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North Carolina League for Nursing News

Volume 10 (1962)

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C O N T E N T S

P a g e

Pres ident 's M e s s a g e 1

Tenth Annual Convention Highlights 2

The Board Meets 5

People . P r o g r a m s , P laces 11

Meetings 14

News from National 16

Repor ters : M i s s El izabeth Stanley, Raleigh

M r s . Edith B . Chance, Fayettevi l le

M r s . Jean T. L a s s i t e r , El izabeth City

M i s s M y r a Maxwel l , Wi l son

M r s . Bobbie Coley, Winston-Salem

M i s s Agnes Campbel l , Winston-Sa lem

M i s s Sarah W. Korn, Greensboro

M i s s Ethel Faye Burton, Charlotte

M i s s Annie H. Robinson, Gastonia

M r s . Elizabeth H. Stallings, Rutherfordton

M i s s Joyce Crane, Durham

M r s . C h e r r y Parker , Chapel Hill

M r s . Annie Mots inger , Chapel Hill

M i s s M a r g a r e t C. Johnson, Chapel Hill

M i s s Rebecca Hil l , Chapel Hill

North Carol ina League for Nursing N E W S

M i s s Laura S. B r e e s e , Editor

Gaston County Health Department

Gastonia, North Carol ina

Published in Gastonia, North Carol ina

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

T i m e marches on! The North Carolina League for Nursing marches on! This year we ce lebra te the Tenth Anniversary of the League s ince its r e organization under the new structure in 1952.

In the decade following this re-organizat ion the North Carolina League for Nursing has established as its three pr imary objec t ives the understanding of its function, the establishment of its p rograms and the clar i f icat ion of its r o l e . The North Carolina League for Nursing has made much p r o g r e s s in attaining these object ives and goa ls . Membersh ip has r isen, and p rograms and counci ls have been established. During the latter part of January the North Carolina League for Nursing took the leadership ro le in the formation of a North Carolina Health Careers Assoc ia t ion .

Membersh ip , although not yet up to its potential, has grown from 2 11 to 464. The f o r m e r figure included 194 nurses and 17 non-nurses , while the latter figure represents 411 nurses and 53 non-nurses plus agency member sh ip .

Aside from the p rograms and act ivi t ies that you have attended over the past ten years which have been sponsored or c o - s p o n s o r e d by the League, our annual conventions have been stimulating, revital izing and imaginative. During the previous years our p rograms have emphasized better nursing ca re through "Concer ted Act ion for the Improvement of Nursing in North Carol ina" (1953); " P r o g r e s s Toward Better Health" (1955); " In - se rv ice Education, A Continium" (1956); "Education for Leadersh ip" (1958); "Synthesizing Patient Care" (1961).

In addition to growth in membersh ip , interesting and dynamic p rog rams , last year we witnessed the excellent per formance of the Medica l -Surg ica l Council , the Psychia t r ic Council and the Maternal and Child Health Council .

This year we concentrate on "Creat ivi ty--Pathway to P r o g r e s s " . Nurses must be creat ive as well as profess ional . Many of us may feel that creat ivi ty does not lie within the nurse ' s field of operation, so a definition of creat ivi ty as it relates to the nursing profess ion is in o rde r . Creativity may be defined as that quality which gives the nurse the ability and imagination to pe rce ive in a given situation all the poss ib i l i t ies by which she may make a person m o r e comfor tab le , m o r e at ease in both mind and body. Creativity must exist if the nursing profess ion is to meet the basic human needs of those in its c a r e . We have a full real izat ion that our p rofess ion cannot stand sti l l . "We have made much p r o g r e s s , but we must make still m o r e if we are to keep pace in an ever -changing wor ld .

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TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS

THEME: CREATIVITY: PATHWAY TO PROGRESS

D A T E : March 14-16, 1962

P L A C E : Jack Tar Durham Hotel Durham, North Carolina

'Wednesday, March 14, 1962

9:30 A. M.

2:00 P . M .

7:00 P . M .

Co-Ordinating Council - Wedgewood R o o m Miss Atha Howell , Pres ident , North Carolina State Nurses ' Assoc ia t ion , Pres id ing

Board Meetings

North Carol ina State Nurses ' Assoc ia t ion Wedgewood R o o m Miss Atha Howell , President , Pres id ing

North Carolina League for Nursing Universi ty Ba l l room #1

Miss Agnes Campbell , President , Pres iding

Board Meeting

North Carolina Student Nurses ' Assoc ia t ion Wedgewood Room Miss Sylvia Vincent, Pres ident , Pres id ing

Thursday, March 15, 1962

8:00-12 Noon Regis t ra t ion - Lobby

9:00-10:30 A. M. Opening Business Sess ion - University Ba l l room Miss Agnes Campbell , President , Pres id ing

President , North Carolina State Nurses ' Assoc ia t ion

President , Distr ic t #11, North Carolina State Nurses ' Assoc ia t ion

President , North Carol ina Student Nurses ' Assoc ia t ion

Report of the Pres ident

Report of the Secretary-

Report of the T r e a s u r e r

Report of the Standing C o m m i t t e e

Report of Divis ions

Report of Coordinating Council

1 0 : 3 0 - 1 1 : 0 0 A . M . Coffee Break Mezzanine

1 1 : 0 0 - 1 2 Noon Keynote A d d r e s s - Univers i ty Ba l l room

1 2 : 1 5 - 2 : 1 5 P . M .

Speaker: M r s . Luci le Petry Leone

Chief Nurse Off icer , US Public Health

Service

Pres ident , National League for Nursing

Luncheon - Washington Duke Ba l l room

Cost - $ 2 . 6 0

Speaker: M r s . F r a n c e s G r a y Patton

Author: Good Morning, M i s s Dove

Teacher : Creat ive Writ ing, Univers i ty

of North Carol ina

2 : 3 0 - 3 : 3 0 P . M . Genera l P r o g r a m Meet ing - Univers i ty Ba l l room

Sponsored by North Carol ina League for Nursing

Commit t ee on Health Affa irs

Topic: Reports from the North Carol ina Health

C a r e e r s Congress

3 : 3 0 - 5 : 3 0 P . M . Council P r o g r a m s

Council on Medica l -Surg ica l Nursing

M i s s Rebecca Hil l , Chairman, Pres id ing

Univers i ty Ba l l room #1

Bus iness Meet ing and P r o g r a m

Speaker: M i s s Ruby W i l s o n , Ass i s tant P r o f e s s o r

Duke Universi ty School of Nursing

Council on Psychiatr ic and Mental Health Nursing

M i s s Betty Sue Johnson, Chairman, Pres iding

Univers i ty Ba l l room #2

Business Meeting and P r o g r a m

Speaker: M i s s A l i ce Robinson, D irec tor of

Nursing Education, Vermont State

Hospital , Waterbury , V e r m o n t

Council on Maternal and Child Health Nursing

M i s s Dorothy Grant, Chairman, Pres id ing

Wedgewood Room

Bus iness Meet ing and P r o g r a m

Speaker: D r . Sidney Chipman, MD

P r o f e s s o r of Maternal and Child Health

Universi ty of North Carol ina

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4 : 0 0 - 6 : 0 0 P . M . Voting - Lobby

Friday, March 16, 1962

8 :00- 10:00 A. M. Registration

8 :30-9 :30 A . M .

9 :00-10:30 A . M .

Voting - Lobby

Division Meetings

Joint Program Meeting - University Bal lroom #2

Speaker: M i s s Evelyn Zetter, Director of

Department of Hospital Nursing,

National League for Nursing

"Each Nurse's Responsibility for

Creativity" Topic:

Business Meetings (following program)

Division of Nursing Education - M r s . Helen

Mi l l er , Chairman, Presiding - Wedgewood Room

Division of Nursing Service - M i s s Janet Campbell ,

Chairman, Presiding - University Ballroom #2

10:30-10:45 A . M . Coffee Break - Mezzanine

10:45-12 Noon General Program Meeting - University Bal lroom #2

Tenth Anniversary Celebration of N C L N "A Decade of P r o g r e s s "

Speakers: M r s . Edith P. Brocker , Ass is tant Dean

Duke University School of Nursing

Durham, North Carolina

M r s . Mary K. Kneedler, Chief

Public Health Nursing Section

North Carolina State Board of Health

12:00-1:00 P. M. Final Business Session - University Bal lroom #1

M i s s Agnes Campbell , President, Presiding

Report of Division Meetings Report of Councils Report of Te l l er s

2:00 P. M . Post-Convention Board Meeting - Wedgewood Room

Registration Fees One Day Full Convention

M e m b e r s $ 2 . 0 0 $ 3 . 0 0

N o n - m e m b e r s $ 3 . 0 0 J5. 00 Students F R E E

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r H E B O A R D M E E T S .

O n D e c e m b e r 14 , 1 9 6 1 , N o r t h C a r o l i n a S ta te B o a r d o f H e a l t h ,

R a l e i g h , N o r t h C a r o l i n a .

D i v i s i o n R e p o r t s :

- - N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n - M r s . H e l e n M i l l e r , C h a i r m

H o u s e M o t h e r s ' C o n f e r e n c e - T h e N o r t h C a r o l i n a B o a r d

o f N u r s e R e g i s t r a t i o n a n d N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n , t h r o u g h

t h e i r N e w s l e t t e r , u r g e d a g a i n that h o u s e m o t h e r s s e e k

m e m b e r s h i p i n the L e a g u e . I t w a s f u r t h e r s u g g e s t e d

that t h e L e a g u e P r e s i d e n t s e n d a l e t t e r t o a l l the h o u s e

m o t h e r s u r g i n g m e m b e r s h i p i n the L e a g u e a n d t o g e t

t h e i r r e a c t i o n s o r s u g g e s t i o n s o n the p o s s i b i l i t y o f a

w o r k s h o p i n 1 9 6 2 .

W o r k s h o p i n T e s t C o n s t r u c t i o n i s i n the p l a n n i n g . T h i s

w o r k s h o p w i l l b e c o - s p o n s o r e d b y the L e a g u e a n d t h e

N o r t h C a r o l i n a B o a r d o f N u r s e R e g i s t r a t i o n a n d N u r s i n g

E d u c a t i o n .

D a t e : A p r i l 9 - 1 0 , 1 9 6 2

P l a c e : R e x H o s p i t a l , R a l e i g h

R e g i s t r a t i o n : $ 3 . 0 0

9 ^ a R e g i s t r a n t s w i l l b e l i m i t e d t o 8 0 a n d s e l e c t e d f r o m

D i p l o m a P r o g r a m s

L i c e n s e d P r a c t i c a l N u r s e P r o g r a m s

A s s o c i a t e D e g r e e P r o g r a m s

C o l l e g i a t e S c h o o l s

A f f i l i a t i n g S c h o o l s

N o r t h C a r o l i n a C o l l e g e

- - N u r s i n g S e r v i c e

W o r k s h o p - R e s p o n s i b i l i t y o f N u r s i n g S e r v i c e i n v o / /

P r e p a r a t i o n o f P e r s o n n e l t o A c c e p t R o l e s

C h a i r m a n - M r s . L e e S t e e l e , W a s h i n g t o n

T a r g e t f o r M e e t i n g - M a y 1 9 6 2

C o - s p o n s o r e d b y D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n

D i s a s t e r N u r s i n g - J a n e t C a m p b e l l , C h a i r m a n

- - S a l a r y a v a i l a b l e f o r n u r s e - c o n s u l t a n t t h r o u g h

e n d o f 1 9 6 1 - 6 2 f i s c a l y e a r .

- - A l a m a n c e C o u n t y h a s a g r e e d t o s e r v e a s a p i l o t

a r e a .

- - S u f f i c i e n t m a t e r i a l s a r e a v a i l a b l e f o r c o n t e n t

d e v e l o p m e n t o f a 3 0 h o u r c o u r s e t o c o v e r

--Expanded functions training. - -Nurs ing responsibilities in civil defense

emergency hospital. - -Methods of rapid teaching techniques.

- - N e e d a committee to help develop content for this

course . Anyone interested contact

M i s s Janet Campbell Public Health Nursing State Board of Health Raleigh, North Carolina

Committee Reports:

- -Finance - M r . R. H. Graham, Chairman

N C L N Report of Treasurer - Jan. 1, 1961-Dec . 7, 1961

Balance - Checking Account - Jan. 1, 1961

Receipts

January 1, 1961 - December 7, 1961

Membership Dues 1961

Membership Dues 1962

Agency M e m b e r s 1961

Sustaining M e m b e r s 1961

Annual Convention

Exhibits - Annual Convention

Gifts - Allstate Ins. Co.

Workshop

Miscel laneous Cash

Total to Account For:

Disbursements - January 1, 1961 - December 7, 1961 N L N Dues Administration

2 0 6 0 . 0 0

2 1 9 5 . 0 0

2 1 0 . 0 0

4 7 . 65

3 7 5 . 0 0

20 . 00

3 5 . 7 1

2 0 . 86

2 . 4 0

2 1 3 5 . 0 0

Headquarters 342 . 14

Supplies 83 . 49 Postage & P . O . Box Rent 8 5 . 00 Secretary 4 1 1 . 02 Income Tax 63 . 60 F I C A 24 . 76

Monorarium (Treasurer ) 200 . 00 Auditing, Bonding & Safety

Box Rent 4 6 . 90 Newsletter 216 . 09 Annual Convention 4 4 2 . 82

Delegate - N L N Convention 175. 00 Flowers 9. 46

2 7 9 7 . 8 6

4 9 6 6 . 6 2

7 7 6 4 . 4 8

2 1 0 0 . 2 8

Education

Division of Nursing Service

Division of Nursing Education 2 . 00

2 . 30 4 . 30

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Commit tees Caree r s Membersh ip Special P ro jec t Public Relations

Councils Maternal and Child Health Medica l -Surg ica l Psychia t r ic and Mental Health

Dues to N. C. Health Council Dues - Honorary Member

428 .21 26. 84

366.88 5. 86

8. 00 2. 00

37. 00 10. 00

5. 00

Total Accounted F o r :

Bank Balance - Dec . 7, 1961

Total Bank Balance & Disbursements

Budget i tems d i scussed :

- -Future plans might include a paid s ec r e t a ry - t r ea su re r . - - T h e poss ibi l i ty of incoming off icers project ing expenditures

rather than outgoing o f f i ce r s . - - D i v i s i o n steering commit tee decide how money budgeted

to that divis ion is spent as long as it is within the realm of accepted po l i cy .

- -Expendi tures of of f icers re imbursable by League.

7764.48

- - M e m b e r s h i p Commit tee - Miss Rose Forg ione report ing for

Miss Evelyn P e r r y

Report of Membersh ip for 1961

Total M e m b e r s 466

Profess iona l Nurse Prac t ica l Nurse All ied Non-Nurse Agency

Departm ents Hospital Public Health Nursing Diploma and Assoc i a t e Degree Baccalaureate & Higher Degree

Councils Prac t ica l Nursing Occupational Health Maternal and Child Health Psychia t r ic and Mental Health Medica l -Surg ica l

New M e m b e r s Renewals

105 361

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North Carolina League for Nursing has the second largest number of individual members - - to ta l l ing 4 6 6 - -in the Southeast. Maryland is first with 713 individual m e m b e r s .

- -Pub l i c Relations Commit tee - Miss Laura Bree se , Chairman

Since assuming editorship of the News, the following changes have been made:

- -Addres sog raph system of mail ing. - -Non-prof i t bulk mail ing. This will save about

$15 the first year and $25 for each following yea in mailing cos t .

- -Style of Newsletter - -Masthead changed to conform with design

on the stationery. - - B y using booklet or pamphlet style and

reducing number of s tenci ls . In this way, it is poss ib le to print two pages per stencil instead of one.

- - M o r e i l lustrat ions.

P lease feel free to comment , c r i t i c i ze or suggest . And do send NEWS!

Council Repor t s :

- -Med ica l -Surg ica l Council - Miss R e b e c c a Hill, Chairman

•The Medica l -Surg ica l Council sponsored a workshop on November 30, 1961, at the Wake County Memor i a l Hospital. The workshop was centered around the teaching of Medica l -Surg ica l Nursing in the c l in ical area, in the c l a s s r o o m , individual teaching, and the integration of nutrition.

The workshop seemed to be successful and to meet a need. There were quite a few young instructors there who were new in teaching. Attendance numbered 93 which included 42 n o n - m e m b e r s . Non-member s were charged $3 registrat ion fee and we took in $126 (minus $3 .89 for lunches for leaders ) which will be deposited with the t reasurer ($122. 11).

Evaluations of the workshop by the participants were good. They were highly compl imentary of the group leade r s . The chief complaint was lack of t ime.

The steering commit tee wishes to express appreciat ion to Mary McRee and her commit tee for planning the work shop, to M r s . Eva Warren for her introductory and con cluding talks; to Jess ie Kise r , Sally Honeycutt, Ruby Wilson, Em Bevis for leading the d i scuss ions ; and to Miss Jean Riddle and the Wake County Hospital staff for being hos t e s ses .

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- - T h e Medica l -Surg ica l Subcouncil met January 17, 1962, at the Rowan Memor ia l Hospital in Salisbury to plan the work of the year . Further developments will be announced later.

-Maternal and Child Health Council - Miss Dorothy C. Grant, Chairman

- - A n initial report of the work project questionnaire is being sent to each of the diploma schools of nursing.

A ros te r of instructors in pediatr ics and obste t r ics is being sent to each school of nursing for co r r ec t i ons and additions.

We, the m e m b e r s of the Council , studying the responses to the quest ionnaire, extend our s incere appreciat ion to all personnel in the state who participated in group d iscuss ions and/or answered the quest ionnaires .

We hope we will see and hear from new as well as familiar peoples interested in mothers and children

HEALTH CAREERS CONGRESS

' Highlights . . . .

North Carol ina ' s first Health Career Congress convened January 26th-27th at the Rober t E. Lee Hotel in Winston-Salem. More than 400 high school students, counse lo r s , advisors and health ca ree r people were in attendance. The students, representing 50 high schools over the state, toured 12 loca l health and vocational cen te rs . After the tours , workshops were held for counse lo rs and faculty advisors of clubs and students. Fourteen profess ional organizations had exhibits and personnel present to famil iar ize the students with opportunities in the health f ield. Doc to r s , nurses , medical r e co rd l ibrar ians , dieticians, pharmacis ts , hospital adminis t ra tors , physical and occupational therapists , medical technologis ts , X - r a y technicians, mental health worke r s , dentists and veterinarians were represented.

Mr . Rodney Austin, R. J. Reynolds representat ive, in his we lcoming address said:

". . . . There has never been another statewide Health Caree r s Congress held anywhere else in the United States.

". . . . In helping to sponsor this Congress , the R. J. Reynolds T o b a c c o Company is proud to join with medical and health groups, technical associa t ions and others in helping develop an interest of our state 's young people in health c a r e e r s and related p ro fess ions . . . .

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". . . . We have in this country the highest ratio of available medica l care and the best medical faci l i t ies found anywhere in the wor ld . Yet there remains a shortage of trained profess ional people to ca r ry them on. We consider our people to be among the healthiest on earth, but the p rob lems of physical , mental and emotional i l lness rank near the top of all our p rob lems as a people and Nation. . . .

". . . . P rob l ems of health--mental , physical and emotional - - a r e t remendously important. They are the p rob lems of people in the most d i rec t and personal sense . We must try to control this great and comple te waste of human effort and l ives in some effective way, and many m o r e people such as you are needed to do it. "

The Rev. Kenneth Goodson, Centenary Methodist Church, Winston Salem, was the principal speaker at the banquet. He said that health ca r ee r s "aren't j o b s . If you look at it this way, don't

J fool with it. " He further stated that youngsters wanting to get into "the thrilling, intriguing struggle against mankind's hurts" and those seeking the "only real compensat ion these c a r e e r s offer-- turning s o r r o w into gladness and pain into health" would find a home in health c a r e e r s .

North Carolina Assoc ia t ion of Health Careers Clubs organized . . . .

The purpose of the associa t ion will be to interest junior and senior high school students in ca ree r s in medic ine and related health f ie lds .

Mr . Reuben Graham, assistant administrator of Baptist Hospital and in charge of loca l arrangements for the Congress , pointed out that there are some 68 c a r e e r s in the field of health which students of high school age know little or nothing about. For example, few know what is involved in training to b e c o m e an occupational therapist, therapeutic dietician, health statistician or dental hygienist . And shortages exist in all of these f ie lds .

The new state off icers after an all night campaign were e lec ted .

Nancy Carr President Lee Edwards High School Ashevi l le

Carole Earnhardt 1st V i c e Pres ident Northwest High School Wins ton-Salem

Eddie Bigham 2nd Vice President B e s s e m e r High School Greensbo ro

Mary Mitchell Secre tary R. J. Reynolds High School Wins ton-Sal em

Jenny Linvil le Treasure r Gray High School Wins ton-Sal em

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A f t e r t h e i r e l e c t i o n the n e w o f f i c e r s m e t w i t h M i s s A g n e s

C a m p b e l l , p r e s i d e n t o f t he N . C . L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g ; M i s s

H e l e n P e e l e r , c o u n s e l o r f o r t h e N . C . S ta te N u r s e s A s s o c i

a t i o n ; M i s s R h o b i a T a y l o r , S o u t h e r n R e g i o n a l F i e l d C o n

s u l t a n t , C o m m i t t e e o n C a r e e r s , N a t i o n a l L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g ;

H . C . C r a n f o r d , p u b l i c r e l a t i o n s d i r e c t o r , N . C . H o s p i t a l

C a r e A s s o c i a t i o n ; a n d G e o r g e H a r r i s , d i r e c t o r o f f i e l d s e r v i c e

o f the D u k e E n d o w m e n t . A s s o c i a t i o n b y l a w s and p l a n s f o r the

y e a r w i l l b e a n n o u n c e d l a t e r .

