INTRODUCTION 7
CHAPTER Ⅰ EXTENSION OF HEALTH SERVICES 25
The Hospital as a Community Health Center 25
Expansion of Public Health Services 30
Larger Financing of Health Services 31
Maintenance of Health as the Future Goal 33
CHAPTER Ⅱ FUTURE DEMAND FOR NURSING CARE 42
Present Conditions in the Practice of Nursing 45
Present Conditions in Nursing Education 48
Deterrents to Future Developments 51
CHAPTER Ⅲ DIFFERENTIATION OF NURSING SERVICE ACCORDING TO FUNCTION 57
The System of Nongraduate Nursing Service 58
Objections to Extended Use of Assistant Personnel 60
Engineering as an Example of Differentiated Functions 63
Building Nongraduate Personnel into Integrated Service Teams 66
CHAPTER Ⅳ FUTURE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL NURSE 73
The Clinical Nurse as Skilled Technician 78
The Clinical Nurse as Minister to the Healing Art 84
Difficulties in Extending Psychotherapy 85
Necessity for Increasing Salaries and Prestige 92
The Nursing Specialist 95
CHAPTER Ⅴ EDUCATION FOR PRACTICAL AND GRADUATE BEDSIDE NURSES 101
Preparation for the Practical Nurse 101
The Graduate Bedside Nurse 106
Proposals Concerning Hospital Schools of Nursing 108
Socially Undesirable Schools 109
Relatively Good Schools 116
Distinguished Schools 127
Schools of Specialized Hospitals 132
CHAPTER Ⅵ EDUCATION FOR THE PROFESSIONAL NURSE 138
Need for Both Academic and Professional Training 138
Integration of Academic and Professional Curricula 140
Integration as a Pattern for Future Nursing Education 143
Experiments in the Integrated Curriculum 145
Inherent Advantages 148
Requirements for Establishing Sound Professional Schools 151
Organizational Structure 151
Facilities 153
Faculty 159
Financial Structure 163
CHAPTER Ⅶ RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE 174
Existing Collegiate Schools Contrasted with Resources Needed 174
Desirability of Broad Planning 178
＂Recruitment＂for Nursing Education and Service 186