p. 20 | (Concluded from Field Department) by M. E. Kern

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 10, 1911

(Concluded from Field Department)

By M. E. Kern

A Postgraduate Course for Nurses

“I WANT to advance in my work,” said a graduate nurse recently, “and I think the postgraduate course offered at Washington is just the thing for me.” Doubtless this expresses the sentiment of many others. Arrangements have been made whereby graduate nurses can work their way while doing this advanced work, thus making it possible for any one to take it.

Dispensary and Hospital Work

In our study of the needs of the foreign fields, and of the great centers of population at home as well, we have seen the urgent need of medical missionary nurses who have had dispensary and hospital training. So a part of the plan for the opening of a postgraduate course was the establishment of a hospital in connection with the Sanitarium here. We were also planning to start a small dispensary in Washington when there were offered to us facilities for this training which we, with our limited means, could probably never have procured. The Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital of the city of Washington has asked us to furnish nurses for their work, and we have arranged to have our postgraduate students spend a definite time there. These nurses will room in a well-regulated dormitory adjacent to the hospital, and will have the privilege of doing some class work even while engaged in the work there. Last year more than twenty-one thousand cases were treated at the Emergency Hospital, over three thousand of which were surgical. This excellent practical experience, together with the advanced study in minor surgery, electricity, physical diagnosis, obstetrics, special diseases, and various other subjects, will equip the nurse for more independent work in our foreign mission stations, where the direction of a physician can rarely be obtained, and for responsibilities in our sanitariums at home.

An Urgent Need

“Medical missionary work is to be carried forward with an earnestness with which it has never yet been done.” “In our medical missionary schools, many workers are to be qualified with the ability of physicians to labor as medical missionary evangelists.” The postgraduate work in nursing, with the practical courses in evangelical work offered at the Foreign Mission Seminary, are designed to give this training. “Medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the gospel,” and there is a great demand to-day from the home and foreign fields for well-qualified workers. The nurses who desire to enter the postgraduate nurses’ course at Washington should apply at once. Write for full information and application blanks to the undersigned at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

M. E. KERN,

President Washington Foreign Mission Seminary.