I n a d d i t i o n t o s t a t e p r o f e s s i o n a l a s s o c i a t i o n s i n c l u d i n g the

N . C . L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g , s e v e r a l o r g a n i z a t i o n s h e l p e d t o

s p o n s o r the C o n g r e s s . T h e s e a r e : the A l l s t a t e F o u n d a t i o n ,

t he D u k e E n d o w m e n t , a n d the N a t i o n a l F o u n d a t i o n . R . J .

R e y n o l d s T o b a c c o C o . p r o v i d e d f i n a n c i a l a s s i s t a n c e f o r thej\ C o n g r e s s .

P E O P L E , P R O G R A M S , P L A C E § / l N N O R T H C A R O L I N A

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- - H a t s o f f t o D i s t r i c t 14 , N . C . S ta t e N u r s e s A s s o c i a t i o n !

T h e F a y e t t e v i l l e O b s e r v e r c a r r i e d p i c t u r e s a n d p u b l i c i t y

o n the c o m m e m o r a t i v e s t a m p s h o n o r i n g n u r s i n g . T h i s

p a p e r a l s o c a r r i e d p u b l i c i t y c o n c e r n i n g D i s t r i c t 1 4 ' s

p r o j e c t " C o o k i n g W i t h O u r C a p s O f f " , a c o o k b o o k c o m p i l e d

b y a c o m m i t t e e h e a d e d b y M r s . L o i s H i n e s , c h i e f n u r s e a t

the V e t e r a n s H o s p i t a l . P r o c e e d s f r o m s a l e s o f t h i s c o o k

b o o k w i l l b e u s e d t o a i d s t u d e n t n u r s e s .

- - M r s . H e l e n S c o t t j o i n e d the f a c u l t y o f W i l s o n S c h o o l o f

N u r s i n g o n J a n u a r y 2 , 1 9 6 2 , a s i n s t r u c t o r i n O b s t e t r i c s . S h e

i s a g r a d u a t e o f C a r o l i n a G e n e r a l H o s p i t a l i n W i l s o n , a n d

h a s h a d b o t h p r i v a t e d u t y a n d i n s t i t u t i o n a l e x p e r i e n c e .

- - M r s . K a t h r y n H a m m o n d a n d M r s . H e l e n S c o t t , i n s t r u c t o r s

a t t h e W i l s o n S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g , a r e e n r o l l e d a t A t l a n t i c

C h r i s t i a n C o l l e g e . M r s . H a m m o n d i s t a k i n g a c o u r s e i n

A d o l e s c e n t P s y c h o l o g y w h i c h i s a b i g h e l p b o t h p r o f e s s i o n a l l y

i n t h e t e a c h i n g o f P e d i a t r i c s a n d p e r s o n a l l y i n t h e m a n a g e

m e n t o f h e r o w n t e e n - a g e r s . M r s . S c o t t i s s t u d y i n g P h i l o s o p h y .

She w r o t e h e r t e r m p a p e r o n P h i l o s o p h y i n N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n

a n d w a s c o m m e n d e d b y h e r p r o f e s s o r f o r g i v i n g h i m m u c h

i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t t h e p r o f e s s i o n o f n u r s i n g . G o o d p u b l i c

r e l a t i o n s f o r n u r s i n g !

- - M y r a M a x w e l l , D i r e c t o r o f t h e W i l s o n S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g ,

a n d M r s . K a t h r y n H a m m o n d , I n s t r u c t o r a t t h e W i l s o n S c h o o l

o f N u r s i n g , w i t h M r s . S a r a h K i r b y a n d C a t h e r i n e B o s w e l l

f r o m N u r s i n g S e r v i c e , a t t e n d e d the I n s t i t u t e o n N u r s i n g i n

R a d i a t i o n i n t h e A t o m i c A g e h e l d a t t he U N C S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g

i n C h a p e l H i l l , J a n u a r y 3 0 , 1 9 6 2 .

- - M r s . C e c e l i a M a y o , i n s t r u c t o r a t W i l s o n S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g ,

and S t e l l a W i n s t e a d , N u r s i n g S e r v i c e D i r e c t o r o f W o o d a r d

H e r r i n g H o s p i t a l , a t t e n d e d the M e d i c a l - S u r g i c a l C o u n c i l

W o r k s h o p h e l d a t W a k e M e m o r i a l H o s p i t a l i n R a l e i g h o n

N o v e m b e r 3 0 , 1 9 6 1 .

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- - M r s . Doro thy Joyner , Admin i s t r a to r -Owner o f J o y n e r ' s

Nursing H o m e , Charlot te , N. C. , with M r s . Edith B. Chance of Fayet tev i l le , N . C , represen ted the N. C . A s s o c i a t i o n of Nursing Homes and Homes for the Aged at a Regional Meet ing in B i rmingham, Alabama, February 5th and 6th, 1962.

- - T h e A d v i s o r y Board to N. C. State Boa rd of Health, Nursing Home Sect ion, m et in Rale igh, N. C, on January 25, 1962. This group r e c o m m e n d e d to the State Boa rd of Health "that by January 1, 1963, all Nursing Homes have a R e g i s t e r e d Nurse in superv i s ion of nursing s e r v i c e with a R e g i s t e r e d Nurse or L i c e n s e d P rac t i ca l Nurse around the c l o c k plus adequate personnel for s e r v i c e n e e d e d . "

- -Whi spe r ing Pines Nursing Home is sending a r e g i s t e r e d nurse and three l i censed p rac t i ca l nurses to the W o r k s h o p - - N u r s i n g Care in Nursing H o m e s - - h e l d in Raleigh, Wake County Hospital This workshop is sponso red by the State Board of Health and the UNC School of Nurs ing.

Rale igh, Durham, Chapel Hill

- - M i s s Car r i e M. Spurgeon, R. N. , is the new execut ive s e c r e t a r y to the North Caro l ina Board of Nurse Regis t ra t ion and Nursing Educat ion. She jo ined the staff on January 1st acco rd ing to informat ion r e l e a s e d by the B o a r d ' s cha i rman, M r s . P r i s c i l l a Ba l lance , R. N. , of R o c k y Mount.

A native of North Carol ina , Miss Spurgeon r e c e i v e d a b a c h e l o r ' s d e g r e e f rom T e a c h e r s Co l l ege , Columbia Universi ty , and a m a s t e r ' s d e g r e e f rom the Univers i ty of Ch icago . She is a graduate of E m o r y Univers i ty Hospital School of Nursing in Atlanta.

F o r the last three y e a r s , she has s e r v e d as educational consultant for the State Boa rd of Nursing for South Caro l ina . P r i o r to that, Mi s s Spurgeon held a s imi l a r pos i t ion in G e o r g i a and was for s o m e t ime execut ive d i r e c t o r for the Louis iana State Board of Nurse E x a m i n e r s .

Be fo re entering State Board work , she was employed in nursing s e r v i c e and education at E m o r y , Be l l evue and New Haven Hospi ta l s . While at New Haven, she held an appointment as ins t ructor in the Yale Univers i ty School of Nurs ing.

Mi s s Spurgeon r ep l ace s M i s s Vivian M. Culver who r e s igned to take a pos i t ion with the F lo r ida State Board of Nurs ing.

- - D r . Elizabeth L. K e m b l e , Dean of the Univers i ty of North Carol ina School of Nursing at Chapel Hill, has r e c e i v e d w o r d that the National League for Nurs ing ' s Col leg ia te Board of Review has voted to grant continuing accred i ta t ion to the nursing s c h o o l ' s bacca laurea te p r o g r a m which includes prepara t ion in public health nursing and which p r o v i d e s fo r the adm i s s ion of qualif ied r eg i s t e r ed n u r s e s .

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The four -year col legiate program was the f irst such program

in North Carol ina to be given accreditation by the National

League for Nursing when it rece ived its initial approval in

1955 . The Board's current action is based upon a fol low-up

of the program which is required every five y e a r s .

The N L N Board a l so voted to grant initial accreditat ion to

the UNC School of Nurs ing 's M a s t e r ' s p r o g r a m .

D r . Virginia Stone and M i s s Rebecca Hill are conducting

a ser i e s of workshops and individual consultation in improving

nursing care in nursing h o m e s . This project is being con

ducted by the University of North Carolina School of Nursing

and sponsored by the State Board of Health. It is a part of

the Board of Health's general program of supervis ing and

upgrading the state's nursing home c a r e .

One of these workshops is being conducted in Wins ton-Sa lem

in the period from January 4th to F e b r u a r y 23rd , 1962, with

duplicate sess ions each Thursday from 7 - 9 P . M . and each

Fr iday from 2 - 4 P . M . The other is held in Raleigh each

Tuesday from 2 - 4 P . M . starting January 30th to M a r c h 20th,

1962 .

The State Supervisors Annual Conference (Public Hea-lth

Nursing) met in Chapel Hill during the f irst week in D e c e m b e r

1961 to discuss nursing trends, the community as our patient

and the use of stat ist ical data.

North Carol ina's f irst school of nursing is f irst respondent

to the flyer from N C L N ' s Commit t ee on His tor ica l Source

Mater ia l s in Nursing, according to a report f rom the commit tee

chairman. Among the s evera l i tems l i s ted by Rex Hospital 's

d irector of nursing are:

T H E H I S T O R Y O F R E X H O S P I T A L A N D R E X

H O S P I T A L S C H O O L OF NURSING (Pamphlet)

FIRST NURSING S C H O O L A N N U A L

FIRST Y E A R NURSING by Minnie Goodnow (1917)

The Rex Hospital School of Nurs ing was establ ished in 1894 .

W A N T E D for the Univers i ty of North Carol ina School of

Nursing l ibrary:

N L N E A N N U A L R E P O R T S - A l l i s sues pr ior to 1927

N L N E - T H E C U R R I C U L U M F O R S C H O O L S O F

NURSING - 1927 Edition

P U B L I C H E A L T H NURSING - A l l i s sues pr ior to

1938; June and October 1939; July 1948; aloo Voluirm

4 J 9 ^ ^ , nets, 1 anrl Z (Jan, and M a r c h ) ; Vo lume ^—

•1355—no 4; Vo lume 6, 1958, no, 1; V o l u m e 7, 1959^

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In the Piedmont.

-Miss Elizabeth White, fo rmer d i rec tor of nursing at Charlotte Memor ia l Hospital, is the new d i rec tor of nursing s e r v i c e , Mound Park Hospital, St. Pe tersburg , F lor ida .

A native of Newberry , S. C. , Miss White is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Bal t imore , with a B . S . degree from Newberry Col lege . She began her nursing c a r e e r in the pediatr ics department of Johns Hopkins Hospital, then became assistant night superv isor at Duke Hospital in Durham, N. C. During World War II, she was chief nurse with the Duke unit of the 65th General Hospital, serving the 8th Air F o r c e in England.

On her return to this country, she took graduate work at the University of Chicago, then spent two years as assistant to the superintendent of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Greenvi l le , S. C.

For the next 13 years she was d i rec tor of nursing at the Charlotte Memor ia l Hospital . In July of 1961, six months before she left, the Charlotte Memor ia l Hospital School of Nursing r ece ived full accredi tat ion by the National League for Nursing. There are now three diploma schoo l s of nursing with full accredi tat ion in North Carol ina: Watts Hospital in Durham which has been accred i ted for severa l yea r s ; N. C. Baptist Hospital fully accred i ted in January 1961; and the Charlotte Memor ia l Hospital.

Miss White has made many contributions to nurses and nursing in North Carol ina. We shall all mi s s her ve ry much and we want to wish her every s u c c e s s in her new posi t ion.

- M r s . Annie Higgins, Acting Di rec t r e s s of Nurses at Moses H. Cone Memor ia l Hospital, attended the Institute on Nursing Serv ice sponsored by the A m e r i c a n Hospital Assoc ia t ion in Memphis .

- M r s . Betty El ler , Guilford County Health Department, attended the Amer i can Public Health Assoc ia t ion meeting in Detroit , Michigan.

-The new Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro has opened; is in full swing and very busy. The fourth f loor will open in Apr i l .

MEETINGS

^ Ins t i t u t e on P r o b l e m s of Administrat ion in Schools of Nursing f rom March 19-23, 1962, at UNC School of Nursing. Case method will be used in presenting and discussing content. Discussants : Dr . Genevieve Bixler and Dr . Elois Fields

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Institute on Curr iculum Development is tentatively planned pending t rameeship grant at the UNC School of Nursing, Apr i l 30-May 4, 1962. To be d i scussed : Philosophy, Objec t ives , Evaluation of students before admiss ion plus p rogram and test construct ion. M r s . Elinor Dahlke, discussant

Workshop on Test Construction, Apr i l 9 and 10, 1962, at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. Under the joint sponsorship of the N. C League for Nursing and the N. C. Board of Nursing Registrat ion and Nursing Education.

Leadership Training Session, Saturday, March 17, 1962, 9:30 A . M . to 4:30 P . M . , at the Jack Tar Hotel, Durham. Sponsored by the N. C. League for Nursing and will be conducted by Miss Loudene Grady, Assistant Di rec to r of NLN Serv ices to State Leagues . Purpose : To strengthen understanding and implementat ion of NLN philosophy. There is no registrat ion fee .

Institute on Nursing Home Administrat ion - How to bring the nursing home into the total health p rogram of the community -March 27-29, 1962. Conducted by the Amer i can Hospital A s s o c i ation at the Sevil le Hotel, Miami Beach, F lor ida . Registrat ion Fee $40 .00 , payable to AHA, 840 North Lake Shore Dr ive , Chicago 1 1, Illinois .

Courses and Institutes sponsored by the UNC School of Nursing and the Extension Divis ion, University of North Carol ina. F o r further information write to Extension Divis ion, UNC, Chapel Hill.

- -Psych i a t r i c Nursing Institute, May 9, 1962 Top ic : The changing ro le of the nurse in psychia t r ic

care p r o g r a m s .

- -P sych i a t r i c Nursing Course , June 11-July 6, 1962, d i rec ted by M r s . Evangeline Poulos , Assoc i a t e P r o f e s so r of Nursing. Offered to qualified graduate p r o fessional nurses and concerns a basic understanding of the theory and prac t ice of dynamic psychiat r ic nursing and of the ro le of the nurse in the psychiatr ic ca re p r o g r a m s . This cou r se offers three semes te r hours of credi t and will be given at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh.

- -Nurs ing Care of the Patient with Long T e r m I l lness , June 11-July 6, 1962, d i rec ted by Janis H. David, Assistant P r o f e s s o r of Nursing, University of North Carol ina. Offered to qualified graduate reg is te red nurses . F o c u s : The profess ional nurse ' s d i rec t relationship to patients; contributing to the nurse ' s skill in team leadership and helping auxiliary personnel to give better patient c a r e .

Conventions and Annual Meetings

- - N . C. League for Nursing Tenth Annual Convention, March 14-16, 1962, Jack Tar Hotel, Durham, N. C.

- - N . C. Tubercu los i s Assoc ia t ion Annual Meeting, Durham, N. C. , Apr i l 24-25 , 1962

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- - S o u t h e r n B r a n c h , A m e r i c a n P u b l i c H e a l t h A s s o c i a t i o n ,

A n n u a l M e e t i n g , M a y 2 - 4 , 1 9 6 2 , R o a n o k e , V i r g i n i a

- - A m e r i c a n N u r s e s A s s o c i a t i o n B i e n n i a l C o n v e n t i o n ,

M a y 4 - 1 8 , 1 9 6 2 , D e t r o i t , M i c h i g a n

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p r o g r a m i n t h e r e c r u i t m e n t o f s t u d e n t s f o r n u r s i n g c a r e e r s . T h e

F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e o f t h e L e a g u e h a s b e e n a s k e d t o e x p l o r e t h e

p o s s i b i l i t i e s o f e x t e n d i n g s u p p o r t f o r t h e c a r e e r s f i e l d s e r v i c e

p r o g r a m b e y o n d t e r m i n a t i o n o f N a t i o n a l F o u n d a t i o n g r a n t i n m i d

y e a r . F o r t h e i m m e d i a t e f u t u r e , t h e L e a g u e p l a n s t o i n t e n s i f y

i t s r e c r u i t m e n t e f f o r t s a t t h e j u n i o r h i g h s c h o o l l e v e l .

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t h e f i v e t y p e s o f e d u c a t i o n a l p r o g r a m s i n n u r s i n g - - p r a c t i c a l

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i s s u e d . T h i s b o o k l e t i s d e s i g n e d t o i n t e r p r e t t o n u r s e s a n d o t h e r s

t h e w a y s b y w h i c h s t u d e n t s o f n u r s i n g p r e p a r e f o r b e g i n n i n g a n d

h i g h e r l e v e l p o s i t i o n s . S i n g l e c o p i e s f r e e o n r e q u e s t f r o m N L N

h e a d q u a r t e r s .

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A p r i l 2 , 3 W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

A p r i l 5 , 6 S a n M a t e o , C a l i f o r n i a

A p r i l 1 2 , 1 3 M a d i s o n , W i s c o n s i n

A p r i l 1 6 , 1 7 O k l a h o m a C i t y

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o t h e r s t o e x p e d i t e t h e e x t e n s i o n o f n u r s i n g s e r v i c e s f o r t h e c a r e o f

t h e s i c k a t h o m e . C o n f e r e n c e r e g i s t r a t i o n i s b y i n v i t a t i o n .

T h e c o m m e m o r a t i v e n u r s i n g s t a m p c e l e b r a t e s t h e c e n t e n a r y o f t h e

N i g h t i n g a l e S c h o o l . T h e i s s u e o f t h i s s t a m p w a s t h e r e s u l t o f t h e

i n t e r e s t a n d e f f o r t s o f N L N ' s C o m m i t t e e o n H i s t o r i c a l S o u r c e M a t e r i a l s .

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w h i c h e n h a n c e s i t s v a l u e .

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The Boa rd Meets 7

P e o p l e , P r o g r a m s , P l a c e s 7

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News F r o m National 14

Edi tor ia l Board : M i s s Agnes Campbel l , Wins ton-Salem Mis s Sylvia R. Kige r , Wins ton-Salem M r s . Jean T. Lass i t e r , Elizabeth City M i s s Myra Maxwel l , Wi lson M r s . Edith Chance, Fayet tev i l le M i s s Annie Robinson , Gastonia M i s s Sarah W. Korn , G r e e n s b o r o M r s . Bobbie Coley , Wins ton-Sa lem M i s s Mary Copeland, Ashev i l l e M i s s Mary F r a n c i s , Oteen M r s . Dixie King, Raleigh M i s s Mi r i am Daughtry, Rale igh M r s . Este l le Mike l l , Durham M r s . Che r ry Pa rke r , P i t t sboro

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O u r t h e m e f o r t h e 1 9 6 2 C o n v e n t i o n w a s " C r e a t i v i t y - P a t h w a y t o P r o g r e s s " .

IWe c h o s e t h i s t h e m e b e c a u s e n u r s e s m u s t b e c r e a t i v e a s w e l l a s p r o f e s s i o n a l .

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u t w h e n w e t h i n k o f c r e a t i v i t y a s t ha t q u a l i t y w h i c h g i v e s t h e n u r s e t h e a b i l i t y

and i m a g i n a t i o n t o e a s e d i s c o m f o r t o r p a i n , h e l p r e l i e v e e m o t i o n a l s t r e s s , w e

r e a l i z e i t s s i g n i f i c a n c e t o n u r s i n g .

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t e e d s o f t h o s e i n i t s c a r e . W e h a v e a f u l l r e a l i z a t i o n tha t o u r p r o f e s s i o n c a n -

iot s t a n d s t i l l . W e h a v e m a d e m u c h p r o g r e s s , b u t w e m u s t m a k e s t i l l m o r e

f w e a r e t o k e e p p a c e i n a n e v e r - c h a n g i n g w o r l d .

N o w w e s h o u l d a s k t h e q u e s t i o n " W h a t ' s a h e a d f o r n u r s i n g ? " W e c a n n o t

i c c u r a t e l y p r e d i c t t h e f u t u r e . T h e o n l y t h i n g w e c a n s a y i s t h e r e w i l l b e a

: h a n g e . W e a r e u s i n g d r u g s t o d a y t ha t w e r e u n h e a r d o f w h e n t h e L e a g u e w a s

e - o r g a n i z e d i n 1 9 5 2 . W e h a v e e n t e r e d i n t o a n e r a o f s p e c i a l i z a t i o n . N o w w e

lu s t k n o w w h e r e t o f i n d n e c e s s a r y i n f o r m a t i o n a n d h o w t o e v a l u a t e tha t i n f o r

m a t i o n , r a t h e r t h a n h o w t o r e c i t e a m u l t i t u d e o f f a c t s .

T h e r e a r e n e w a p p r o a c h e s t o a n d d e v i c e s f o r t h e p r a c t i c e o f m e d i c i n e .

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Iv i l l a l w a y s b e n e e d e d t o d o t h i n g s f o r a n d w i t h p a t i e n t s , b u t t h e e m p h a s i s t o d a y

s b e i n g p l a c e d o n h e l p i n g t h e p a t i e n t , b e i n g w i t h t h e p a t i e n t , a n d h e l p i n g i n

ihe f a m i l y a s w e l l . N e w d i m e n s i o n s h a v e b e e n a d d e d t o n u r s i n g c a r e , b u t s t i l l -

( n o r e w i l l b e a d d e d i n t h e f u t u r e .

