RNs ) on the wards , and they were licensed as practical nurses (LPNs , working under the supervision of RNs . As hospitals and medical care grew more specialized , services like intensive care , cardiac care , burn units , and dialysis spawned new nursing specialties . Nursing leaders , long committed to college education for nurses , intensified the campaign to raise standards and to remove nursing education from the control of the hospitals . The Brown report , a 1948 assessment of the present and future of nursing , recommended...











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