Last fall, Linfield College purchased 20 acres in northeast Portland for a new nursing campus. When Linfield moves to its new facility in May 2020, it will mark a new chapter in nursing at Linfield, and the end of an era for the Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing’s northwest Portland location, its home since 1982

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Linfield Magazine Volume 15 Number 2 Spring 2019 Article 10 Spring 2019 Moving to the Future Christian Feuerstein Linfield College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/linfield_magazine Recommended Citation Feuerstein, Christian (2019) "Moving to the Future," Linfield Magazine: Vol. 15 : No. 2 , Article 10. Available at: https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/linfield_magazine/vol15/iss2/10 This article is brought to you for free via open access, courtesy of DigitalCommons@Linfield. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@linfield.edu. Spr ing  2019    |    L i n f i e l d  Magaz ine  -  34LINFIELD-GOODSAMARITANSCHOOL OF NURSINGNEXT EXITThe end of hospital-based education Until the late 1800s, nursing education in the United States consisted largely of apprenticeships in hospitals or doc-tors’ o  ces. Then came the age of hospital-based education, and by the turn of the 20th Century there were more than 400 hospital-based nursing schools in the country.  The curricula varied widely as there wasn’t a whole lot of standardization.  “Early on, each hospital set its own academic standards," says Kathryn Schach ’72, a registered nurse who graduated from the Good Samaritan School of Nursing, prior to its 1982 merger with Linfi eld College.   Nurses were trained in hospitals, of course, because they primarily worked in hospitals.Moving to the future “Students were considered [to be a part] of the hospital family. I graduated on a Friday and started work in the inter-mediate care unit the next Monday,” says Schach, who went on to gain national certifi cation in critical care nursing and spent more than 40 years working in Good Samaritan’s critical care unit before retiring in 2015.  But the trend was already moving away from hospitals. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, hospital-based diploma pro-grams declined rapidly as two-year, associate degree nursing programs took o .  By 1975, Good Samaritan found itself the only hospi-tal-based program left in Oregon. It was only a matter of time before it merged with an existing college or university. That eventually happened in 1982 with the creation of the Lin-fi eld-Good Samaritan School of Nursing. Last fall, Linfi eld College purchased 20 acres in northeast Portland for a new nursing campus. When Linfi eld moves to its new facility in May 2020, it will mark a new chapter in nursing at Linfi eld, and the end of an era for the Linfi eld-Good Samaritan School of Nursing’s northwest Portland location, its home since 1982. While Linfi eld’s location remained the same for 38 years, nursing education across the nation has never stood still for long.Spr ing  2019    |    L i n f i e l d  Magaz ine  -  35The rise of the BSN degree – and technology Nursing education was already changing again. In 1982, the National League for Nursing declared the bachelor’s of sci-ence in nursing (BSN) degree as the desired minimum educa-tional level for entry-level nurses. AA programs for nursing focus on practical skills, while a four-year program brings in theory, public health and research. The bachelor’s program would also ground nurses in liberal arts education outcomes, such as criti-cal thinking, communication and problem-solving skills.   Leaps in technology were also fast changing the land-scape. Simulation manikins, for example, have been a staple of nursing education since 1911, when “Mrs. Chase” dolls debuted with arm injection ports and internal reservoirs. But over time, manikins became increasingly automated, to the point where today’s simulation labs often require robotics tech-nicians and others with technical skills to operate them.   Linfi eld’s Experiential Learning Center has a variety of computerized simulation manikins, including a birthing manikin, newborn manikin and models for IV training and catheterizations.  “SIM lab gave us a safe space to make mistakes,” says Molly Mattick ’16, now a nurse in Emergency General Services at Oregon Health and Science University.  Technology has also changed how nursing education can be delivered. In the 1990s, online education started making inroads as a viable alternative to in-person higher education programs. Linfi eld College’s division of Online and Continuing Education (OCE) began o ering its online RN to BSN program in 2003, now one of its most popular degrees. Online RN to BSN programs allow students to continue working while pursu-ing a degree.Teaching tomorrow’s nurses As Linfi eld prepares to open its new nursing campus, methods to shape the next generation of nurses will continue to evolve with a focus on collaborative learning and real world issues, says Kim Jones, dean of nursing at Linfi eld.   One change features “fl ipped classrooms” where stu-dents learn content online before class, and spend class time discussing and solving problems. Nursing education is also moving toward problem-based learning, where students react to patient scenarios, and active learning classrooms featuring moveable seating, digital whiteboards and mobile devices.  “Linfi eld’s new nursing campus will give us the fl exibility to continue adapting to the needs of educating nurses well into the future,” says Jones.– Christian Feuersteinlinfi eld.edu/spring-2019-videos1Portland International AirportPORTLANDSpr ing  2019    |    L i n f i e l d  Magaz ine  -  36Linfield alumni are eligible for a 20% discount on one online class a year, through the Online and Continuing Education  Program. Give your career a boost with a certificate or another degree, or just take a class for fun.linfield.edu/returntolearnHey,  Wildcats: Return to learn!When we all give, students thrive.#LinfieldGivesMAY 1MAY 1MAY 1MAY 1MAY 1MAY 1MAY 1MAY 1MAY 1

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