A n o t h e r c h a n g e w i l l c o m e a b o u t i n d e m a n d s f o r s e r v i c e . I n 1 9 2 8 t h e

l o m m i t t e e o n G r a d i n g S c h o o l s o f N u r s i n g m a d e t h e s t a t e m e n t tha t s c h o o l s s h o u l d

[ e v a l u a t e t h e p o s s i b i l i t i e s o f e m p l o y m e n t f o r n u r s e s a n d p r e p a r e o n l y t ha t n u m b e r ,

[ o w f o r t u n a t e w e w o u l d b e i n t h i s y e a r o f 1 9 6 2 i f o u r d e m a n d w e r e n o g r e a t e r

h a n t h e s u p p l y . A l t h o u g h t h e n u m b e r o f r e g i s t e r e d n u r s e s g o e s u p a n n u a l l y - -

lind t h i s i s p a r t l y d u e t o m a r r i e d n u r s e s r e t u r n i n g t o w o r k - - w e s t i l l n e e d n u r s e s ,

j iu rs e s , n u r s e s !

P r e - N u r s i n g G u i d a n c e a n d T e s t S e r v i c e h a v e h e l p e d t o b r i n g a n o t h e r c h a n g e

Into t h e n u r s i n g p r o f e s s i o n . N o l o n g e r a r e g i r l s w i t h p o o r g r a d e s b u t k i n d n e s s a n d

w i l l i n g n e s s r e c o m m e n d e d . A n e w c a l i b e r o f s t u d e n t w i t h g r e a t e r p o t e n t i a l i t i e s

o r s e r v i c e i s e m e r g i n g .

T h e m o d e r n n u r s i n g p r o f e s s i o n h a s a d v a n c e d f a r f r o m i t s b e g i n n i n g i n t h e

l i d d l e o f t h e 19 th c e n t u r y , a n d w e a r e b e i n g c h a l l e n g e d f r o m e v e r y s i d e i n a

: o n s t a n t l y c h a n g i n g w o r l d . F l o r e n c e N i g h t i n g a l e s a i d , " N o s y s t e m c a n e n d u r e

lat d o e s n o t m a r c h . " W e h a v e e n d u r e d b e c a u s e w e h a v e m a r c h e d . W e w i l l

t o n t i n u e t o e n d u r e o n l y i f w e g o f o r w a r d . W e m u s t u s e t h e p a s t a n d t h e p r e s e n t

s a s p r i n g b o a r d t o t h e f u t u r e - - h o w e v e r u n k n o w n a n d u n c e r t a i n . T O M O R R O W

B E L O N G S T O U S - W H A T W I L L W E M A K E O F I T ?

A g n e s C a m p b e l l , R . N .

P r e s i d e n t

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T E N T H A N N U A L , C O N V E N T I O N H I G H L I G H T S - M a r c h 1 4 - 1 6 , 1 9 6 2

" C r e a t i v i t y - P a t h w a y t o P r o g r e s s ! 1 1

O f f i c e r s , C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m e n and C o u n c i l C h a i r m e n - 1 9 6 2

P r e s i d e n t : M i s s A g n e s C a m p b e l l , 6 3 4 W . S e c o n d S t . ,

W i n s t o n - S a l e m , N . C .

1s t V i c e P r e s i d e n t : M r s . J e s s i e K i s e r , C a b a r r u s M e m o r i a

H o s p i t a l , C o n c o r d , N . C .

2nd V i c e P r e s i d e n t : M i s s M a r y M c R e e , 2 0 0 1 P a r k R o a d , # 1 \ A

C h a r l o t t e 3 , N . C .

S e c r e t a r y : M i s s S y l v i a K i g e r , 2 3 7 L o c k l a n d A v e . , W i n s t o n -

S a l e m , N . C .

T r e a s u r e r : M i s s R o s e F o r g i o n e , H - 1 2 W e s t o v e r P a r k A p t s . ,

D u r h a m , N . C .

B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s :

M i s s A . Sue K e r l e y , 2 2 1 3 Q u e e n St . , W i n s t o n - S a l e m , N . C .

M r . R e u b e n G r a h a m , N . C . B a p t i s t H o s p i t a l , W i n s t o n -

S a l e m , N . C .

M i s s J a n i s D a v i d , U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a S c h o o l

o f N u r s i n g , C h a p e l H i l l , N . C .

M i s s M e r e b B . M o s s m a n , W o m a n ' s C o l l e g e o f U n i v e r s i t y

o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a , G r e e n s b o r o , N . C .

D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n :

C h a i r m a n : M r s . H e l e n M i l l e r , B o x 6 2 8 , N . C . C o l l e g e ,

D u r h a m , N . C .

D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g S e r v i c e :

C h a i r m a n : M r s . J a n e t C a m p b e l l , N . C . S t a t e B o a r d o f

H e a l t h , R a l e i g h , N . C .

C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m e n :

F i n a n c e : M r . R e u b e n G r a h a m ( a b o v e )

C o n s t i t u t i o n and B y - L a w s : M r . G e o r g e H a r r i s , 1500 N . C .

N a t i o n a l B a n k B l d g . , C h a r l o t t e . N C

N o m i n a t i n g : V a c a n t

M e m b e r s h i p : M i s s E v e l y n P e r r y , S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g , E a s t

C a r o l i n a C o l l e g e , G r e e n v i l l e . N . C .

P u b l i c R e l a t i o n s : M i s s L a u r a B r e e s e , G a s t o n C o . H e a l t h

D e p t . , G a s t o n i a , N . C .

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Careers in Nursing: Vacant

Headquarters: Miss Rebecca Hill, Vil lage Apts . , Chapel Hill, N. C.

P rog ram Arrangements : Vacant

Historical Source Material Miss Margaret Johnson, 104 in Nursing: Jones St. , Chapel Hill, N. C.

Special P ro jec t s Design: Miss A. Sue Ker ley , 2213 Queen St. , Winston-Salem, N. C.

Liaison Commit tee M r s . Edith B r o c k e r , 1326 N. C. Hospital Assoc ia t ion : W e l c o m e Ci rc l e , Durham, N. C.

Interdivisional Commit tee :

Nursing Rehabilitation: M r s . Mary K. Kneedler , N. C. State

Board of Health, Raleigh, N. C.

Interdivisional Counci ls :

Maternal and Child Health Nursing: Vacant

Medical and Surgical Nursing: Miss R e b e c c a Hill (above)

Psychia t r ic and Mental Miss Betty Sue Johnson, 2204 Health Nursing: Erwin Road, Durham, N. C.

Keynoter Highlights:

- - "Crea t iv i ty - Pathway to P r o g r e s s in Nursing" - M r s . Luci le P. Leone, President , National League for Nursing, was the featured speaker at the opening sess ion of the convention.

". . . A l l of the groups dealing with the s ick have a stake in the quality and amount of nursing ca re available and can work together to balance needs and r e sou rce s for nursing. " M r s . Leone further desc r ibed nursing as a "crea t ive art dealing in the medium of human spirit and physiological p r o c e s s e s " .

She presented three major fronts on which a State League for Nursing could take action to achieve its purpose:

--That the nursing needs of people be met . - -That nursing be improved so that the art of nursing

could be m o r e effectively prac t iced . - - A n d lastly, that the ro le of the nurse include

community s e r v i c e s .

• - "Pleasures and Pains of Being a Wri te r" was the topic of a luncheon talk given by M r s . F rances Gray Patton, author of "Good Morning, Miss D o v e " and instructor of crea t ive writing at U. N. C.

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" C r e a t i v i t y ? A q u a l i t y o f m a k i n g s o m e t h i n g that e n d u r e s

b e y o n d a t r a n s i e n t m o m e n t . "

A c r e a t i v e p e r s o n i s a n i n d i v i d u a l " o n w h o m n o t h i n g i s

l o s t " .

" E a c h N u r s e ' s R e s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r C r e a t i v i t y 1 1 w a s d i s c u s s e d

b y M i s s E v e l y n Z e t t e r , d i r e c t o r o f t he N L N D e p a r t m e n t o f

H o s p i t a l N u r s i n g , a t a j o i n t m e e t i n g o f the N C L N ' s D i v i s i o n

o f N u r s i n g S e r v i c e and N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n .

" . . . t h ink t o d a y a b o u t t o m o r r o w . . . "

" . . . i f o n e d o e s no t u s e h i s c r e a t i v e a b i l i t y , h e w i l l

l o s e i t . . . "

She l i s t e d the f o l l o w i n g d e t e r r e n t s t o c r e a t i v i t y :

L a c k o f s e l f - c o n f i d e n c e

L a c k o f r e c o g n i t i o n

R e s i s t a n c e t o c h a n g e

L a c k o f o p p o r t u n i t y

L a c k o f c l e a r l y d e f i n e d g o a l s

C r e a t i v e p e o p l e p o s s e s s s e v e r a l q u a l i t i e s

A b i l i t y t o r e a c h a m o r e p r o d u c t i v e solut ion

to a p r o b l e m

M e n t a l f l e x i b i l i t y

A b i l i t y t o a b s t r a c t

A b i l i t y t o s y n t h e s i z e

I n d e p e n d e n c e o f j u d g m e n t

D r i v e a n d the u r g e t o a c c o m p l i s h

- " A D e c a d e o f P r o g r e s s " w a s r e v i e w e d b y M r s . E d i t h B r o c k e r ,

A s s i s t a n t D e a n , D u k e U n i v e r s i t y S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g , d u r i n g a

g e n e r a l p r o g r a m m e e t i n g c e l e b r a t i n g the 10th A n n i v e r s a r y

o f t he N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g . M r s . B r o c k e r

r e v i e w e d t h e t h e m e s a n d p r o j e c t s o f t he L e a g u e that r e v e a l e d

e r a s o f : c o n c e r n s a b o u t s t u d e n t s ; u s e f u l n e s s o f t he g r a d u a t e

n u r s e i n h o s p i t a l s ; r e o r g a n i z a t i o n o f t h e L e a g u e ; e d u c a t i o n

o f e d u c a t o r s ; and p a t i e n t c a r e .

- " T h e P r e s e n t a n d the F u t u r e " , d i s c u s s e d b y M r s . M a r y K .

K n e e d l e r , C h i e f o f t he P u b l i c H e a l t h N u r s i n g S e c t i o n , S ta t e

B o a r d o f H e a l t h , s t r e s s e d the n e e d f o r i n t e n s i f i e d e f f o r t s

t o w a r d r e c r u i t m e n t , i m p r o v e m e n t and e x p a n s i o n o f n u r s i n g

s e r v i c e and i n r e s e a r c h f o r t h e f u t u r e .

T h e p u b l i c i s c o n f u s e d w i t h t h e v a r i e t y o f e d u c a t i o n a l p r o g r a m s

i n n u r s i n g - - f r o m t h e t w e l v e m o n t h L P N p r o g r a m t o f o u r a n d

o n e - h a l f y e a r b a s i c c o l l e g i a t e p r o g r a m f o r the p r o f e s s i o n a l

n u r s e .

" S o m e t h i n g m u s t b e d o n e . W e a r e s t i l l i n t he b e g i n n i n g o f

a t r a n s i t i o n p e r i o d i n n u r s i n g e d u c a t i o n f r o m d i r e c t s e r v i c e

t o e d u c a t i o n . T h e L e a g u e m u s t n o t f o l l o w th i s c h a n g e , bu t

m u s t l e a d i t ; m u s t n o t t h r o u g h c o n f l i c t d e l a y i t ; bu t m u s t ,

by t h o u g h t f u l a c t i o n , e n c o u r a g e i t . . . . 1 1

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the Agenda of the Coordinating Council - NCSNA-NCLN

NCSNA Commit tee on Nursing Care of the Chronica l ly 111 and A g e d - M r s . Mary Edith R o g e r s . The ro le of the p rofess iona l nurse in the c a r e of the ch ron ica l ly ill and aged was defined.

- - D e m a n d s for nursing ca re for aged and ch ron ica l ly

i l l a re inc reas ing .

- - T h e p rofess iona l nurse has knowledge, sk i l l s , and an understanding of the p r inc ip les in nursing and in f ields re la ted to med ic ine which p repa re her to make judgment and to plan, g ive and d i rec t the c a r e of these patients. By l imitat ion of numbers alone, the p rofess iona l nurse cannot do with and for the patient all those things which c o m p o s e his nursing c a r e . In l ieu thereof, she must par t ic ipate in all aspec ts of c a r e as a c l in ica l expert who wi l l :

1. Make pe r iod ic observa t ions of her patients to ascer ta in their needs .

2 . P e r f o r m nursing c a r e requir ing p ro fess iona l c o m p e t e n c e .

3. Supervise the p e r f o r m a n c e of ski l ls and techniques for nursing c a r e which may be de legated . [^]

4 . Make those c l in ica l observa t ions important to the phys ic ian .

5. Interpret for and to the patient.

6. P r o v i d e for c o m p r e h e n s i v e and continuing c a r e of the patient by coord ina t ion of the health s e r v i c e s when this is indicated.

•Interagency Commi t t ee on Disas te r Nursing. Chairman. Nursing groups represen ted :

Janet Campbel l ,

I N. C. League for Nurs ing

N. C. State N u r s e s ' A s s o c i a t i o n N. C. State Boa rd of Health, Nursing Sect ion N. C. State Board of Nurse Regis t ra t ion and

Nursing Education Amer ican Red C r o s s Nursing Nursing in the A r m e d F o r c e s

Its purpose is to deve lop a r ea l i s t i c p r o g r a m for prepar ing p ro fes s iona l nu r ses , both ac t ive and inact ive , in the knowledge and ski l ls essent ia l for effect ive par t ic ipat ion and appropr ia te s e r v i c e s in a d i sas te r .

The f irs t undertaking was the deve lopment of a sys tem for training nurses throughout the state in their r e spons ib i l i t i e s to fulfill the fo l lowing o b j e c t i v e s :

1. to b e c o m e proficient in the pract ice of disaster nursing

2. to develop the ability to direct and supervise the activit ies of large numbers of nursing assistants

3. to r ece ive training in expanded functions (disaster medic ine) in order to per form l i fe-saving and first-aid measures

4. to b e c o m e familiar with the Civil Defense Emergency Hospital, its equipment, r e co rd sys tems , and nurses '

> ro le in this setting

A subcommit tee , under the chairmanship of Miss Virginia Nelson, has developed a course outline which is anticipated to provide approximately 20 hours of instruction geared to currently employed reg is te red nurses in North Carolina. Additional content appropriate to the particular community could be added loca l ly .

A trial run of the course will be car r ied out in Alamance County under the sponsorship of a commit tee composed of m e m b e r s of the N. C. League for Nursing, NCSNA Distr ic t Nurses ' Assoc ia t ions , Red C r o s s , and Alamance County Health Department. Alamance County Medical Society approval of the material will be requested pr ior to the first c o u r s e . A volunteer instructor will be recrui ted loca l ly , and the organization of the loca l arrangements will be developed by the county commi t t ee .

Implementation of the course will then be undertaken statewide in a s imi lar pattern after requesting approval of the course content f rom the State Medical Society .

Another responsibi l i ty recognized by the Interagency Committee is the need for providing nursing leadership to the Emergency Medical Serv ices Committee of the State Medical Society in the following areas :

1. Definition of speci f ic functions of nurses in various disaster settings.

2. Development of current ros te r of available nurses throughout the state and their specif ic disaster as s ignments .

Enthusiastic interest has been expressed by the A m e r i c a n Red Cross in sharing in the development of a nurses ' ros te r .

The posit ion of nurse co-ord ina tor for Civil Defense was created through action by the Nursing Section, State Board of Health, and the State Civil Defense Agency, with funds available through the end of June, 1962. No applicants were found until too late to implement the p rogram this yea r . Establishment of this posi t ion for which the need is c lea r ly apparent will need now to await action by the State Legislature in 1963 to appropriate state funds to match available federal funds.

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T H E B O A R D M E E T S .

- - R e p o r t s f r o m D i v i s i o n s and C o u n c i l s

C o n s i d e r a b l e c o n c e r n w a s e x p r e s s e d o v e r :

- - " f r a g m e n t a t i o n " o f p r o g r a m s ( D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g

E d u c a t i o n ) - t he n u m b e r s o f m e e t i n g s i n v o l v i n g j t h e

s a m e p e r s o n s b o t h i n t e r m s o f p a r t i c i p a t i o n a n a

a t t e n d a n c e .

- - t h e a p a t h y and l a c k o f l e a d e r s h i p i n the C o u n c i l o n

M a t e r n a l and C h i l d H e a l t h .

A f t e r c o n s i d e r a b l e d i s c u s s i o n , i t w a s a g r e e d that a c o m m i t t e e

c o n s i s t i n g o f

- - C h a i r m e n o f the D i v i s i o n s o f N u r s i n g S e r v i c e

and N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n

- - C h a i r m e n o f t he C o u n c i l s o f M a t e r n a l a n d C h i l d

H e a l t h ; M e d i c a l and S u r g i c a l N u r s i n g ; P s y c h i a t r i c

and M e n t a l H e a l t h N u r s i n g ; and the C h a i r m a n o f

the C o m m i t t e e o n R e h a b i l i t a t i o n N u r s i n g

s h a l l b e e s t a b l i s h e d t o s t u d y the l o n g r a n g e p l a n n i n g o f p r o g r a m s

f o r t he L e a g u e .

T h e 1963 C o n v e n t i o n w i l l m e e t a t the B a t t e r y P a r k H o t e l , A s h e v i l l e ,

N . C , A p r i l 17th, 18th, 19th and p o s s i b l y 2 0 t h .

•The n e x t B o a r d m e e t i n g w i l l b e h e l d June 14, 1 9 6 2 , a t 1 0 : 0 0 A . M . ,

S ta t e B o a r d o f H e a l t h , R a l e i g h .

P E O P L E , P R O G R A M S , P L A C E S I N N O R T H C A R O L I N A

In the E a s t .

D r . V i r g i n i a S t o n e c o n d u c t e d a w o r k s h o p o n G e r i a t r i c

N u r s i n g f o r V e t e r a n ' s H o s p i t a l N u r s i n g P e r s o n n e l o f

F a y e t t e v i l l e a n d C o m m u n i t y i n M a r c h , 1 9 6 2 .

• A c o u r s e i n P u b l i c S p e a k i n g i s b e i n g o f f e r e d i n V e t e r a n ' s

H o s p i t a l c l a s s r o o m , F a y e t t e v i l l e , u n d e r the a u s p i c e s o f

N . C . S t a t e C o l l e g e - 2 h o u r s c o l l e g e c r e d i t w i l l b e g i v e n

u p o n s a t i s f a c t o r y c o m p l e t i o n . M a n y V . A . n u r s e s a r e e n r o l l e d .

• A l t r u s a C l u b o f F a y e t t e v i l l e w i l l s p o n s o r , w i t h N . C . S . N . A .

D i s t r i c t # 1 4 a s c o - s p o n s o r , T h e N u r s e o f the Y e a r d u r i n g

H o s p i t a l W e e k ( M a y 6 - 1 2 , 1 9 6 2 ) .

• M i s s S o p h i a L a r s e n , C l e v e l a n d H e i g h t s , O h i o , C h a i r m a n o f

t he A N A O p e r a t i n g R o o m N u r s e s C o n f e r e n c e G r o u p , l e c t u r e d

t o n u r s e s o f t h e F a y e t t e v i l l e a r e a a t C a p e F e a r V a l l e y H o s p i t a l ,

A p r i l 12 , 1 9 6 2 . H e r s u b j e c t - " B e t t e r U t i l i z a t i o n o f E x i s t i n g

O p e r a t i n g R o o m P e r s o n n e l " .

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- -Ed i th B. Chance of Fayettevi l le attended an Institute on

Nursing Home Administrat ion conducted by A m e r i c a n Hospital

Assoc ia t ion in cooperation with A m e r i c a n Nursing Home

Assoc ia t ion and A m e r i c a n Medica l Assoc ia t ion sponsored

by Southeastern Hospital Conference and Flor ida Nursing

Home Assoc ia t ion at the Sevil le Hotel, M i a m i Beach, F lor ida ,

M a r c h 2 7 - 2 9 , 1962 . M r s . Chance served on panel -

Developing Working Relationships with Other Health Care

Institutions and A g e n c i e s .

- - M r s . Kathryn Hammond and M r s . Violet Thorne from the

faculty of the Wi l son School of Nursing were enrol led in the

Short T e r m Course "Prob lems in Adminis trat ion" held in

Chapel Hil l , M a r c h 1 9 - 2 3 , 1962 .

- - M r s . Violet Thorne and M r s . Helen Scott of W i l s o n attended

the Tes t Construction workshop Apri l 9th and 10th held at

Rex Hospital , Raleigh, N. C.

- - M r s . Cece l ia Mayo and M r s . Helen Scott were in attendance

at the N C L N Convention held at the Jack T a r Hotel in Durham.

- - R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s from the Student Body of Wi l son School of

Nursing attended the State Student Nurses Assoc ia t ion work

shop held at Wake M e m o r i a l Hospital on M a r c h 12th, and

the 8th Dis tr ic t meet ings held at Rex Hospital in January,

and at Park View Hospital , Rocky Mount, in M a r c h . The

Wi l son School of Nursing students will be hos te s se s for the

8th Distr ict Meeting on May 10th at the Eastern North Carol ina

Sanatorium. Off icers will be elected at this meeting and

they hope for a large attendance.

- - M i s s M e r l e Owens and M i s s Imogene Gay plan to attend the

National Student Nurses Convention in Detroit M a y 18th-22nd.

Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill

- - N . C. Board of N u r s e Registrat ion and Nursing Education

announc es

- - T h e official annual census of nursing personnel in

North Carol ina is now being conducted by the Board

Off ice . F o r m s for listing both profess ional and

pract ical nurses have been mai led to all hospitals ,

schools of nursing, c l inics , public health departments ,

private duty reg i s t r i e s , industries employing nurses ,

and nursing h o m e s .

- -Broughton Hospital in Morganton requested and rece ived

Board approval as an affiliate program in basic psychiatr ic

nursing. At present they are able to admit students f rom

only one North Carol ina diploma school . Presbyter ian

Hospital School of Nursing, Charlotte , is the f irs t to participate.

- - T h e Duke Universi ty School of Nursing has rece ived National

League for Nursing approval for the public health nursing c o m

ponent of its a lready accredited baccalaureate p r o g r a m .

The University of North Carolina School of Nursing has rece ived NLN accredi tat ion for its program in nursing leading to a Mas te r ' s deg ree .

Miss Carr ie M. Spurgeon, executive secre ta ry to the Board, spoke to the Conference of Hospital Diploma Schools of Nursing in North Carolina which met on March 7th in Southern P ines . She d iscussed the functions and responsibi l i t ies of the Board of Nurse Registrat ion and Nursing Education and highlighted the p rob lems and goals of nursing education today. J. Lyman Melvin, Rocky Mount, is president of the Conference .

Miss Evelyn L. Per ry , R . N . , has resigned her posit ion as educational consultant to the Board, effective March 15th. She has accepted a posit ion with East Carolina Col lege in Greenvi l le where she will teach m edica l - surg ica l nursing.

Miss Pe r ry rece ived her diploma from Rex Hospital School of Nursing, Raleigh, and her B . S . P . H . N . f rom the University of North Carolina School of Nursing in Chapel Hill. She joined the Board ' s staff in September, 1959.

During the t ime she has been consultant to the Board, Miss P e r r y has done an outstanding j o b for nursing education in this state. The m e m b e r s of the Board, the Board Enlarged, and the office staff extend their best wishes to her as she assumes her new respons ib i l i t i es .

Miss Marion E. McGrath has accepted an appointment to the position of Educational Consultant to the N. C. Board of Nurse Registrat ion and Nursing Education, effective May 28, 1962.

Miss McGrath is a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Presbyter ian Hospi ta l -Columbia University in New York . She earned her M . S . Degree f rom the University of Pennsylvania. Her exper ience includes: Ins t ructor-Coordinator of Field Work P r o g r a m s and Di rec tor of Clinical Instruction at the University of Pennsylvania, Di rec tor of School of Nursing and Nursing Serv ice at Rober t B. Green Hospital, San Antonio, Texas , and as Assistant Di rec to r of Nursing Se rv i ce s , Southeastern Area , Amer ican Red C r o s s .

Thir ty-f ive pract ica l nurse education teachers of the Vocational P rog rams of Prac t ica l Nursing attended a t eachers ' meeting in Raleigh on Apri l 13, 1962. It was a full day from ten o ' c l o c k in the morning until nine o ' c l o c k that night. Discuss ions w e r e centered around pract ical nurse education and Industrial Education Centers ; effective use of pract ical nursing textbooks; and plans for summer s choo l .

Most of these same teachers attended the Annual Conference of the North Carolina Vocat ional Assoc ia t ion on Apr i l 14th at N. C. State Co l l ege . Governor T e r r y Sanford and Dr . Walter Arnold, Assistant C o m m i s s i o n e r for Vocational Education, were the main speakers .

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There were 580 pract ical nursing students enrol led in twelve of the Vocational P r o g r a m s of Prac t ica l Nurse Education during March 1962.

Miss Barbara L. Oyler , Assoc ia t e Direc tor of Nursing at Watts Hospital, attended a workshop at the University of North Carolina School of Nursing on the "Pr inc ip les and P rob l ems of Administrat ion in Schools of Nursing".

Approximate ly twelve student nurses f rom Watts Hospital in Durham plan to attend the National Student Nurses Assoc ia t ion Convention to be held in Detroit in May.

Dr . Elizabeth L. Kemble , Dean, University of North Carolina School of Nursing, is l isted in the new edition of Who's Who of Amer ican Women (compi led by the editors of Who's Who in Am e r i ca ) .

-The following faculty m e m b e r s from University of North Carolina School of Nursing attended a National League for Nursing Conference at Wil l iamsburg, Virginia, March 26th through 28th: Dr . Elizabeth L. Kemble , dean; Dr . Virginia Stone, p ro fe s so r , community nursing; M r s . Evangeline Poulos , assoc ia te p ro fesso r , psychiatr ic nursing; Margaret Haynes, assistant p ro fe s so r , outpatient nursing; and Cleone Hill, assistant p ro fesso r , public health nursing. The con ference was sponsored by the Department of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree P r o g r a m s , NLN.

-The U. S. Public Health Serv ice has approved a grant of $13, 780 for the first twelve months of a f ive-year r e sea rch project , "Elements of P r o g r e s s i v e Patient Care and Public Health Nursing", to the University of North Carolina School of Nursing, according to Dr . Elizabeth L. Kemble , dean of the schoo l .

The pro jec t is designed to develop a plan for se lec ted learning exper iences which will prepare the general nursing student (the student who is already a regis tered nurse, but is working for her B . S . degree in nursing) to function m o r e effectively as a public health nurse within an institutional setting as well as in the community.

Dr. Virginia Stone, p ro fesso r and chairman of the department of community nursing, University of North Carolina School of Nursing, will be the principal investigator for the f ive -year study.

-CORRECTION: NCLN News, Volume X, Number 1, Winter Is

On page 13 under the list of i tems WANTED for the University of North Carolina School of Nursing l ibrary, the item PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING should be only two l ines, ending with "July 1948". This journal ceased publication in 1952, and was c o m bined with NURSING OUTLOOK in 1953.

In the Piedmont

- - M i s s Agnes Campbell , President of the NCLN, and Miss Sue Kerley, immediate past president, presented the p rogram for the meeting of Distr ict 3, N. C. State Nurses ' Assoc ia t ion , on Thursday, Apri l 12th, in Winston-Salem. This p rogram was sponsored by the EACT Section.

The speakers stated the purpose of the program was to tell the s tory of the League for Nursing. Beginning with the definition of the League for Nursing they continued to tracing the his tor ical development of the National League for Nursing. In compar i son the his tor ical development of the N. C. League was summar ized . An explanation of the National organization was given and the differences and types of departments and counci ls were summar ized .

In March 1962 the N. C. League for Nursing had a m e m b e r ship of approximately 466. One of the major pro jec ted p rog rams for the year is increasing membersh ip . Membersh ip applications were distributed to all interested pe r sons .

Highlights of the annual convention were mentioned. Some of the s o - c a l l e d "f i rs ts" the N. C. League for Nursing can cla im include the first Health Careers Congress attempted by any state and the establishment of the first Medica l -Surg ica l Counci l .

This was an especia l ly pertinent presentation and was enjoyed by all m e m b e r s who represented all the major fields of nursing.

- - M i s s Agnes Campbell , M r s . Annie Motsinger and M r s . Helen Hester attended the Test Construction workshop Apr i l 9th and 10th.

- - M i s s Pat Mize , Miss Ruth Noel and M r s . Annie Mots inger attended the Nursing Institute on Cerebral Palsy, May 8th, Winston-Salem.

- - M i s s Martha Adams and Miss Agnes Campbell attended the ANA Convention in Detroit May 14-18, 1962.

- - M i s s Helen Hester, Miss Patsy Carro l l and M r s . Margaret Butler attended the workshop "The Student in the Clinical Setting" on May 4th in Greensbo ro . Miss Carro l l part icipated on the p r o g r a m .

- - M r s . Bobbie Coley and Miss Patsy Carrol l attended the Psychia t r ic Nursing Institute at University of North Carolina on May 9th.

- - M r s . Margaret Butler, graduate of City Memor ia l Hospital , joined the faculty of the City Memor ia l Hospital School of Nursing in Apr i l . She is assistant instructor in fundamentals of nursing.

- - T h e Area #3 Medica l -Surg ica l Sub-Council held a workshop Apri l 16th at Woman 's Col lege entitled "The Use of Disaster Situations as a Means of Approach to Teaching Surgical Nursing".

A r e a 3 d e c i d e d o n o n e o r t w o w o r k s h o p s f o r t h e i r y e a r ' s

p r o g r a m r a t h e r t h a n m o n t h l y m e e t i n g s , s i n c e i t i s a l m o s t

i m p o s s i b l e t o g e t t o g e t h e r o n a d a t e a n d t i m e f o r a m e e t i n g

t ha t w i l l n o t e n t a i l h o u r s o f t r a v e l t i m e .

M i s s J e a n R i d d l e h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d D i r e c t o r o f N u r s i n g a t

M o s e s H . C o n e M e m o r i a l H o s p i t a l a s o f M a y 2 0 , 1 9 6 2 . S h e

i s a n a t i v e o f I n d i a n a , a g r a d u a t e o f I n d i a n a U n i v e r s i t y S c h o o l

o f N u r s i n g . S h e h a s b e e n D i r e c t o r o f N u r s i n g a t R e x H o s p i t a l ,

h a s h e l d s u p e r v i s o r y p o s i t i o n s i n t h e V e t e r a n ' s A d m i n i s t r a t i o n ,

a n d i s p r e s e n t l y a t W a k e C o u n t y M e m o r i a l H o s p i t a l .

M r s . J u l i a S p i g h t a n d J e w e l l y n S m i t h o f A & T C o l l e g e a t t e n d e d

t h e B i e n n i a l M e e t i n g o f t h e B a c c a l a u r e a t e a n d H i g h e r D e g r e e

P r o g r a m i n W i l l i a m s b u r g , V i r g i n i a , i n M a r c h o n " T h e M a j o r

i n N u r s i n g - C r i t i c a l A r e a s " .

D e a n N a o m i W y n n , A & T C o l l e g e , a t t e n d e d a s h o r t - t e r m

c o u r s e i n a d m i n i s t r a t i o n h e l d a t C h a p e l H i l l . T h e p r i n c i p a l

s p e a k e r w a s D r . G e n e v i e v e B i x l e r .

M r s . M a d d o x , D i r e c t r e s s a t L . R i c h a r d s o n H o s p i t a l , a t t e n d e d

a n i n s t i t u t e a t U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g

o n " N u r s i n g i n R a d i a t i o n i n t h e A t o m i c A g e " .

A t h a H o w e l l a n d B e t t y E l l e r , G u i l f o r d C o u n t y H e a l t h D e p a r t

m e n t , w i l l a t t e n d t h e A N A C o n v e n t i o n i n D e t r o i t t h e w e e k o f

M a y 1 4 t h .

T h e S o u t h e r n B r a n c h o f t h e A P H A w i l l m e e t i n R o a n o k e ,

V i r g i n i a , a n d w i l l b e a t t e n d e d b y m e m b e r s o f t h e G u i l f o r d

C o u n t y H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t .

B e t t y S h o r e o f K i n g , N . C . , a g r a d u a t e o f D u k e U n i v e r s i t y

S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g i n 1 9 6 1 , h a s b e e n e m p l o y e d a s a s t a f f n u r s e

a t t h e G u i l f o r d C o u n t y H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t .

N L N R e g i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e i n W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . , A p r i l 2 n d

a n d 3 r d , o n " H o w t o O r g a n i z e a n d E x t e n d C o m m u n i t y N u r s i n g

S e r v i c e s f o r t h e C a r e o f t h e S i c k a t H o m e " , w a s a t t e n d e d b y :

M r s . B e t t y K e z i a h , D i r e c t o r o f P u b l i c H e a l t h N u r s i n g , a n d

D r . M a u r i c e K a m p , H e a l t h D i r e c t o r , C h a r l o t t e H e a l t h D e p a r t

m e n t ; M i s s A t h a H o w e l l , D i r e c t o r o f P u b l i c H e a l t h N u r s i n g ,

G u i l f o r d C o u n t y H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t ; M r s . D o r i s N i c h o l s ,

S u p e r v i s i n g N u r s e , A l a m a n c e C o u n t y H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t ;

M r s . C l a r k , P u b l i c H e a l t h N u r s e f r o m H a l i f a x C o u n t y H e a l t h

D e p a r t m e n t ; M i s s A n n i e H . R o b i n s o n , D i r e c t o r o f P u b l i c H e a l t h

N u r s i n g , G a s t o n C o u n t y H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t ; a n d D r . T h o m a s

R . N i c h o l s , M o r g a n t o n , N . C . , a m e m b e r o f C h r o n i c D i s e a s e

C o m m i t t e e o f t h e N . C . S t a t e M e d i c a l S o c i e t y .

H e a l t h C a r e e r C l u b s a r e b l o s s o m i n g i n G a s t o n C o u n t y , t h o u g h

n o o n e i s n a i v e e n o u g h t o b e l i e v e tha t t h e e s t a b l i s h m e n t o f s u c h

c l u b s c a n o r w i l l c o m e o v e r n i g h t . T h r e e h i g h s c h o o l s h a v e

a l r e a d y a p p l i e d f o r t h e i r n a t i o n a l c h a r t e r . I n a d d i t i o n , f i v e m o r e

c l u b s h a v e o f f i c e r s a n d h a v e b e e n m e e t i n g r e g u l a r l y . T o t a l

n u m b e r o f c l u b s e x p e c t e d i s t w e l v e . T h e c l u b s w i l l h a v e a c o u n t y -

w i d e o r g a n i z a t i o n w i t h a b o a r d m a d e u p o f c l u b p r e s i d e n t s a n d

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will meet as a county group several t imes a year . The board will meet m o r e often than the entire group, of c o u r s e .

A county Advi so ry commit tee made up of profess ional people , including Nursing League m e m b e r s and National Foundation Chapter m e m b e r s , se rves zc help the clubs organize and plan their p rog rams , and to act as a "clearing house" of loca l information concerning scholarships and loans available for students for either co l l ege or shorter term training.

The Gaston County Chapter of the National Foundation (March of Dimes) is sponsoring the county clubs in cooperat ion with the Nursing League. The entire county is interested in the project , judging by responses to inquiries concerning scho la r ships and recent newspaper publicity. The local Foundation Chapter is offering a $50 cash pr ize to the senior Health Career Club m e m b e r writing the best paper on one of several subjects , including congenital abnormal i t ies , genet ics , DNA, arthri t is .

- - M r s . Louise Laney, Memor ia l Miss ion Hospital, attended Emergency Room Conference in Chicago in March which was sponsored by the NLN.

- - M r s . Bcbbie Turbyfil l , Memor ia l Miss ion Hospital, attended a conference sponsored by the Duke Endowment Fund in Charlotte in February, "Systematic T ime Scheduling".

- - M i s s Rebecca Ensley and M r s . Laura Hannah, Memor ia l Miss ion Hospital, were in Louisvi l le , Kentucky, in March to attend a Surgical Congress sponsored by the Amer ican Hospital As sociat ion.

- - M i s s Mary Copeland, State Board of Health, and Miss Luna Wagner, V. A. Hospital, attended a week ' s course in Radiologica l Nursing in March at Rockvi l l e , Maryland.

- -Di s t r i c t #1, NCSNA, sponsored a Bake Sale to raise money for nursing r e sea rch and are planning a fashion show for the same purpose to be held May 31st at the Battery Park Hotel .

- - T h e Land of the Sky is looking forward to a meeting of the N. C. League of Nursing Apri l 17, 18, and 19, 1963.

--In Distr ic t #1, approximately 40 nurses are enrol led in c o u r s e s of advanced education.

MEETINGS

^ C o n f e r e n c e on Health Caree r s , N. C. Health Council , Goodwill Industr ies , Rehabilitation Center, Winston-Salem, May 22, 1962.

^ A n n u a l Meeting and Scientific Sess ions , N. C. Heart Assoc ia t ion , Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, Raleigh, N. C. , May 24, 1962.

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A n n u a l S t a t e w i d e I n d u s t r i a l S a f e t y C o n f e r e n c e , N u r s i n g S e c t i o n ,

B a t t e r y P a r k H o t e l , A s h e v i l l e , N . C . , M a y 2 4 , 1 9 6 2 .

N C S N A W o r k s h o p f o r O c c u p a t i o n a l H e a l t h , N u r s e s ' S e c t i o n , B a t t e r y

P a r k H o t e l , A s h e v i l l e , N . C . , M a y 2 5 , 1 9 6 2 .

P u b l i c H e a l t h N u r s i n g S u p e r v i s i o n W o r k s h o p , U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a

S c h o o l o f P u b l i c H e a l t h , C h a p e l H i l l , J u n e 1 8 - 2 9 , 1 9 6 2 .

A n n u a l M e e t i n g o f W e s t e r n N o r t h C a r o l i n a P u b l i c H e a l t h A s s o c i a t i o n ,

B l o w i n g R o c k , J u l y 5 - 6 , 1 9 6 2 .

P r o b l e m s i n T u b e r c u l o s i s C o n t r o l I n s t i t u t e , L a k e J u n a l u s k a , A u g u s t

1 9 - 2 2 , 1 9 6 2 .

S o u t h e r n T u b e r c u l o s i s C o n f e r e n c e , A s h e v i l l e , N . C . , S e p t e m b e r 1 9 - 2 1 ,

1 9 6 2 .

A n n u a l M e e t i n g , N o r t h C a r o l i n a P u b l i c H e a l t h A s s o c i a t i o n , R a l e i g h ,

N . C , S e p t e m b e r 2 7 - 2 8 , 1 9 6 2 .


P r a c t i c a l N u r s i n g h a s n e w N L N A g e n c y M e m b e r C o u n c i l

- - T h e N a t i o n a l L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g , N e w Y o r k , n o w h a s a n e w

c o u n c i l o f m e m b e r a g e n c i e s , c o m p o s e d o f e d u c a t i o n a l p r o g r a m s

i n p r a c t i c a l n u r s i n g w h i c h h a v e j o i n e d i t s n e w D e p a r t m e n t o f

P r a c t i c a l N u r s i n g P r o g r a m s .

T h e c o u n c i l w a s f o r m e d o n p e t i t i o n o f the f i r s t 2 5 p r a c t i c a l

n u r s i n g s c h o o l s t o j o i n the d e p a r t m e n t and a s o f A p r i l 1

n u m b e r e d 5 0 m e m b e r s . I t i s c o n s t i t u t e d a s a f o r u m f o r the

d i s c u s s i o n o f n e w d e v e l o p m e n t s i n p r a c t i c a l n u r s e e d u c a t i o n

and w i l l s e r v e i n a n a d v i s o r y c a p a c i t y t o the d e p a r t m e n t ' s

s t e e r i n g c o m m i t t e e .

T h e n e w c o u n c i l o f m e m b e r a g e n c i e s b r o u g h t i n t o N L N i t s

f i r s t a g e n c y m e m b e r f r o m the n e w s t a t e o f A l a s k a , t he A n c h o r a g e

C o m m u n i t y C o l l e g e P r a c t i c a l N u r s i n g P r o g r a m .

N u r s i n g S c h o l a r s h i p G u i d e i s P u b l i s h e d

- - A g u i d e t o g i v i n g a n d a d m i n i s t e r i n g s c h o l a r s h i p s and o t h e r

e d u c a t i o n a l f unds f o r n u r s i n g h a s b e e n i s s u e d b y the N a t i o n a l

L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g , N e w Y o r k , t h r o u g h i t s C o m m i t t e e o n

C a r e e r s .

T h e p u b l i c a t i o n , e n t i t l e d " G u i d e p o s t s f o r N u r s i n g S c h o l a r s h i p

P r o g r a m s " , h a s b e e n d e s i g n e d a s a s t i m u l u s t o p r o v i d i n g

f i n a n c i a l a i d f o r b e g i n n i n g s t u d e n t s i n p r o f e s s i o n a l and p r a c t i c a l

n u r s i n g and f o r r e g i s t e r e d n u r s e s u n d e r t a k i n g f u r t h e r s t u d y .

I n d e v e l o p i n g the p u b l i c a t i o n , the N L N ' s C o m m i t t e e o n C a r e e r s

e x a m i n e d s u c c e s s f u l n u r s i n g s c h o l a r s h i p p r o g r a m s b e i n g c a r r i e d

o n b y b u s i n e s s and i n d u s t r y , g o v e r n m e n t and v o l u n t a r y o r g a n i z a t i o n s ,

d r a w i n g i t s g u i d e l i n e s f r o m the e x p e r i e n c e s o f t h e s e g r o u p s . T h e

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publication is to assist c iv ic groups, medical and hospital auxi l iar ies , foundations, industrial organizat ions, fraternal groups, and individuals in providing funds for nursing education, and to aid nursing schools and other nursing groups in interpreting the need and pol ic ies for scholarships in this field.

"Guideposts for Nursing Scholarship P r o g r a m s " sel ls for 50£ a copy and is available from the commit tee on Ca ree r s , National League for Nursing, 10 Columbus C i rc l e , New York 19, N. Y.

Focus on Future Nurses Clubs

- - T h e Adv i so ry Committee on Future Nurses Clubs, a subcommit tee of Caree r s , cognizant of the responsibi l i ty of state commit tees on Careers to coordinate all nurse recrui tment activit ies within a state, makes a special plea to your commit tee to include FNC activit ies in your planning and coordination of Careers activit ies within your state. Some states are already doing this by delegating work with FNC's to one or m o r e m e m b e r s of the Careers commi t t ee . We hope, of cou r se , that more states will follow suit.

Overall goals for the FNC program adopted by the Adv i so ry Committee and endorsed by the Commit tee on Careers are :

1. To encourage the establishment and continuation of strong nationally char tered clubs in all parts of the country;

2. to strengthen the quality of the FNC p rog ram;

3. to secure increased recognit ion and support for the FNC program on loca l , state, and national l eve l s .

