Statement By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Practical Nurse Training,
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OCR Page 1 of 10PRACTICAL NURSE TRAINING
Statement by Earl J. McGrath; U. S. Commissioner of Education,
Before Subcommittee on Public Health and Science
of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
on Title I, Part B, H.R. 4312, 4313, and 3894
I am Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education. I wel-
come the opportunity to appear before this Subcommittee to discuss
the provisions of House bills 4312, 4313, and 3894 insofar as they
deal with the training of practical nurses. While such a training
program must quite properly be considered as an integral part of a
total program for the training of health personnel, I shall necessarily
limit my remarks, and shall not undertake to discuss all the provisions
of. these bills as they pertain to the education of other types of
health personnel.
The Need for an Expanded Program for Training Practical Nurses
The Public Health Service has estimated that 276,500 practical
nurses will be needed in the noxt ten years; that at present we are
training for the Nation as a whole only about 2,000 a year. There is
thus an increasingly pressing need at the present time for practical
nurses to serve in hospitals of all types, in homes for the agod, in
industrial plants, as assistants to visiting nurses and public health
nurses, and in private homos.
The roalization of the important part that the practical nurse
should play in the provision of moro adequate health services for the
American poople is of comparatively recent origin. It springs in some
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