A study of practical and associate degree nursing education in Iowa from 1918 to 1978

A study of the development of diploma and baccalaureate degree nursing education programs in Iowa from 1907-1978

“…Fenwick proposed four reasons for the higher education of nurses: the advanced level of many of the activities they perform} the development of intelligence and vitality necessary for keeping abreast of advances in science and in hospital economics; the cultivation of the individual personality; and finally, the evolution of a strong sense of civic responsibility (pp. [4][5][6][7][8]. The hospital economics postgraduate course offered in 1899 at Teachers College, Columbia University was a beginning.…”