The combined efforts of all of us are needed to reach these goals . We sol ic i t your help and support, and hope you will let us know if you have quest ions, suggest ions, or comments regarding FNC activit ies within your state.

Nursing Schools Admit 76 ,469 Students in 1961

- - S c h o o l s of profess ional and pract ica l nursing in the United States admitted 76,469 students during 1961, an increase of almost 3, 000 over the 73, 565 admitted the previous year , Fred C. Foy, chairman, Commit tee on Caree r s , National League for Nursing, announced Apri l 13, 1962.

The 1, 126 programs of profess ional nursing in hospitals , junior and senior c o l l e g e s , and universi t ies accepted 51,219 new students, compared to 49 ,787 in I960, M r . Foy repor ted . Admiss ions to the 693 pract ical nursing schools r o s e f rom 23, 778 to 25, 250 during the same per iod .

The major i ty of students entering professional nursing se lec ted three-year diploma p rograms in hospitals and independent schools of nursing. They represented 77 per cent of the total, or 39, 364. Another 9, 287, or 18. 2 per cent, entered co l l eges

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or universi t ies to study for bachelor of sc ience degrees in nursing. The remaining 2,468 students, or 4 . 8 per cent of the total, chose two-year associa te degree p rograms in junior and community c o l l e g e s .

Although diploma p rograms continued to hold the lead, as in the past, their percentage of the total admiss ions dropped during 1961, while those for both bachelors and associa te degree p r o grams r o s e , Mr . Foy pointed out. The National League for Nursing has estimated that 33 per cent of the profess ional nursing f o r c e should be prepared in co l lege and universi ty p rog rams to meet the requirements for beginning jobs in public health nursing and for the graduate study des i rable in the other leadership areas where shortages are press ing- - teaching , administration, expert c l inical prac t ice , and r e sea rch .

The 1961 admiss ions to professional schools fi l led the schools to 90 per cent of their capacity for freshmen students. An important factor , therefore, in increasing the nurse supply of the nation is the need for more c l a s s r o o m s , housing, c l inical faci l i t ies , and qualified teachers for nursing schoo l s , Mr . Foy stated. There were 1,404 reported budgeted vacancies in nursing school faculties in 1961, he added.

Mr . Foy cited the ratio of 231 professional nurses per 100, 000 population employed full t ime in the United States in I960 as far short of the 300 per 100, 000 cons idered a minimum goal . There were 504, 000 employed profess ional nurses in I960, some 90, 000 of whom were working part t ime . Approximately 240, 000 pract ical nurses held l i censes in 1959.

New Fi lm

- - " T h e Role of Nursing in Infection Control" , a new cl inical film to be re leased by the film se rv i ce of the Amer i can Nurses ' Assoc ia t ion and the National League for Nursing, will have an official p r emie re at the 1962 ANA Convention in Detroi t .

Produced on a grant from Dial Soap Resea rch Labora tor ies (a division of Armour and Company), the film is presented by the ANA and NLN in c o - s p o n s o r s h i p with the Amer i can Medical Assoc ia t ion , the Amer i can Col lege of Surgeons and the Amer i can Hospital Assoc ia t ion . It is one of a se r ies the medica l and nursing organizations have sponsored in joint effort to combat staphyl o c o c c a l and other infections which have b e c o m e an increasingly ser ious problem as bacter ia develops res is tance to ant ibiot ics .

Other fi lms in the infection control se r ies are : "Hospital Seps is : A Communicable Di sease" , "I Dress the Wound", "Disinfection of the Skin" and "Nursery Seps i s" .

(All the f i lms are available through the Chicago film l ib ra r ies of the Amer ican Medical Assoc ia t ion and the A m e r i c a n Hospital Assoc ia t ion , and through the ANA-NLN Fi lm Library , 267 West 25th Street, New York 1. )

V o l u m e X 1 0 t h A n n i v e r s a r y

N u m b e r 3

S U M M E R 1 9 6 2

Hff.

". . .that the nursing needs of people will be met. . . "

P a g e

S p e c i a l Bulletin to Our M e m b e r s 1

Comple ted Lis t of Of f ice rs and Commi t t ee 2

Chai rmen

The Boa rd Meets 4

Nursing Needs in North Carol ina 10

Health C a r e e r s 13

In Honor of M i s s Ruth Hay and M i s s Marga re t 14 Blee

In M e m o r i a m 15


Meet ings 19


Edi tor ia l Board : Mi s s Agnes Campbel l , Wins ton-Salem Mis s Sylvia R . K ige r , Wins ton-Salem Mis s R o s e F o r g i o n e , Durham M i s s Mary M c R e e , Charlotte M r s . Edith B r o c k e r , Durham M r s . Helen Mi l l e r , Durham M r s . Jean Las s i t e r , El izabeth City M r s . Edith Chance, Fayet tev i l le Miss Sarah W. Korn , G r e e n s b o r o M r s . Bobb ie Coley , Wins ton-Salem Mis s Mary Copeland, Ashev i l l e Miss Mary F r a n c i s , Oteen M r s . Dixie King, Rale igh M r s . Margare t Ridge , Ra le igh Mis s Mi r i am Daughtry, Ra le igh M r s . Es te l le Mike l l , Durham M r s . Che r ry Pa rke r , P i t t sboro


M i s s Laura S. B r e e s e , Editor Gaston County Health Department Gastonia, North Carol ina

Publ ished in Gastonia, North Carol ina

P E C I A L B U L L E T I N T O O U R M E M B E R S

O n the l a s t p a g e o f th i s i s s u e o f the N E W S i s a n A P P L I C A T I O N F O R I N D I -

I D U A L M E M B E R S H I P . E a c h m e m b e r o f the L e a g u e i s u r g e d t o u s e th i s

p p l i c a t i o n t o r e c r u i t O N E N E W M E M B E R .

A n e w m e m b e r m a y b e

- - A n a d m i n i s t r a t o r o f a h o s p i t a l o r o t h e r h e a l t h a g e n c y

- - A b o a r d o r c o m m i t t e e m e m b e r o f a n o r g a n i z a t i o n w h i c h

p r o v i d e s n u r s i n g s e r v i c e o r e d u c a t e s n u r s e s

- - A n u r s e

- - A p h y s i c i a n

- - A c o m m u n i t y l e a d e r i n t e r e s t e d i n the hea l th n e e d s o f p e o p l e

- - A c o n s u m e r o f hea l th s e r v i c e

- - A n a g e n c y

M e m b e r s o f the L e a g u e h a v e a p a r t in : h e l p i n g t o e s t a b l i s h s t a n d a r d s and

o a l s f o r o r g a n i z e d n u r s i n g s e r v i c e s and e d u c a t i o n ; p r o m o t i n g i m p r o v e m e n t

f n u r s i n g s e r v i c e s ; d e v e l o p i n g and i m p r o v i n g e d u c a t i o n a l p r o g r a m s i n n u r s i n g ;

p o n s o r i n g r e c r u i t m e n t p r o g r a m s t o i n t e r e s t q u a l i f i e d p e r s o n s i n c h o o s i n g p r o -

e s s i o n a l o r p r a c t i c a l n u r s i n g a s a c a r e e r ; and i n p r o v i d i n g g u i d e s , t o o l s , and

d v i s o r y s e r v i c e s t o a s s i s t l o c a l c o m m u n i t i e s i n m e e t i n g the h e a l t h n e e d s o f

e i r p e o p l e .

F o r e x a m p l e , the N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g ha s a c t i v e l y p a r t i c i -

a ted i n o r h e l p e d s p o n s o r :

- - W o r k s h o p s and c o n f e r e n c e s f o r p u b l i c hea l th n u r s e s , n u r s i n g

e d u c a t o r s , g e n e r a l duty n u r s e s , p r a c t i c a l n u r s e s and h o u s e

m o t h e r s i n s c h o o l s o f n u r s i n g .

- - A Hea l th C a r e e r s C o n g r e s s ( h e l d e a r l y this y e a r i n W i n s t o n - S a l e m )

T h e ' ' N e w s l e t t e r s " and " B u l l e t i n s " f r o m b o t h the Na t i ona l and the N o r t h

a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g a r e m a i l e d f r e e t o e a c h m e m b e r . I n a d d i t i o n , s u c h

ids a s l o a n f o l d e r s , f i l m s and s l i d e s o n m a n y a s p e c t s o f n u r s i n g c a r e a r e a v a i l -

b le wi thou t c h a r g e , e x c e p t f o r p o s t a g e .

S O E A C H O N E R E C R U I T O N E . C l i m b o n the N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r u r s i n g M e m b e r s h i p W a g o n n o w !

C O M P L E T E D LIST OF 1962-1963 OFFICERS AND C O M M I T T E E CHAIRMI

E F F E C T I V E JULY 9, 1962

P res iden t : M i s s Agnes Campbel l , 634 West Second St. , Winston-Sale

N. C.

F i r s t V i c e P res iden t : M r s . J e s s i e K i s e r , Cabar rus Memorial Hospit C o n c o r d , N. C. /̂ j

Second V i c e Pres iden t : Miss M a r y M c R e e , 2001 Pa rk Road , Charlott 3, N. C. / W

Sec re t a ry : M i s s Sylvia K ige r , 237 Lockland Avenue , Winsuu^^^t^mi N. C. "—

T r e a s u r e r : Miss R o s e F o r g i o n e , H-12 W e s t o v e r Park A p t s . , Durhan N. C .

Board of D i r e c t o r s :

,~\ M i s s A. Sue K e r l e y , 2213 Queen St . , Wins ton-Sa lem, N. C.

M r / R e u b e n Graham, North Carol ina Baptist Hospital , Winston SaJ.em.^N. C.

[isfe Janis David, Univers i ty of North Carol ina School of Nursing C h i t e l Hil l , N. C.

lTss M e r e b B. M o s s m a n , W o m a n ' s Co l l ege of Univers i ty of Nortj Caro l ina , G r e e n s b o r o , N. C .

Div i s ion of Nursing Educat ion:

M r s . Helen C . M i l l e r , Box 628, North Carol ina C o l l e g e , Durham, N. C.

Div i s ion of Nursing_Service

Mis s Janet Campbel l , Duke Univers i ty School of Nursing, Durham, N. C.

Commi t t ee Cha i rmen:

F inance : M r . Reuben Graham, North Carol ina Baptist Hospi ta l , Wins ton-Sa lem, N. C.

Constitution and B y - L a w s : M r . G e o r g e Har r i s , 1500 N. C. National Bank Bldg . , Charlot te , N. (

Nominat ing: M i s s Laura S. B r e e s e , Gaston County Health Dept . Gastonia, N. C.

M e m b e r s h i p : M i s s Evelyn P e r r y , 405 Jarvis St. , Greenv i l l e , N. C.

Publ ic Re la t ions : M i s s Laura S. B r e e s e , Gaston County Health Dep t . , Gastonia, N. C.

C a r e e r s in Nursing: M r s . Betty E l le r , 1708 Fr iend ly Road,

G r e e n s b o r o , N. C.

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Headquar ters : M i s s Marga re t C . M o o r e , Univers i ty o f North Carol ina School of Nursing, Chapel Hill , N. C.

P r o g r a m A r r a n g e m e n t s : M i s s M a r y F r a n c i s , 9 Ve te ran ' s D r i v e , A s h e v i l l e , N. C.

His to r i ca l Sou rce Mater ia l Mi s s Marga re t Johnson, 104 in Nursing: Jones St . , Chapel Hill, N. C.

Specia l P r o j e c t s Des ign: Mis s A. Sue K e r l e y , 2213 Queen S t . , Wins ton-Sa lem, N. C.

L ia i son Commi t t ee M r s . Edith B r o c k e r , 1326 N. C. Hospital A s s o c i a t i o n : W e l c o m e C i r c l e , Durham, N. C.

Interdivis ional Commi t t e e :

Nursing Rehabil i tat ion: D r . Vi rg in ia Stone, Univers i ty of North Carol ina School of Nursing, Chapel Hill, N. C.

Interdivis ional Counc i l s :

/ \ Maternal and Child Health Nurs ing: M i s s D . Mi ld red Beatty Rowan M e m o r i a l Hospital Sal isbury, N. C.

and Surgica l Nurs ing: M i s s El inor Caddel l , 707 L o u i s e Road , Durham, N. C.

P sych i a t r i c and Mental Health Nursing: Mis s Ella M c C o l l

101 Club Blvd .

K Durham, N. C.

Represen ta t ives to Other Organiza t ions :

N. C. Counci l of W o m e n ' s Organiza t ions :

M r s . Ruby Barnes Rex Hospital Rale igh, N. C.

M r s . Edith B. Chance 523 Country Club Dr ive Fayet tev i l le , N. C.

N. C. Health Counci l : M i s s June Watson M i s s Clyde Hogsed Dogwood A c r e s Chapel Hill , N. C.

New Headquarters Off ice : Suite 201

101 East R o s e m a r y St. Chapel Hill , N. C.

Office Sec re t a ry : M i s s R o s a Mac Coghil l B o x 687 Chapel Hill , N. C.

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O n J u n e 14 , 1 9 6 2 , B o a r d R o o m , N o r t h C a r o l i n a S ta t e N u r s e s A s s o c i a t i o n ,

R a l e i g h , N . C .


- - D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n - M r s . H e l e n M i l l e r , C h a i r m a n

W o r k s h o p i n T e s t C o n s t r u c t i o n w a s h e l d A p r i l 9 , 10 , 1 9 o 2 , y

a t R e x H o s p i t a l i n R a l e i g h w i t h a t o t a l a t t e n d a n c e o f 6 0 .

S e v e r a l l e t t e r s h a v e b e e n r e c e i v e d a s k i n g f o r a f o l l o w - u p i / -

s e s s i o n and that t he w o r k s h o p b e r e p e a t e d n e x t y e a r . P l a n s

f o r a f o l l o w - u p o f t he w o r k s h o p a r e u n d e r w a y f o r e a r l y f a l l .

A n y s u g g e s t i o n s o r r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s i n a d d i t i o n t o t h o s e

p r e v i o u s l y r e c e i v e d a r e w e l c o m e d .

D i r e c t o r s o f n u r s i n g a r e r e q u e s t e d t o i n f o r m the h o u s e

m o t h e r s i n t h e i r r e s p e c t i v e s c h o o l s that t h e N o r t h C a r o l i n a

L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g i s s t i l l i n t e r e s t e d i n w o r k i n g w i t h t h e m

i n t h e i r a n n u a l c o n f e r e n c e . A p p l i c a t i o n s f o r m e m b e r s h i p

i n the L e a g u e a r e a v a i l a b l e u p o n r e q u e s t .

- - D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g S e r v i c e - M i s s B e r t h a H . B o e t t n e r , S e c r e t a r y

JL

T h e D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g S e r v i c e i n c o o p e r a t i o n w i t h the

D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n i s g i v i n g t w o 2 - d a y w o r k s h o p s

o n " W h o D o e s the N u r s i n g N o w - a - d a y s ? " , ( o r - d e f i n i n g

r o l e s o f v a r i o u s l e v e l s o f n u r s i n g p e r s o n n e l ) , a t G o v e r n o r

T r y o n M o t o r H o t e l , N e w B e r n , T h u r s d a y a n d F r i d a y , A u g u s t

1 6 - 1 7 , 1 9 6 2 ; a n d a t t h e R o b e r t E . L e e H o t e l , W i n s t o n - S a l e m ,

M o n d a y a n d T u e s d a y , A u g u s t 2 0 - 2 1 , 1 9 6 2 . T h e k e y n o t e

s p e a k e r and r e s o u r c e p e r s o n i s M r s . A p o l l o n i a A d a m s ,

S p e c i a l A s s i s t a n t t o the C h i e f , N u r s i n g D i v i s i o n P u b l i c

H e a l t h S e r v i c e , a u t h o r o f n u r s i n g a c t i v i t y s t u d i e s i n

h o s p i t a l s , a n d C h i e f o f S ta f f f o r S u r g e o n G e n e r a l ' s C o n s u l t a n t

G r o u p o n N u r s i n g . R e g i s t r a t i o n f e e s a r e $ 5 . 0 0 f o r N C L N

m e m b e r s , a n d $ 1 0 . 0 0 f o r n o n - m e m b e r s .

T h e D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g S e r v i c e s c h e d u l e d a p l a n n i n g

c o m m i t t e e m e e t i n g w i t h a r e p r e s e n t a t i v e f r o m the A m e r i c a n

S t e r i l i z e r C o m p a n y o n J u n e 2 7 t h c o n c e r n i n g t w o w o r k s h o p s

t o b e h e l d e a r l y i n 1963 o n t o p i c s r e l a t e d t o the s t e r i l i z i n g

p r o c e s s . T h e c o m p a n y p r o v i d e s the s p e a k e r s and m a t e r i a l s .

T h e D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g S e r v i c e d o e s the l o c a l a r r a n g e m e n t s ,

p u b l i c i t y , and m a y c h a r g e a r e g i s t r a t i o n f e e - - n o p a r t o f

w h i c h g o e s t o t h e A m e r i c a n S t e r i l i z e r C o m p a n y .

C o u n c i l R e p o r t s :

- - P s y c h i a t r i c and M e n t a l H e a l t h N u r s i n g - M i s s E l l a M c C o l l ,

C h a i r m a n

T h e c o u n c i l h a s r e c e i v e d a r e q u e s t f r o m the m e m b e r s o f

the G o v e r n o r ' s C o m m i t t e e f o r h e l p i n f o l l o w i n g t h r o u g h

w i t h t h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s i n A C T I O N S F O R M E N T A L

H E A L T H .

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A w o r k s h o p w i l l b e h e l d , i f p o s s i b l e , t h i s y e a r . Q u e s t i o n

n a i r e s h a v e b e e n s e n t ou t t o d e t e r m i n e i n t e r e s t a r v e a s

- - M e d i c a l and S u r g i c a l N u r s i n g

W e r e g r e t that M i s s R e b e c c a H i l l , c h a i r m a n , i s 1

N o r t h C a r o l i n a . She w i l l b e m i s s e d b e c a u s e s h e

s u c h a m o t i v a t i n g f o r c e w i t h the c o u n c i l f o r t he p a

y e a r s . H o w e v e r , w e a r e m o s t f o r t u n a t e t o h a v e t h

l e a d e r s h i p o f M i s s E l i n o r C a d d e l l w h o h a s b e e n s

a s v i c e c h a i r m a n .

M a t e r n a l and C h i l d H e a l t h N u r s i n g

G r e a t c o n c e r n w a s e x p r e s s e d o v e r the i n a c t i v i t y o f t h i s

C o u n c i l . M i s s R o s e F o r g i o n e v o l u n t e e r e d t o r e q u e s t

M i s s D o r o t h y G r a n t t o s e n d a c o p y o f t h e m i n u t e s o f t he

l a s t a n n u a l m e e t i n g t o the P r e s i d e n t and S e c r e t a r y . M i s s

A g n e s C a m p b e l l o f f e r e d t o a t t e m p t t o c a l l a m e e t i n g o f

t he S t e e r i n g C o m m i t t e e a f t e r r e c e i p t o f t h e m i n u t e s .

- - S p e c i a l C o n f e r e n c e p l a n n e d

A t e n t a t i v e d a t e i n S e p t e m b e r i s b e i n g c o n s i d e r e d f o r a

j o i n t c o n f e r e n c e o n " L o n g - r a n g e P l a n s f o r W o r k s h o p s

and I n s t i t u t e s " . T h i s g r o u p i s c o m p o s e d o f D i v i s i o n

C h a i r m e n , C o u n c i l C h a i r m e n , a n d I n t e r d i v i s i o n a l

C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m e n .

C o m m i t t e e R e p o r t s :

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Convention Safety Deposit Box Annual Report Delegate Secretar ia l Serv ices (Less Taxes Withheld)

Postage Supplies

Councils Maternal and Child

Health Medica l -Surgica l Psychia t r ic

Commit tees Membersh ip

Dues

516.40 4 . 4 0

116.57 225 .00 139.75 ( 6 .01)

44. 77 44 .20

2 . 00

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10.43

15. 00 N. C. Health Council Southern Regional Council 75. 00

Divis ions Nursing Serv ice Nursing Education

8.00 139.70

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$2948.24 $2697.48 $5645.72

•Membership Commit tee - Miss Evelyn Pe r ry , Chairman

Report of Membersh ip for 1962 May 31, 1962

Total Member s Profess iona l Nurse 403 Prac t ica l Nurse 5 Al l ied 17 Non-Nurse 17 Agency 17

Departments Hospital Nursing 158 Public Health Nursing 45 Diploma and Assoc ia t e 131

Degree Baccalaureate and Higher 99

Degree

Prac t ica l Nursing 9

Councils

Prac t ica l Nursing 5 Occupational Health 12 Maternal and Child Health 95 Psychia t r ic and Mental 88

Health

Medica l -Surgica l

Resea rch


22 92

66 393

There has been a dec rease in new m e m b e r s . Everyone in the League is urged to recrui t new m e m b e r s . So

JOIN JOIN JOIN

-Commit tee on Constitution and By-Laws Chairman

M r . George Harris

Copies of Constitution and By-Laws have been sent by the Chairman to each m e m b e r of the Committee asking for suggest ions.

The following suggestions were re fe r red to the Commit tee for study:

1. To the President by a past m e m b e r of the Nominating Commit tee - that m e m b e r s of the Nominating Commit tee se rve a two year term of appointment rather than one year .

