing. A course designed to prepare students in aseptic techniques, preoperative and postoperative care of patients in the hospital. Equivalent to three three-hour hospital laboratory periods per week. Three quarter hours. Winter. Staff 36. Advanced Medical Surgical Specialties. Designed to give additional experience in routine hospital medical surgical cases. Equivalent to three three-hour periods per week. Three quarter hours. Summer. Staff 38. Advanced Nursing. Organization and education in nursing service to meet changing social needs. Three quarter hoUrs. Summer. Staff 40. Professional Orientation. General review of knoweldge, skills and services in nursing. Three quarter hours. Summer. Staff PRACTICAL NURSING Loy F. Doss, Roselyn W. Slade, Margaret C. Howard In the fall of 1952 Weber College, in cooperation with the Thomas D. Dee Memorial and St. Benedict's Hospital, initiated a course in Practical Nursing. This program is designed to be completed in one year — four months study at Weber College, seven months supervised experience at the hospital, and one month vacation. During the clinical experience the student is paid a stipend by the hospital so she "earns while she learns." This field offers many employment opportunities to the qualified individual. The aim is to develop an individual with skill, understanding, resourcefulness, and good judgement so that she may better serve the health needs of the community. When the course is satisfactorily completed a Certificate of Proficiency will be awarded. Since 18 years is the minimum legal age for employment and maturity is essential for this type of work, the training has been planned to start at the close of the 12th grade level.