baccalaureate program is built on a general education curriculum which has added courses in the physical and social sciences and the humanities. These are basic for the major areas of nursing, such as medical-surgical, maternal and child health, commu nity nursing and psychiatric nurs ing. Such a student completing the prescribed curriculum is eligible to apply for graduate work for even further possibilities of leadership and service. Here at Biola we’re com mitted to educate for more than nursing, for we seek to challenge those who can interpret needs and suffering in the light of Christian belief, philosophy and principles. A graduate from Biola’s Bacca laureate Nursing Program provides a B.S. degree in the nursing major with qualification for the R.N. Li censure and the Public Health Cer tification. In completing this work, the graduate may go right to the mission field, or continue to advance her studies. On the foreign field, she might want to become a Registered Midwife, qualifying in this impor tant field of obstetrics. Such a course could be taken during a summer, or on her first furlough. At Biola we believe that man needs more than the mere cure of his physical sickness. If science could make people happy or good, man in the twentieth century would be the happiest and best of all time. But we note that this isn’t so. Science, without the law of God, continues to be the greatest destroying power. Similarly, nursing can be more than an ordinary job. A Christian nurse has as her goal ministering to people in the name of Christ, that others may find Him as Saviour. Miss B eth A lbert , R.N., a gradu ate of Biola and a missionary in India, shares with us the great needs of that land today: “The impera tives today are much the same as they’ve been over the years. In our service there must be holiness, un
selfishness and an actual expression of love toward those to whom we minister. The foundation for the care of the sick is given by the Word of the Lord in Matthew 22:37-40. Areas that have been more primitive in the past are changing. No longer is there the call for practical or mis sionary medicine as we've known it through the years. Today the people are asking for nurse specialists and nurse educators to join the medical teams in helping to educate the na tionals.” Our Biola Christian nursing fac ulty believes that the professional nurse should be concerned with the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health of the individ ual. We want to prepare a nurse who is able to give complete patient-cen tered care and to carry out nursing roles with appropriate dep th of knowledge from the behavioral sci ences and humanities, as well as re lated courses in the health disci plines. To do this, we utilize the fa cilities of community hospitals and health, centers. Our students have their clinical studies in the Kaiser Hospital in Bellflower, S h rin e rs ' Hospital for Crippled Children in Los Angeles, Barlow Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Los Angeles, LAC- USC Medical Center in Los Angeles (4 of their hospitals), Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey, Metro politan State Hospital, Mirada Hills Convalescent Hospital and Rehabili tation Hospital, LAC Public Health and Mental Health Agencies. Here on the campus we have two nursing laboratories. The manual lab has seven adult manikins and several infant dolls, one being for resuscitation training. We have a well-furnished laboratory of ten hos pital beds which help the student in the initial studies to beeome ac quainted with genuine hospital situ ations. In addition, we have an audio visual laboratory where s tu d en ts 25
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