2. That representat ives representing the NCLN be a member of the North Carolina League for Nursing.

3. To keep in mind that next year is the Biennial Convention of NLN and that any needed changes made by the National League be incorporated in our State League Constitution and B y - L a w s .

4. That the books be audited by an accountant when a new Treasure r is elected (Suggested by Rose Forg ione , T rea su re r ) .

5. That standing and elected commit tees be defined or c lar i f ied.

6. That the By-Laws be studied to determine whether the functions and duties are accurately described. (Suggested by Miss Loudene Grady, Assistant Di rec to r of NLN Serv ices to State Leagues) .

Mr . Harr is stated he would be very happy to r ece ive from Board members or others any suggestions for r ev i s ions . He also volunteered to obtain copies of NLN By-Laws for the member s of the Board who requested c o p i e s . Write to:

M r . George Harris 1500 N. C. National Bank Bldg. Charlotte, N. C.

- -Pub l i c Relations Committee - Miss Laura B r e e s e , Chairman

The mailing list for the last issue of "North Carolina League for Nursing News" was 602. This number includes m e m b e r s , newspapers over 10,000 to 15,000 circulat ion, Health Departments and selected schools of nursing.

Mil 3 M i l d r e d G a y n o r , E d i t o r o f N u r s i n g O u t l o o k , s u g g e s t e d

that " T h e N e w s " b e s e n t t o o t h e r S ta t e L e a g u e s . I t w a s

d e c i d e d tha t t he e d i t o r s h o u l d m a k e the d e c i s i o n . T h e

t r e a s u r e r r e p o r t e d that f unds w e r e a d e q u a t e t o c o v e r t h i s

i n c r e a s e i n m a i l i n g .

N e w s i t e m s r e l a t e d t o L e a g u e a c t i v i t i e s s h o u l d b e s e n t t o

M i s s L a u r a B r e e s e , G a t o n C o u n t y H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t ,

G a s t o n i a , N . C .

C o m m i t t e e o n P r o g r a m A r r a n g e m e n t s - M i s s M a r y F r a n c i s ,

C h a i r m a n

T h e C o m m i t t e e o n P r o g r a m A r r a n g e m e n t s f o r the A n n u a l

M e e t i n g o f t he N C L N m e t a t M e m o r i a l M i s s i o n H o s p i t a l

o n J u l y 5 , 1 9 6 2 .

T h i s c o m m i t t e e i s c o m p o s e d o f M a r y E . F r a n c i s , C h a i r m a n ,

V A H , O t e e n ; M r s . H a n n a h B . L i n c o l n and M r s . E u n i c e

S e a b o r n , a l s o o f O t e e n ; M r . C h a r l e s N e w c o m b o f C o n v e n t i o n

B u r e a u , A s h e v i l l e ; M r s . E s t h e r L . C r e a s m a n and M a r y K .

G a r r i s o n o f M e m o r i a l M i s s i o n H o s p i t a l , A s h e v i l l e ; S i s t e r

M a r y P a t r i c i a a n d S i s t e r M a r y A s s u m p t a o f S t . J o s e p h ' s

H o s p i t a l , A s h e v i l l e ; M a r y E . C o p e l a n d and E l i z a b e t h M o o r e

o f W N C B o a r d o f H e a l t h , A s h e v i l l e .

T h e s u b - c o m m i t t e e s w e r e a p p o i n t e d and p o s s i b l e t h e m e s

w e r e d i s c u s s e d . T h e m e m b e r s o f N C L N a r e a s k e d t o

s u b m i t s u g g e s t i o n s f o r t h e m e s and f o r s p e a k e r s .

H i s t o r i c a l S o u r c e M a t e r i a l i n N u r s i n g C o m m i t t e e - M i s s

M a r g a r e t J o h n s o n , C h a i r m a n

T h e o b j e c t i v e s o f t h i s c o m m i t t e e a r e the s a m e a s t h o s e

o f the n a t i o n a l c o m m i t t e e . F o r the p r o p o s e d g u i d e f o r

o f f i c e r s and c o m m i t t e e c h a i r m e n , w e w i l l f u r t h e r d e v e l o p

t h e s e a c c o r d i n g t o p r o p o s e d a n d c u r r e n t a c t i v i t i e s o f o u r

s t a t e c o m m i t t e e .

O u r c o m m i t t e e m e t o n A p r i l 3 , 1 9 6 2 . A m o n g the &ug

t i o n s f o r f u t u r e a c t i v i t y : \

I . C o n t i n u e i n t e r p r e t a t i o n o f o u r o b j e c t i v e s . A t

t h i s s t a g e w e a r e c o n c e n t r a t i n g o n i d e n t i f y i n g

and l o c a t i n g m a t e r i a l s o f h i s t o r i c a l s i g n i f i c a n c e

and e n c o u r a g i n g the p r e s e r v a t i o n o f p a s t a n d

c u r r e n t r e c o r d s i m p o r t a n t t o h i s t o r y o f n u r s i n g .

T h i s w a s the p u r p o s e o f the f l y e r f o r " I d e n t i f i c a t i o n

o f H i s t o r i c a l M a t e r i a l s " s e n t ou t w i t h the r e c e n t

n e w s l e t t e r . W e f e e l that r e p o r t i n g o n the r e t u r n s

t h r o u g h the L e a g u e N e w s l e t t e r w i l l a s s i s t i n t h i s

i n t e r p r e t a t i o n a n d p r o m o t e f u r t h e r r e t u r n s .

B e c a u s e o f t he a p p a r e n t n e e d f o r c o n t i n u e d i n t e r

p r e t a t i o n , i t s e e m e d i m p o r t a n t t o m a k e a c o r r e c t i o n

o f t he e r r o r m a d e i n t y p i n g the c o m m i t t e e ' s r e p o r t

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i n t h e a n n u a l r e p o r t . T h i s w a s d o n e b y p r o v i d i n g

a c o r r e c t e d r e p o r t t o r e p l a c e p a g e 1 5 o f t h e a n n u a l

r e p o r t a n d c i r c u l a t i n g i t w i t h t h e l a s t n e w s l e t t e r .

2 . E n c o u r a g e s t u d e n t s o n a l l l e v e l s t o w r i t e o n s u b j e c t s

r e l a t i v e t o n u r s i n g h i s t o r y . C o n s i d e r h i s t o r y o f

n u r s i n g c l u b s . T h e s e w o u l d s e e m t o h a v e s p e c i a l

p o t e n t i a l i n c o l l e g i a t e s c h o o l s w h e r e o n e w o u l d

e x p e c t t o h a v e a c c e s s t o r i c h e r l i b r a r y r e s o u r c e s ;

w h e r e g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t s a r e w o r k i n g o n t h e s e s ; a n d

w h e r e h i s t o r y o f m e d i c i n e c l u b s m a y a l r e a d y b e

\ ^ f u n c t i o n i n g . H o w e v e r , s u c h p r o j e c t s i n a n y s c h o o l

m i g h t b e f r u i t f u l i n c o l l e c t i n g a n d p r e s e r v i n g d a t a

r e l a t i v e t o n u r s i n g h i s t o r y o f t h e s c h o o l , t h e a l u m n a e

a s s o c i a t i o n , a n d i n t h e l o c a l c o m m u n i t y .

C o n s i d e r e x h i b i t o f h i s t o r i c a l m a t e r i a l s a t t h e 1 9 6 2

a n n u a l c o n v e n t i o n o f t h e N . C . S t a t e N u r s e s A s s o

c i a t i o n .

4 . E x t e n d t h e c o m m i t t e e m e m b e r s h i p t o i n c l u d e p e r s o n s

r e p r e s e n t i n g o r r e l a t e d t o o t h e r f i e l d s o f n u r s i n g .

P r o b l e m s o f t i m e a n d t r a v e l h a v e n e c e s s a r i l y r e

s t r i c t e d g e o g r a p h i c a l r e p r e s e n t a t i o n .

W h e n t h e p r e s e n t c h a i r m a n w a s a p p o i n t e d , s h e w a s a s k e d t o

c o m p i l e d a t a f o r h i s t o r y o f t h e N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e o f

N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n f o r t h e y e a r s 1 9 3 8 - 1 9 5 2 f r o m t h e r e c o r d s

i n t h e f i l e s a t h e a d q u a r t e r s . T h i s r e p r e s e n t s t h e p e r i o d

f r o m t h e p u b l i c a t i o n o f t h e H i s t o r y o f N u r s i n g i n N o r t h C a r o l i

t o t h e t e r m i n a t i o n o f t h e N C L N E a n d t h e b e g i n n i n g o f t h e n e w

N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g . T h i s c a n n o t b e d o n e b y

o n e p e r s o n .

A c c o r d i n g t o a r e p o r t r e c e i v e d f r o m M i s s C a r r i e S p u r g e o n ,

t h e f o l l o w i n g m a t e r i a l s h a v e b e e n t r a n s f e r r e d f r o m t h e N o r t h

C a r o l i n a B o a r d o f N u r s e R e g i s t r a t i o n a n d N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n

t o t h e N o r t h C a r o l i n a D e p a r t m e n t o f A r c h i v e s a n d H i s t o r y :

1 . S c r a p b o o k s p e r t a i n i n g t o t h e n u r s i n g p r o f e s s i o n

( p i c t u r e s , c l i p p i n g s , e t c . ) - 1 8 9 5 - 1 9 6 1 .

2 . C o p i e s o f c e r t i f i c a t e f o r m s u s e d s i n c e 1 9 0 3 .

3 . C o p i e s o f R e q u i r e m e n t s , R e g u l a t i o n s , a n d L a w s .

1 9 0 3 -

4 . M i n u t e b o o k s . 1 9 0 3 - 1 9 5 6 ( y e a r o f r e o r g a n i z a t i o n

o f t h e B o a r d )

5 . O r i g i n a l m a t e r i a l s u s e d f o r c o m p i l i n g t h e H i s t o r y

o f N u r s i n g i n N o r t h C a r o l i n a . P u b l i s h e d i n 1 9 3 8 .

6 . L i s t s o f n u r s e s l i c e n s e d :

" R e g i s t e r e d n u r s e s " 1 9 0 3 - 1 9 5 6

" P r a c t i c a l n u r s e s " 1 9 4 7 - 1 9 5 6

T h e s e l i s t s w e r e m i c r o f i l m e d a n d t h e o r i g i n a l

r e t u r n e d t o t h e S t a t e B o a r d o f f i c e . T h e D e p a r t m e n t

of A r c h i v e s and His tory will micro f i lm subsequent

l i s ts for their fi les every five years to insure a

duplicate l ist in case of f ire or l o s s of the original

in the State Board office.

P r i o r to the transfer of the above, the mater ia l s in this office

were analyzed by staff m e m b e r s from the Department of

A r c h i v e s and His tory to determine what should be t r a n s

ferred . They m a y be examined by any one interested, with

p e r m i s s i o n from the State Board office. (A requirement of

the Department of Arch ives and His tory ) .

- -Nominat ing Commit tee

A l l e lected and appointed m e m b e r s have declined to s e r v e

as chairman. M i s s Laura B r e e s e agreed to accept the

chairmanship .

E v e r y person on the Board is requested to send a l ist of

potential off icers to M i s s Laura B r e e s e , Gaston County

f t&s Health Department , Gastonia, N. C. Off icers to be elected

^*?o this year are :

Pres ident , Second Vice Pres ident , T r e a s u r e r ,

and two m e m b e r s of the Board of D i r e c t o r s .

The next meet ing of the Board is tentatively scheduled for

September 27 , 1962 , in G r e e n s b o r o , N. C.

N O R T H C A R O L I N A S T A T E N U R S E S 1 A S S O C I A T I O N - S U M M A R Y O F N E E D S

IN NURSING E D U C A T I O N IN N O R T H C A R O L I N A B A S E D ON S U R V E Y C O N D U C T

IN 1961

One of the m o s t press ing needs in nursing in North Carol ina is the need

for m o r e and better prepared faculty for the diploma or hospital schools

of nursing. Preparat ion for teaching in hospital schools of nursing must

be obtained in a col legiate nursing education p r o g r a m . We do not have

enough people prepared in nursing and teaching to fill the faculty p o s i t i o n s ^

in the hospital schools of nursing, where m o r e than 78 percent of our (

To provide for you the m o s t accurate information poss ib le on the shortage

of diploma school faculty and the level of educational preparation of those

currently teaching in these schools , a survey was conducted late in 1961

at the request of this Assoc ia t ion , by the North Carolina Board of Nurse

Registrat ion and Nursing Education, which accredi t s these schoo l s .

Twenty - s ix of the twenty-eight hospital schools in North Carol ina part ic i

pated. This survey revealed that 2 0 . 9 percent of hospital school faculty

positions were vacant. The larges t number of vacancies were those of

instructor in m e d i c a l - s u r g i c a l nursing.

nursing students are enrol led.

Equally ser ious is the lack of adequate preparation for teaching among

the 323 nurses currently serving on hospital school facult ies . The survey

revealed that

- - 2 6 . 9 percent of hospital nursing school faculty m e m b e r s have

no preparation beyond their three -year diploma education;

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- - o n l y 34 .9 percent have a B . S . degree ;

- - o n l y 15 percent have a mas te r ' s deg ree .

There are 276 nurses employed as instructors in hospital schools of nursing. Nearly half (43 .3 percent) of them do not have a co l l ege deg ree . The survey revealed that

- - 5 6 . 8 percent of those teaching nursing fundamentals do not have a co l l ege degree ;

- - 5 3 . 2 percent of those teaching med ica l - su rg ica l nursing do not have a co l lege degree ;

- -68 percent of those teaching obstetr ic nursing do not have a co l l ege degree ; / v ^ « ^ ^

--and NONE of those teaching operating room nursing has co l l ege d e g r e e !

In the important field of public health nursing, information f rom the Nursing Section of the State Board of Health reveals that the 540 public health nurses employed in this state are not adequate for the needs of our c i t izens . Only 15 percent of those employed in public health nursing have a baccalaureate degree . Approximate ly 35 percent have comple ted the professional content of a p rogram of study in public health nursing. If m o r e qualified personnel were available, the public health nursing se rv i ce in North Carolina could be expanded. The Nursing Section states that there are too few nurses available who are prepared in public health nursing and that the competi t ion is too great for adequate staffing

The Nursing Section a lso states that only 30 of the 37 l icensed nursin homes in North Carolina employ reg is te red profess ional nurses . There" is an urgent need for additional reg is te red nurses and better prepared nurses in these homes .

There are five basic col legiate schools of nursing in North Caro l ina- -four of them state-supported. Two of these state-supported schools are in Negro c o l l e g e s . While all five offer baccalaureate p rograms in nursing two offer mas te r ' s p rograms and three offer baccalaureate p rog rams for the reg is te red nurse who has a diploma from a hospital school but wishes to earn a B . S . degree .

How well equipped are these col legiate schools of nursing to provide the educational needs of their basic baccalaureate students as well as the nurses needed for posit ions in teaching, administration, and superv is ion? These schools have a total enrollment of 616 in the basic baccalaureate p rograms , 41 in the baccalaureate p rograms for reg is te red nurses , and 17 in masters p r o g r a m s . Last year they graduated 106 students in the basic p rog rams , seven in the baccalaureate p rograms for reg is te red nurses, and 10 in the masters p r o g r a m s .

To determine the needs of these col legiate schools in te rms of faculty,) scholarship assis tance for students, and c l a s s r o o m s , l abora to r i e s , \ <^ and other faci l i t ies , a survey was conducted recently by the North Carolina State Nurses ' Assoc ia t ion . This survey revealed:

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- - 2 5 o f the 7 7 c o l l e g i a t e s c h o o l f a c u l t y m e m b e r s h a v e o n l y t h e

B . S . d e g r e e a s p r e p a r a t i o n f o r c o l l e g e t e a c h i n g ;

- - t h e r e a r e 1 4 v a c a n c i e s o n t h e f a c u l t i e s o f the c o l l e g i a t e n u r s i n g

s c h o o l s ;

- - o n l y t w o c o l l e g i a t e s c h o o l s h a v e a d e q u a t e f a c u l t y a n d f a c i l i t i e s

f o r c u r r e n t e n r o l l m e n t ;

- - s t u d e n t h o u s i n g i s o n e o f the m o s t u r g e n t n e e d s

- - a t l e a s t 1 4 a d d i t i o n a l c l a s s r o o m s f o r n u r s i n g s t u d e n t s a r e

n e e d e d n o w ;

- - t w o a d d i t i o n a l l a b o r a t o r i e s , 1 4 o f f i c e s , and l i b r a r y s e a t i n g

s p a c e f o r 6 0 s t u d e n t s a r e n e e d e d n o w .

S c h o l a r s h i p a s s i s t a n c e f o r n u r s i n g s t u d e n t s i s b e c o m i n g i n c r e a s i n g l y

i m p o r t a n t . S i x t e e n p e r c e n t o f the b a s i c n u r s i n g s t u d e n t s c u r r e n t l y a r e

r e c e i v i n g f i n a n c i a l a i d , a n d m o r e t han 3 0 q u a l i f i e d s t u d e n t s c o u l d n o t

e n r o l l l a s t y e a r b e c a u s e o f t h e l a c k o f f i n a n c i a l a s s i s t a n c e . O f the

r e g i s t e r e d n u r s e s e n r o l l e d i n b a c c a l a u r e a t e p r o g r a m s , 5 1 p e r c e n t a r e

r e c e i v i n g f i n a n c i a l a i d , and 100 p e r c e n t o f t h e n u r s e s e n r o l l e d i n m a s t e r s

p r o g r a m s a r e r e c e i v i n g f i n a n c i a l a s s i s t a n c e .

W i t h s o m a n y p r e s e n t u n m e t n e e d s , w h a t i s the p i c t u r e f o r N o r t h C a r o l i n a ' s

b a s i c c o l l e g i a t e n u r s i n g s c h o o l s f o r t h e i m m e d i a t e f u t u r e ? E s t i m a t e s that

a r e p r o b a b l y e x t r e m e l y m o d e s t s h o w that t h e s e s c h o o l s e x p e c t b y 1 9 6 6

- - 8 1 5 s t u d e n t s e n r o l l e d i n b a s i c b a c c a l a u r e a t e p r o g r a m s ;

- - 7 2 r e g i s t e r e d n u r s e s e n r o l l e d i n b a c c a l a u r e a t e p r o g r a m s ;

- - 8 0 n u r s e s e n r o l l e d i n m a s t e r s p r o g r a m s .

I t i s e x p e c t e d that 4 1 p e r c e n t o f the b a s i c s t u d e n t s , 9 3 p e r c e n t o f the*

r e g i s t e r e d n u r s e s i n b a c c a l a u r e a t e p r o g r a m s , and 100 p e r c e n t (SE^tne

n u r s e s i n m a s t e r s p r o g r a m s w i l l n e e d s c h o l a r s h i p s . T h i s w o u l d m e a n

a t o t a l o f 4 8 5 n u r s i n g s c h o l a r s h i p s w i l l b e n e e d e d i n N o r t h C a r o l i n a b y

1 9 6 6 . ~

T o p r o v i d e the q u a l i t y o f i n s t r u c t i o n n e e d e d , t h e f i v e c o l l e g i a t e n u r s i n g

s c h o o l s w i l l n e e d 6 8 a d d i t i o n a l f a c u l t y m e m b e r s and a d d i t i o n a l c l a s s r o o m s ,

l a b o r a t o r i e s , l i b r a r y f a c i l i t i e s , and d o r m i t o r y f a c i l i t i e s . S o m e o f t h e

a d d i t i o n a l f a c u l t y n e e d e d a r e f o r a d d i t i o n a l m a s t e r s p r o g r a m s and f o r a

g r e a t l y e x p a n d e d E x t e n s i o n P r o g r a m f o r r e g i s t e r e d n u r s e s c u r r e n t l y

p r a c t i c i n g i n N o r t h C a r o l i n a bu t i n n e e d o f r e f r e s h e r c o u r s e s t o h e l p

t h e m i n t e a c h i n g , c u r r i c u l u m p l a n n i n g , s u p e r v i s i o n , a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ,

and a l l p h a s e s o f b e t t e r p a t i e n t c a r e . T h e s e n u r s e s n e e d s h o r t c o u r s e s

t o k e e p t h e m u p - t o - d a t e i n n u r s i n g p r a c t i c e but a r e u n a b l e t o g i v e u p

t h e i r j o b s f o r t h e d u r a t i o n o f a f o r m a l c o l l e g i a t e e d u c a t i o n p r o g r a m .

T h e l a r g e s t o f the s t a t e - s u p p o r t e d c o l l e g i a t e s c h o o l s o f n u r s i n g n e e d s

a n e n t i r e n e w b u i l d i n g o f 7 0 , 0 0 0 s q u a r e f e e t f o r i t s u n d e r g r a d u a t e ,

g r a d u a t e , a n d e x t e n s i o n e d u c a t i o n a s w e l l a s f o r r e s e a r c h . A t a l l

s c h o o l s the n o n - p r o f e s s i o n a l p e r s o n n e l w o u l d n e e d t o b e i n c r e a s e d i n

p r o p o r t i o n t o the i n c r e a s e i n f a c u l t y and s t u d e n t e n r o l l m e n t . A n o t h e r

s c h o o l o f n u r s i n g w i l l n e e d the e q u i v a l e n t o f o n e a d d i t i o n a l d o r m i t o r y ,

and i t s s t u d e n t s n o w a r e h o u s e d i n p r i v a t e h o m e s o f t he c o m m u n i t y

b e c a u s e o f c r o w d e d c a m p u s h o u s i n g c o n d i t i o n s .

