MEMORANDUM OF INFORMATION

 

DATE: April 1, 1974

FROM: WILLIAM L. DAY
RE: STATUS REPORT RE NURSING EDUCATION

A. Don Porter and Bill Day interviewed across Canada for two positions:

(1) A Chairman of Health Services - the proposed new Division of
Douglas College which would have responsibility for
incorporating existing Health oriented courses and
developing future programs.

(2) They have also interviewed individuals who could be
considered for positions as instructors and/or
coordinators in various speciality program fields,
sucn as Nursing.

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B. It has become evident that there is a crucial shortage of
leadership and instruction potential in all fields of
the Health Services.

Cc. As a result of this situation, the following decisions have
been reached:

(1) Development of curricula relating to the field of Nursing
will continue for the immediate future with emphasis
on Continuing Education for the Psychiatric and
Registered Nurses through Shirley Patz as field programmer
in the Social Sciences.

(2) We now believe that our revised target date for the provision
of Nursing and other Health programs will be September, 1975.

(3) Our main energies are presently focussed on locating and
arranging for a suitable appointee as Chairman or Acting
Chairman of the new Health Services Division.

(4) Until this appointment is made, we do not intend to implement
major new programs, as this would tend to distort the nature

of the future Division by the premature commitment of
resources to highly expensive forms of education. and training.

WILLIAM L. DAY/rk

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