Carinus Nursing College : An Historical Study Of Nursing Education And Management Using The General Systems Approach, 1947 1987.

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this dissertation is to research aspects of the historical

development of Nursing F..ducation and Nursing Management at the

Carinus Nursing College from 1949 to 1987; to determine and explain

how the College has adapted and coped with historical change and to

determine whether proposals for the future can be made.

Research has been done by applying the general systems theory and by

using the standard methods of historical analysis. Data has been collected

by means of oral history, literature search and documentation.

The variables isolated are the College as a system; the government or

influential supersystems; resources such as financial, personnel and

students and material inputs; and throughput or processing the work

in the output, which leads to the professional nurse. The models

used are Bucheles' organizational system, Sharma's flow chart• pattern,

Mintzberg's parts of organizational systems, and power flows and as

shown in Emery, Feibleman and Friends relations and rules of interaction

in systems thinking.

Parsons' "imperatives of maintenance of a system" as well as Alvin Toffler's

"second and third wave phenomena as responses to change" were two

further models that were used. By using Robert Buchele's model, the

work is divided into four parts:-

i) the College as a system

ii) the supersystems

iii) the resources

iv) the throughput or processing.

A futher design that emerged was that two eras could be distinguished,

within which three historical phases:- F.a.rly, Middle and Late are

developed.