H E A L T H C A R E E R S

A r e s o l u t i o n w a s p a s s e d a t t h e D e c e m b e r 7 , 1 9 6 1 , a n n u a l m e e t i n g

o f t he N o r t h C a r o l i n a H e a l t h C o u n c i l that " t h e N o r t h C a r o l i n a H e a l t h

C o u n c i l , i n c o o p e r a t i o n w i t h o t h e r g r o u p s , o r g a n i z a t i o n s , o r i n d i

v i d u a l s i n t e r e s t e d i n the p r o m o t i o n o f H e a l t h C a r e e r s , m a k e d e f i n i t e

p l a n s t o b e g i n the s o l i c i t a t i o n o f funds a t the e a r l i e s t p o s s i b l e t i m e

w i t h t h e i d e a o f e m p l o y i n g a f u l l - t i m e s t a f f t o p r o m o t e i n t e r e s t i n

H e a l t h C a r e e r s i n a l l the v a r i o u s f i e l d s o f a c t i v i t y " .

O n M a y 2 1 , 1 9 6 2 , a m e e t i n g w a s h e l d i n W i n s t o n - S a l e m , u p o n i n v i

t a t i o n o f t he N o r t h C a r o l i n a H e a l t h C o u n c i l , t o d i s c u s s e x i s t i n g a n d

p r o p o s e d p l a n s o f v a r i o u s o r g a n i z a t i o n s f o r p r o m o t i o n o f H e a l t h

C a r e e r s a n d the p o s s i b i l i t y o f c o o r d i n a t i n g t h e s e p l a n s . R e p r e s e n

t a t i v e s f r o m N . C . S t a t e N u r s e s A s s o c i a t i o n , N . C . L e a g u e f o r

N u r s i n g , H e a l t h C a r e e r s f o r W e s t e r n N o r t h C a r o l i n a , I n c . , N . C .

M e d i c a l S o c i e t y , N . C . H e a l t h C o u n c i l , T h e D u k e E n d o w m e n t , and

N . C . H o s p i t a l A s s o c i a t i o n w e r e p r e s e n t . M r s . M a r i e N o e l l , P r e s i

d e n t , N . C . H e a l t h C o u n c i l , p r e s i d e d .

M r s . N o e l l s t a t e d tha t f o l l o w i n g t h e annua l m e e t i n g o f t h e N . C .

H e a l t h C o u n c i l i n D e c e m b e r , 1 9 6 1 , a s p e c i a l F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e

had b e e n a p p o i n t e d t o c o n s i d e r m e a n s o f r a i s i n g funds f o r t h i s p u r p o s e .

T h i s C o m m i t t e e h a d h e l d o n e m e e t i n g a n d r e c o m m e n d e d t o the E x e c u

t i v e C o m m i t t e e o f t he H e a l t h C o u n c i l that i t a t t e m p t t o o b t a i n s u p p o r t

f o r a c a r e e r s p r o j e c t f o r a p e r i o d o f t h r e e y e a r s w i t h the u n d e r s t a n d i n g

that a s m a l l a m o u n t o f t h e r e q u i r e d i n v e s t m e n t i n the p r o j e c t b e e a r

m a r k e d f o r the o p e r a t i o n o f t h e o f f i c e o f a n e x e c u t i v e s e c r e t a r y f o r

the C o u n c i l .

A r e p r e s e n t a t i v e o f t he N . C . H o s p i t a l A s s o c i a t i o n s t a t e d that o n

M a y 2 n d , the B o a r d o f T r u s t e e s o f the N o r t h C a r o l i n a H o s p i t a l A s s o

c i a t i o n h a d t a k e n a c t i o n t o i n s t i t u t e a s t a t e w i d e c a r e e r s p r o g r a m o f

s i m i l a r m a g n i t u d e . T h i s a c t i o n o f the H o s p i t a l A s s o c i a t i o n f o l l o w e d

s e v e r a l y e a r s o f p l a n n i n g b y the A s s o c i a t i o n t o w a r d a c a r e e r s p r o g r a m ,

but w a s g i v e n i m p e t u s b y a n a p p r o a c h f r o m a f o u n d a t i o n o f f e r i n g t o

a s s i s t i n f i n a n c i n g a p r o j e c t b y t h e H o s p i t a l A s s o c i a t i o n o v e r a t h r e e -

y e a r p e r i o d o n c o n d i t i o n tha t h o s p i t a l s a r e w i l l i n g t o o r g a n i z e s u c h a

p r o g r a m and p a r t i c i p a t e i n the f i n a n c i n g o f i t . I t w a s e m p h a s i z e d that,

s u c h a p r o j e c t w a s i n t e n d e d b y the A s s o c i a t i o n t o s u p p l e m e n t and n o t

s u p p l a n t w h a t o t h e r o r g a n i z a t i o n s w e r e d o i n g o r w e r e p l a n n i n g t o d o .

T h e b e l i e f w a s e x p r e s s e d , h o w e v e r , that t h e r e w a s a n e e d f o r the H e a l t h

C o u n c i l t o s e r v e i n a n a d v i s o r y c a p a c i t y t o p r e v e n t d u p l i c a t i o n o f e f f o r t

b y d i f f e r e n t g r o u p s . F u n d s w o u l d b e s o l i c i t e d and s u c h a p r o g r a m w o u l d

b e a d m i n i s t e r e d t h r o u g h the N o r t h C a r o l i n a H o s p i t a l E d u c a t i o n a n d

R e s e a r c h F o u n d a t i o n . T h e B o a r d o f T r u s t e e s o f the H o s p i t a l A s s o c i a t i o n

h a d t a k e n a c t i o n f o r the f o l l o w i n g r e a s o n s :

1 . H o s p i t a l s a r e o r g a n i z e d b o t h r e g i o n a l l y and c e n t r a l l y t o

a d m i n i s t e r a c a r e e r s p r o g r a m i n e v e r y c o m m u n i t y o f t he

s t a t e .

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2 . H o s p i t a l s e i t h e r e m p l o y o r a r e c l o s e l y a f f i l i a t e d w i t h the

g r e a t m a j o r i t y o f a l l t y p e s o f h e a l t h p e r s o n n e l and t h e r e -

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fore are interested in all professions rather than l imited

groups.

3. Hospitals have tentatively indicated a willingness to ass i s t

in financing a program on health careers .

4. The N. C. Hospital Education & Research Foundation was

incorporated over a year ago by the Hospital Associat ion for

the major purpose of administering such a program and to

solicit funds from industries which could not make tax-exempt

donations to non-incorporated organizations.

5. Hospitals now have such programs operating in one area

of the state and the Associat ion is attempting to extend it

throughout the state.

6. Hospitals are most critically affected by personnel shortages

and therefore feel a great deal of urgency in instituting a

tangible program.

7. Medical societ ies , medical auxil iaries, and hospital

auxiliaries who are vitally interested in health careers

have a close tie with hospitals.

After considerable discussion regarding the Hospital Associat ion's

proposal , this group came to the following decision:

V O T E D that this Committee , at the present t ime, bel ieves that the North Carolina Hospital Associat ion is the logical organization to sponsor, organize, and administer a statewide Health Careers project; and the Committee further bel ieves that it is important to have the endorsement and support of all health organizations; and the Committee there fore recommends to the Executive Committee of the Health Council that (1) it endorse the efforts of the North Carolina Hospital Associat ion and (2) that it appoint representatives from the major organizations directly concerned with careers activity to serve as an Advisory Committee to the North Carolina Hospital Associat ion; and this Committee further recommends that representatives of organizations at this meeting encourage favorable action from the governing bodies of their respective organizations.

IN HONOR OF MISS RUTH HAY AND MISS M A R G A R E T B L E E

\ These two retiring nursing leaders who "dared to be different" by invading the domain of male professors at the University of North Carolina, were honored at a lovely banquet at the Carolina Inn on June 1st. It was attended by approximately 170 of their admirers ,

.s_ociates, and alumnae of the School of Public Health. ^ V was a heart-warming occasion for those of us fortunate enough to

be there to hear the tributes paid them, and to learn that they will b< honored for years to come by a court to be built on the south side of /I the new School of Public Health Building, now nearing completion. It np-v is to be a place where students, faculty, and visitors can pause and If )

relax in a shaded, shrub-surrounded area with comfortable benches. JJ

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Ruth and M a r g a r e t (as they like to be called) were m o s t surpr i sed

and delighted with a leather-bound book presented them on this

occas ion. It contained m e s s a g e s sent them upon the news of their

r e t i r e m e n t - - m e s s a g e s meant to convey an appreciation of their con

tribution to public health, to society as a whole, and to the individual

profess ional growth and happiness of their students.

I N M E M O R I A M

D r . El izabeth L. K e m b l e , Dean, University of North Carol ina School

of Nursing, has made the following announcement:

"The faculty of the University of North Carol ina School of .

Nursing each year contributes to the School of Nursing Faculty

Scholarship, adminis tered by the Medica l Foundation of

North Carol ina.

Beginning this year it has been decided to name this Scholar

ship the 'Genevieve K. Bix ler Scholarship in Nurs ing' . This

will provide a continuing and living tribute to D r . Bix ler in

recognition of her many years of leadership and participation

in the field of nursing education and nursing administrat ion.

Her tragic death on June 3, 1962, in the plane crash in France

ended our w a r m profess ional and personal ties with an out

standing friend of nursing.

Many nurses in North Carol ina and the Southern Region have

been students or coworkers of D r . Bix ler and m a y wish to

be a part of this m e m o r i a l .

The Scholarship will be awarded by the University of North

Carol ina Scholarship C o m m i t t e e . Any amount you m a y feel

you can give will make it poss ib le to help one or m o r e students.

On behalf of the faculty of the School of Nursing I shall be

happy to rece ive your cash or checks . If paid by check, please

make out to: The Medica l Foundation of North Carol ina. M a r k

for: 'Genevieve K. Bix ler Scholarship in Nursing' . 1 1

Both D r . Genevieve K. Bix ler and her husband, D r . Roy W, B ix l er ,

(who died in the s a m e plane c r a s h on June 3rd) were well known in

nursing c i r c l e s . D r . Genevieve B ix ler , a graduate of Iowa State

Teachers Col lege , held a doctorate in education from Columbia

Universi ty . She had been head of the initial Nursing Projec t for

Graduate Education and R e s e a r c h , Southern Regional Education

Board, which resulted in the establ ishment of the South's f irst s ix

graduate schools .

D r . Roy W. Bixler was s e c r e t a r y - t r e a s u r e r of the A m e r i c a n Nurses

Foundation at the t ime of his death. He was a graduate of Chicago

University and held a doctorate in education from Columbia Univer

sity. He had worked c lose ly with the nursing profess ion since 1925

and had conducted the N L N study reported in Fundamentals of A d m i n

istration in Schools of Nurs ing .

The B ix l ers were guest speakers at the N C S N A and Student N u r s e s Assoc ia t ion conventions in Ashev i l l e last fal l . They will be sore ly m i s s e d by nurses and friends of nursing everywhere .

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Georg ia Nursing H o m e Assoc ia t ion Convention,

Atlanta, Georg ia , June 2 3 - 2 4 , 1 9 6 2 . Attendance

good, interest terr i f ic , perfect attendance at every

sess ion , even to the last bus iness meet ing at c l o s e

of convention.

International Conference on Health and Health

Education, Philadelphia, Pa . , June 30-July 5,

1962 . M r s . Chance was the only nursing home

adminis trator among the twelve hundred delegates

with s ixty-two countries represented .

Eas tern Dis tr ic t Meeting in Washington, N. C.

Only two adminis trators in district who have not

paid state m e m b e r s h i p dues . Predict ion -

"enthusiastic group that will accompl i sh great

things".

Joint meet ing of N. C. State N u r s e s Assoc ia t ion

and N. C. Medica l Society's Commit tee on Chroni

cal ly 111 and Aged , June 29 , 1962 , Raleigh, N. C.

N. C. State Board of Health Nursing Home A d v i s o r y

Board Meet ing, July 12, 1 9 6 2 .

- - T a r Heel Nurse reports that M r s . Edith B . Chance, 1961

president of Dis tr ic t 14, was named "Nurse of the Y e a r "

from that distr ict in a contest sponsored jointly by the

Distr ict N u r s e s Assoc ia t ion and the Al trusa Club of

Fayet tev i l l e .

m ^ Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hil l

- - T e r m i n a t i o n Date for Bachelor of Science Degree in Public

Health Nursing at University of North Carol ina - M r s . M a r g a r e t

B. Dolan, P r o f e s s o r , Public Health Nursing

After the Fa l l Quarter , 1962 , no new students wil l be admitted

to the program leading to the B . S . in Public Health Nurs ing .

A l l f o r m e r students who have completed any portion of the public

health nursing curriculum leading to a Certi f icate in Public

Health Nursing and who wish to take additional course s or c o m

plete the requirements for the baccalaureate degree are urged

to contact the Department of Public Health Nursing in the School

of Public Health at the ear l ies t poss ib le t i m e .

Faculty in the Department wil l be glad to counsel applicants and

f o r m e r students by mai l or through conferences to a s s i s t them

in developing a plan to complete the program utilizing the r e s o u r c e s

of co l leges or universi t ies c l o s e r to their h o m e s , in addition to

the res idence requirements of the University of North Carol ina .

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T h e b a c c a l a u r e a t e p r o g r a m i n p u b l i c h e a l t h n u r s i n g i n the

S c h o o l o f P u b l i c H e a l t h w i l l c o n t i n u e t o b e a v a i l a b l e t o

s t u d e n t s w h o a r e a d m i t t e d b y the F a l l Q u a r t e r , 1 9 6 2 . A l l

s t u d e n t s n e e d t o p l a n t o m e e t t he d e g r e e r e q u i r e m e n t s b y

A u g u s t , 1 9 6 6 . A f t e r t h i s d a t e g r a d u a t e n u r s e s t u d e n t s w i l l

b e r e f e r r e d t o c o l l e g i a t e s c h o o l s o f n u r s i n g w h o s e p r o g r a m s

f o r r e g i s t e r e d n u r s e s a r e a c c r e d i t e d f o r p u b l i c h e a l t h n u r s i n g

p r e p a r a t i o n .

T e r m i n a t i o n o f t h e s p e c i a l i z e d p r o g r a m i n p u b l i c h e a l t h n u r s i n g

a t the b a c c a l a u r e a t e l e v e l i s p r o m p t e d b y the c h a n g e s a n d

t r e n d s i n p r o f e s s i o n a l n u r s i n g e d u c a t i o n . T h e D e p a r t m e n t

o f P u b l i c H e a l t h N u r s i n g w a s e s t a b l i s h e d i n 1941 and a d m i t t e d

i t s f i r s t s t u d e n t s t o the s p e c i a l i z e d p r o g r a m i n p u b l i c h e a l t h -

n u r s i n g i n S e p t e m b e r o f the s a m e y e a r . T h e p r o g r a m w a s

a c c r e d i t e d b y the N O P H N i n 1 9 4 2 and h a s c o n t i n u e d t o b e

a c c r e d i t e d b y N O P H N and t h e n N L N s i n c e that t i m e . T h e

p u r p o s e o f the p r o g r a m h a s a l w a y s b e e n the p r e p a r a t i o n o f

q u a l i f i e d p u b l i c h e a l t h n u r s e s f o r p r a c t i c e i n o f f i c i a l and

v o l u n t a r y h e a l t h a g e n c i e s . T h e f a c u l t y o f t he S c h o o l o f

P u b l i c H e a l t h b e l i e v e s that a s i g n i f i c a n t c o n t r i b u t i o n t o p u b l i c

h e a l t h h a s b e e n m a d e t h r o u g h the g r a d u a t e s o f t h i s p r o g r a m .

I n v i e w o f the c h a n g i n g h e a l t h n e e d s o f c o m m u n i t i e s and the

c h a n g e s i n n u r s i n g e d u c a t i o n , t he f a c u l t y o f the D e p a r t m e n t

o f P u b l i c H e a l t h N u r s i n g n o w b e l i e v e s tha t p u b l i c h e a l t h w i l l

b e s t b e s e r v e d b y e m p l o y i n g p u b l i c h e a l t h s t a f f n u r s e s w h o

h a v e s o u n d p r o f e s s i o n a l n u r s i n g p r e p a r a t i o n s e c u r e d t h r o u g h

c o l l e g i a t e p r e p a r a t i o n f o r n u r s i n g i n c l u d i n g p u b l i c h e a l t h

n u r s i n g . T h e f a c u l t y f u r t h e r b e l i e v e s that p r e p a r a t i o n f o r

l e a d e r s h i p i n the p r o f e s s i o n o f p u b l i c h e a l t h i s b e s t p r o v i d e d

i n a S c h o o l o f P u b l i c H e a l t h o n t h e g r a d u a t e l e v e l . T h e D e p a r t

m e n t o f P u b l i c H e a l t h N u r s i n g i s t h e r e f o r e p l a n n i n g t o s t r e n g t h e n

and e n l a r g e i t s g r a d u a t e p r o g r a m i n p u b l i c h e a l t h n u r s i n g t o m e e t

the i n c r e a s i n g d e m a n d s f o r a d v a n c e d p r e p a r a t i o n i n p u b l i c h e a l t h

n u r s i n g , s u p e r v i s i o n , t e a c h i n g , a d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d c o n s u l t a t i o n .

T h e f a c u l t y o f the D e p a r t m e n t i s a v a i l a b l e t o a s s i s t a g e n c i e s

and s t a t e s i n p l a n n i n g and d e v e l o p i n g i n - s e r v i c e e d u c a t i o n p r o

g r a m s , i n c l u d i n g s h o r t c o u r s e s , w o r k s h o p s , a n d i n s t i t u t e s ,

t o m e e t the n e e d s o f t h e i r p u b l i c h e a l t h n u r s i n g s ta f f .

- M r s . E d i t h B r o c k e r , A s s i s t a n t D e a n , a n n o u n c e s n e w f a c u l t y

a t D u k e U n i v e r s i t y S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g b e g i n n i n g S e p t e m b e r 1 s t :

M i s s C a p i t o l a M a t t i n g l y b e c o m e s the D i r e c t o r o f t he

G r a d u a t e S t u d i e s i n N u r s i n g

M i s s M a r y M c R e e , I n s t r u c t o r i n N u r s i n g

M i s s J a n e t C a m p b e l l , A s s i s t a n t P r o f e s s o r i n N u r s i n g

M r s . R u t h H a r r i s , A s s i s t a n t P r o f e s s o r i n N u r s i n g and

D i r e c t o r o f the D i v i s i o n o f M e d i c a l - S u r g i c a l N u r s i n g

- M r s . M a r g a r e t B . D o l a n , C h a p e l H i l l , i s the f i r s t N o r t h C a r o l i n a

n u r s e t o b e e l e c t e d P r e s i d e n t o f the A m e r i c a n N u r s e s ' A s s o c i a t i o n .

W e i n N o r t h C a r o l i n a a r e p r o u d i n d e e d !

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- -Dr . Virginia Stone, professor of nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will attend a nursing conference sponsored by the American Red Cross Nursing Service at the National Training Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, the week of August 6th. Dr. Stone, a volunteer program consultant in nursing for the American Red Cross, will help to preview a film produced by the Red Cross regarding nursing care of the sick and injured. Ways in which the film can be used to train instructors to teach home care of the sick and injured will be discussed.

--Watts Nursing School, Durham, has been re-accredited by NLN. The hospital administration honored Mrs. Bessie Burgess and the faculty of Watts Hospital School of Nursing with a dinner Thursday evening, July 12th, at the Little Acorn, Durham, to celebrate the school's receiving National Accreditation.

The School of Nursing received the first accreditation by the National League for Nursing in 1956 and was visited again last January. The notice of continued accreditation was received July 1st.

Mrs. Burgess, Director of Nursing, on her 30th anniversary with the hospital, was presented a sterling silver charm bracelet with charms symbolizing achievements of her life. Mrs. Jessie C. O'Neill, a member of the faculty and president of the alumnae, made the presentation.

In the Piedmont

--Woman's College, Greensboro

Miss Alice Boehret attended a workshop for faculty members of the Associate Degree Program held at Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York City, during June.

Theresa Horton attended summer school session on Psychiatric Nursing sponsored by University of North Carolina at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh. Miss Horton is leaving Woman's College in August to attend the University of Pittsburgh to complete her master's degree.

- - A & T College, Greensboro

Faculty members Juna Jenkins, Julia Spight and Barbara Reid attended the Boston University Workshop in Teaching in Collegiate Schools of Nursing during June.

- Miss Julia Spight will attend Indiana University for a work conference on Public Health and University Relationships for Baccalaureate Programs.

--Guilford County Health Department announced that Mary Alice Whitfield is a new staff member in the Public Health Nursing Division. Miss Whitfield has recently completed work for a master's degree at University of North Carolina.

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^ I n the West

--Miss Mary E. Copeland, Asheville, is en route to Seattle and the World's Fair.

--Myrtle Barnette of Hendersonville served as a teller at the American Nurses' Association Convention in Detroit, Michigan. Others from the Asheville area attending the convention were: Eunice Seaborn, Mary Shepherd, William L. Wiley, Sister Patricia Doyle, Mary Copeland.

MEETINGS.

Institute on Problems in Tuberculosis Control, Lake Junaluska, August 19-22, 1962. For further information:

Mr. C. Scott Venable, Executive Director N. C. Tuberculosis Association P. O. Box 127 Raleigh, North Carolina

Workshop on Who Does the Nursing Nowadays sponsored by the NCLN and NCHA, New Bern, August 16-17, 1962, Winston-Salem, August 20-21, 1962. Write before August 1, 1962, to:

Miss Laura Harbison Maternal and Child Health Section N. C. State Board of Health Raleigh, North Carolina

Southern Tuberculosis Conference, Asheville, N. C. , September 20-21, 1962. Miss Dorothy Lunsford is acting as program chairman for nursing sessions.

Annual Meeting, N. C. Public Health Association, Raleigh, N. C, September 27-28, 1962.

Conference on Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing sponsored by American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hotel Charlotte, October 4-6, 1962, Charlotte, N. C.

Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Miami, Florida, October 15-19, 1962.

Annual Convention, N. C. State Nurses' Association, Jack Tar Hotel, Durham, N. C. , October 23-26, 1962.

Annual Meeting, Student Nurses' Association of North Carolina, Jack Tar Hotel, Durham, N. C, October 26-27, 1962.

' Southeastern Council on Family Relations and N. C. Family Life Council, Hotel Sir Walter, Raleigh, N. C. , October 21-23, 1962.

NLN Meetings and Conferences:

--Department of Hospital Nursing

A series of regional conferences for directors of hospital

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y e a r . T h e m e o f t he c o n f e r e n c e s , t h e f i r s t o f t h e i r k i n d t o

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r e a c h i n g m o r e p e o p l e a n d w o u l d a p p r e c i a t e y o u r c o o p e r a t i o n i n b r i n g i n g

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c u s s e d . M u l t i p l e c o p i e s m a y b e o r d e r e d a t t h e un i t c o s t o f 15£ p e r c o p y

f r o m the N a t i o n a l H e a l t h C o u n c i l , 1 7 9 0 B r o a d w a y , N e w Y o r k 1 9 , N . Y .

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f e r e n c e s , f i n a n c e d b y N a t i o n a l F o u n d a t i o n a n d c o n d u c t e d u n d e r a u s p i c e s

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n u r s i n g i n b a c c a l a u r e a t e d e g r e e p r o g r a m s .

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e n t i t l e d , " M e e t i n g t h e C h i l d b e a r i n g N e e d s o f F a m i l i e s i n a C h a n g i n g W o r l d "

I t s t a t e s - " T h e g r e a t d i s p a r i t y i n t h e q u a l i t y o f m a t e r n i t y c a r e a v a i l a b l e

t o p r e g n a n t w o m e n i n t h i s c o u n t r y i s u n w o r t h y o f a d e m o c r a t i c s o c i e t y ;

t h e r a n g e i s f r o m t h e b e s t f o r a f e w t o a l o w a v e r a g e f o r m a n y a n d a

b e l o w - a n y - s t a n d a r d f o r s o m e , w i t h f a r t o o m a n y g e t t i n g n o c a r e a t a l l . "

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the p u r p o s e , b e n e f i t s , a n d m e t h o d s o f c h a r t e r i n g a n F N C c l u b . 1 9 6 2 .

F r e e ( C o d e # 4 0 - 7 7 4 )

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"League Exchange: An Observational Method for Evaluating the P e r formance of Nursing Students in Clinical Situations" by Louise Rozario Gerchberg, reports how a program for evaluating student performance in clinical situations was developed by the method of measuring per formance against eight objectives; describes its actual use with two students. 1962. 46p. $ 1 . 0 0 (Code # 1 6 - 1 0 1 1 )

"Questions and Answers . . .about NLN's Department of Practical Nursing

P r o g r a m s " - a folder telling the what, how, who of NLN's newest depart

ment, what membership provides, and how to apply. 1962. F r e e

(Code # 3 8 - 8 9 9 )

Safer Ways in Nursing to Protect Against Airborne Infections, prepared by the Nursing Advisory Service of the National Tuberculosis Associat ion and the NLN, is now available through local and state tuberculosis a s s o ciations. The book, third revision of Safer Ways in Nursing to Protect Against Tuberculosis , broadens the target of earlier editions to include the general problem of all airborne infections.

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P r a c t i c a l Nurse Education 16


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Edi tor ia l Board : M i s s Agnes Campbel l , Wins ton-Salem M i s s Sylvia R . Kige r , Wins ton-Sa lem M i s s R o s e F o r g i o n e , Durham M i s s Janet Campbel l , Durham M r s . Helen M i l l e r , Durham M r s . Edith B r o c k e r , Durham M r s . Jean Las s i t e r , El izabeth City M r s . Edith Chance, Fayet tev i l le M i s s Sarah W. Korn , G r e e n s b o r o M r s . Bobb ie Co ley , Wins ton-Salem M i s s Mary Copeland, A s h e v i l l e M i s s M a r y F r a n c i s , Oteen M r s . Dixie King, Rale igh M r s . Marga re t R idge , Rale igh M i s s M i r i a m Daughtry, Rale igh M r s . Es te l le Mike l l , Durham M r s . Che r ry P a r k e r , P i t t sbo ro


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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Renewal of m e m b e r s h i p is just around the c o r n e r , and s ince the North Carol ina League for Nursing seeks to i m p r o v e nursing s e r v i c e and education through the coord ina ted ac t ion of nu r ses , a l l ied p ro fes s iona l groups and the lay publ ic , I would like to suggest that we begin s o m e in terac t ion p r o g r a m s . Interaction means getting the j o b done through communi ty par t ic ipat ion.

Many m o r e people other than nurses have a ves ted interes t in the health of the communi ty . They include the health o f f i ce r , hospital t rus tees and admin is t ra to rs , visi t ing nurse s e r v i c e , admin is t ra to rs and p o l i c y m a k e r s of c o l l e g e s and un ivers i t i es , d o c t o r s , industr ia l is ts , parents , p rac t i ca l ly e v e r y m e m b e r of the communi ty . To involve other groups and a l a rge r number of non-nurses in the League , l eade r s must involve t hemse lves m o r e thoroughly in the communi ty .

Peop le take part in planning League p r o g r a m s in two w a y s - - a s an individual m e m b e r , such as p ro fes s iona l nu r ses , p rac t i ca l nurses , a ides , a l l ied p ro fess iona l s and c i t i zens c o n c e r n e d with communi ty health. A g e n c i e s that i

provide public health nursing s e r v i c e s , and s choo l s and c o l l e g e s that conduct educational p r o g r a m s in nursing may have represen ta t ives in the League . Government agenc ie s with public health nursing s e r v i c e s may be affiliate m e m b e r s . Other health and wel fa re organizat ions may be a l l ied m e m b e r s . Bus iness f i rms may b e c o m e sustaining m e m b e r s . Individuals and agenc i e s may obtain m e m b e r s h i p through the State League for Nurs ing.

When we can define communi ty health purposes and the act ion needed to rea l i ze them, League m e m b e r s h i p wil l be no p r o b l e m . I t s imply b e c o m e s part ic ipat ion in the pursuit of mutual g o a l s .

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w e r e h e l d i n N e w B e r n a n d W i n s t o n - S a l e m i n A u g u s t , w i t h M r s .

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t o t a l o f 1 4 0 p e r s o n s , 7 6 m e m b e r s , 6 4 n o n - m e m b e r s , r e g i s t e r e d

a t t h e s e w o r k s h o p s w h e r e M r s . A p o l l o n i a A d a m s , S p e c i a l A s s i s

t an t t o t h e C h i e f , D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g , U . S . P u b l i c H e a l t h S e r

v i c e , D e p a r t m e n t o f H e a l t h , E d u c a t i o n a n d W e l f a r e , s e r v e d a s ^ si

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m u s t b e f o u n d .

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t h e n u r s i n g n e e d s o f t h e p e o p l e s h a l l b e m e t . T h i s w i l l r e q u i r e

t h e a c t i v e a n d e n t h u s i a s t i c p a r t i c i p a t i o n o f a l l L e a g u e m e m b e r s t o

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i z a t i o n s a l r e a d y e n g a g e d i n t h i s a c t i v i t y , t o o r g a n i z a t i o n s d e s i r i n g

a s s i s t a n c e i n g e t t i n g p r o g r a m s u n d e r w a y . T h e D i v i s i o n o f N u r s i n g

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p r o g r a m .

C o m m i t t e e R e p o r t s :

- - R e p o r t o f T r e a s u r e r a n d F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e - R o s e F o r g i o n e , T r e a s u r e ]

J a n . 1 , 1 9 6 2 - A u g . 3 1 , 1 9 6 2

B a l a n c e - C h e c k i n g A c c o u n t - J a n . 1 , 1 9 6 2

R e c e i p t s

$ 2 6 6 1 . 5 2

J a n . 1 , 1 9 6 2 - A u g . 3 1 , 1 9 6 2

I n d i v i d u a l M e m b e r s

A g e n c y M e m b e r s

C o n v e n t i o n

C a r e e r s C o n g r e s s

T e s t C o n s t r u c t i o n W o r k s h o p

M e d i c a l - S u r g i c a l W o r k s h o p

$ 2 0 0 0 . 0 0

1 8 0 . 0 0

7 6 7 . 4 0

9 1 . 8 0

1 8 0 . 0 0

4 5 . 0 0

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Division-Nursing Service Workshops

Total to Account For:

1020.00 $4284.20 $6945.72

Disbursements Jan. 1, 1962-Aug. 31, 1962

NLN Dues

Administration Rent Newsletter Honorarium Auditor FICA Taxes Convention Safety Deposit Box Annual Report Delegate Secretarial Services Postage Supplies P. O. Box Rent

Councils Maternal and Child Health Medical-Surgical Psychiatric

Committees Membership

Dues N. C. Health Council Southern Regional Council N. C. Council of Women's

Organizations

Divisions Nursing Service Nursing Education

$219.76 488 .48 200.00

50. 00 73. 99

516.40 4 . 4 0

116.57 225 .00 175.50 80. 77 60. 67

9. 00

2. 00 9. 96

33. 64

10.43

15. 00 75. 00

6. 00

103.38 139.93

1000.00

2220 .54

45. 60

10.43

243.31

Total Accounted For Bank Balance - Aug. 31, 1962 Total Bank Balance and Disbursements

$3615.88 3329.84

$6945.72

--Headquarters Committee Report - Rose Forgione and Agnes Campbell reporting

Miss Margaret C. Moore, University of North Carolina School of Nursing, is the new chairman.

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The Headquar te r s o f f i ce has m o v e d to a new loca t ion which is

Suite 201, 101 East R o s e m a r y S t ree t , Chapel Hill, N. C.

- -Hea l th C a r e e r s C o m m i t t e e Repor t - Betty E l l e r , Cha i rman , repor t ing

The C o m m i t t e e has held two mee t ings s ince June. Request is

m a d e for s o m e help on sett ing up s c h o l a r s h i p s . This commi t t ee

has "p i cked up" the w o r k l o r the Second Annual Health C a r e e r s

C o n g r e s s . Health C a r e e r s of W e s t e r n North Caro l ina , Inc.

has a g r e e d to pa r t i c ipa t e . Plans a re not fo rmula ted at this

point .

Sugges t ions of holding the c o n g r e s s by the end ol F e b r u a r y w

m a d e . A l s o i t was sugges t ed that a one -day C o n g r e s s o f fe red in

two different p l a c e s be c o n s i d e r e d by the Health C a r e e r s C o m

mi t t ee .

The C o m m i t t e e asked that the p o s s i b i l i t y of the North Caro l ina

League for Nurs ing p rov id ing c e n t r a l i z e d r ec ru i tmen t s e r v i c e s

and a S p e a k e r ' s Bureau for Health C a r e e r s be c o n s i d e r e d .

A s u m m a r y of the Evaluat ions Ques t ionna i r e submit ted to

students attending the Health C a r e e r s C o n g r e s s January 2 6 - 2 7 ,

1962, was p r e sen t ed to each m e m b e r .

®

-Hi s to r i ca l S o u r c e M a t e r i a l s in Nurs ing C o m m i t t e e Repor t - M a r g a r e t Johnson , Cha i rman , r epor t ing

R e v i s i o n i s r e q u e s t e d in the c o m m i t t e e ' s r epo r t c o n c e r n i n g m a t e r i a l s t r a n s f e r r e d f r o m the North Caro l ina Boa rd of Nurse R e g i s t r a t i o n and Nurs ing Educa t ion to the North Caro l ina Depa r t ment of A r c h i v e s and H i s t o r y on page 12 of the B o a r d minutes for June 14, 1962. I tem four should r ead : Minute books 1903- 1954 (yea r of r e o r g a n i z a t i o n of the B o a r d ) . Item s ix , line four , should r ead : " T h e s e l i s t s w e r e m i c r o f i l m e d and the o r i g i n a l s p r e s e r v e d in the Depar tmen t of A r c h i v e s and H i s t o r y . " At this point the s e c r e t a r y stated that minutes conta ined M i s s Johnson ' s wri t ten , v e r b a t i m r e p o r t .

Ic Ea r ly i s s u e s of the T a r Hee l Nurse needed to c o m p l e t e th in the Nor th Ca ro l ina C o l l e c t i o n , Univers i ty of North Caro l ina \ l i b r a r y , have been r e c e i v e d f r o m M r s . M a r i e Noe l l , e x c e p t / | July 1939 and F e b r u a r y 1941 . T h e s e two i s s u e s (mimeograpTn7o r

News L e t t e r s ) a r e to be dupl ica ted fo r the North Caro l ina C o l l e c t i o n f r o m the f i le c o p y a t North Caro l ina State N u r s e s A s s o c i at ion h e a d q u a r t e r s .

An o r ig ina l F l o r e n c e Night ingale le t te r has r e c e n t l y been a c q u i r e d by the Un ive r s i ty of North Ca ro l ina D i v i s i o n of Health Af fa i r s L i b r a r y .

P lans a r e p r o c e e d i n g for an exhibi t at the North Caro l ina State

N u r s e s A s s o c i a t i o n Conven t ion . H o w e v e r , s o m e expend i tu res

wi l l be n e c e s s a r y to make this a t t rac t ive and wor thwhi le , and our

c o m m i t t e e is not inc luded in the budget adopted fo r 1962. Could

the B o a r d a p p r o v e expendi ture of a p p r o x i m a t e l y $ 5 0 . 0 0 for us

this y e a r ? The exhibi t wi l l be the ch ie f i t em of expense and we

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hope to develop materials that will be useful for subsequent

exhibits.

Motion: That $ 5 0 . 0 0 requested by the chairman of Historical Source Materials in Nursing Committee for exhibit materials for the Annual Convention of the North C a r o lina State Nurses Associat ion be taken from the contingency fund and that the committee be advised to submit a budget for 1963. Motion was approved.

-Membership Committee Report - Evelyn Perry , Chairman, reporting

August 31, 1962

Total M e m b e r s Professional Nurse Practical Nurse All ied Non-Nurse Agency

Departments Hospital Nursing Public Health Nursing Diploma and Assoc iate Degree Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Practical Nursing

Councils Practical Nursing

Occupational Health

Maternal and Child Health

Psychiatric & Mental Health

Medical-Surgical

Research


•Program and Arrangements Committee Report - Miss Mary Francis , Chairman, reporting

Convention Theme: C H A L L E N G E F O R THE F U T U R E

Thursday, April 18, 1963

9:30 A . M .

2:00 P . M .

I ~ - Y

Vanderbilt Room

Board Meetings

N. C. State Nurses ' Association

Vanderbilt Room

N. C. League for Nursing

Tropical Room

6:00-9:00 P . M . Registration - Lobby

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M e m b e r s :

O n e D a y - $ 2 . 00

F u l l C o n v e n t i o n - $ 3 . 0 0

F r i d a y , A p r i l 19, 1 9 6 3

8 : 0 0 - 1 2 N o o n

9 : 0 0 - 1 0 : 3 0 A . M .

1 0 : 3 0 - 1 1 : 0 0 A . M .

1 1 : 0 0 - 1 2 N o o n

1 2 : 1 5 - 2 : 1 5 P . M .

2 : 3 0 - 3 : 3 0 P . M .

4 : 0 0 - 6 : 0 0 P . M .

N o n - M e m b e r s :

O n e D a y - $ 4 . 00

F u l l C o n v e n t i o n - $ 7 . 50

R e g i s t r a t i o n - L o b b y

O p e n i n g B u s i n e s s S e s s i o n

C o f f e e B r e a k

E a s t B a l l r o o m

K e y n o t e A d d r e s s

W e s t B a l l r o o m

S p e a k e r : R e p r e s e n t a t i v e f r o m N . L . N .

L u n c h e o n

E a s t B a l l r o o m

S p e a k e r : D r . W i l l i a m E . H i g h s m i t h

P r e s i d e n t , A s h e v i l l e - B i l t i m o r e

C o l l e g e

G e n e r a l P r o g r a m M e e t i n g

W e s t B a l l r o o m

S p e a k e r : D r . E l i z a b e t h K e m b l e

D e a n , S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g , U n i v e r s i t y

o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a

T o p i c : P r o g r e s s and C h a l l e n g e s

i n N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n

C o u n c i l P r o g r a m s

C o u n c i l o n M e d i c a l - S u r g i c a l N u r s i n g

V a n d e r b i l t R o o m

P r e s i d i n g : M i s s E l i n o r C a d d e l l

707 L o u i s e R o a d

D u r h a m , N . C .

C o u n c i l o n P s y c h i a t r i c and M e n t a l

H e a l t h N u r s i n g

S u n d i a l R o o m

P r e s i d i n g : M i s s E l l a M c C o l l

101 C l u b B o u l e v a r d

D u r h a m , N . C .

C o u n c i l o n M a t e r n a l and C h i l d H e a l t h

N u r s i n g

T r o p i c a l R o o m

P r e s i d i n g : M i s s D . M i l d r e d B e a t t y

R o w a n M e m o r i a l H o s p i t a l

S a l i s b u r y , N . C .

V o t i n g - L o b b y

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Saturday, Apri l 20, 1963

8:00-10:00 A. M.

8:30-9:30 A . M .

9:00-10:45 A. M.

11:00-12:00 Noon

12:00-1:00 P. M.

Registrat ion

Voting - Lobby

Division Meetings

General P rog ram Meeting Sundial Room

Speaker: Miss Martha Adams Di rec tor of Nursing, City Memor ia l Hospital, Winston-Salem, N. C. Top i c : P r o g r e s s and Challenges in Nursing Serv ice

FinaJ Business Session

2:00 P. M.

West Ba l l room Miss Agnes Campbell , President , Presiding

Report of Division Meetings

Report of Councils

Report of Te l l e r s

Post Convention Board Meeting Vanderbilt R o o m

All meetings will be at the George Vanderbilt Hotel, Ashevi l le , North Carolina.

--Nominating Commit tee Report - Laura S. B r e e s e , Chairman, reporting

The proposed slate of off icers is incomple te . There are no nominees for the office of president and one nominee for the office of t reasurer .

Council Repor t s :

- -Maternal and Child Health Council - Mildred Beatty, Chairman, report ing

The Steering Commit tee met on September 7th. The Commit tee is trying to ascertain needs and plan for institutes or workshops for meeting these needs . It may be we will ask for special funds for a leader in this field to help us in 1963. 1^

- -Psych ia t r i c and Mental Health Nursing Council - M r s . Ella McCol l , Chairman, reporting

Two meetings of this Council have been held since June. Work continues on the review of Act ion for Mental Health. An attempt is being made to offer a p rogram on Mental Health at the Annual

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C o n v e n t i o n , 1 9 6 3 . B e t t y J o h n s o n , a m e m b e r o f t h i s c o u n c i l ,

h a s w r i t t e n a n a r t i c l e o n M e n t a l H e a l t h f o r t he F a l l i s s u e o f the

T a r H e e l N u r s e .

A g e n d a f o r the n e x t m e e t i n g i s t o f o r m u l a t e p l a n s f o r t h r e e o n e -

d a y w o r k s h o p s w i t h the o b j e c t i v e o f r e a c h i n g i n t o g e n e r a l n u r s i n g

c a r e a n d n u r s i n g c a r e n o t s p e c i a l i z e d t o p s y c h i a t r i c n u r s i n g . T h e

t e n t a t i v e t h e m e i s , ! N u r s i n g C a r e P r o b l e m s - - A p p r o a c h e s W i t h T h e ]

D e m a n d i n g P a t i e n t " . L o c a t i o n s b e i n g c o n s i d e r e d a r e :

W e s t e r n A r e a : A s h e v i l l e , M o r g a n t o n , o r C h a r l o t t e

C e n t r a l A r e a : S a l i s b u r y

E a s t e r n A r e a : R a l e i g h , G o l d s b o r o , F a y e t t e v i l l e , o r

G r e e n v i l l e

I t w a s s u g g e s t e d that s u p p o r t b e s o u g h t f r o m the N o r t h C a r o l i n a ^

M e n t a l H e a l t h A s s o c i a t i o n . T h e r e w a s g e n e r a l a g r e e m e n t that

m e m b e r s b e c h a r g e d $ 3 . 0 0 and n o n - m e m b e r s b e c h a r g e d $ 5 . 0 0

- - M e d i c a l - S u r g i c a l C o u n c i l - E l i n o r C a d d e l l , C h a i r m a n , r e p o r t i n g

T h e n e e d t o p u b l i c i z e the e x i s t e n c e o f a M e d i c a l - S u r g i c a l

C o u n c i l w a s d i s c u s s e d . T h e r e w e r e s u g g e s t i o n s that t h i s

c o u n c i l s h o u l d b e l i s t e d o n the m e m b e r s h i p b l a n k s . N o a c t i o n

w a s t a k e n .

A p r o b l e m b e i n g p r e s e n t e d i n l o c a l a r e a s i s l a c k o f l e a d e r s h i p - -

t h e s a m e p e o p l e m u s t p r o v i d e l e a d e r s h i p o n l o c a l a n d s t a t e l e v e l s

C o n s e q u e n t l y , d e m a n d s o n t i m e a n d e n e r g i e s a r e s o g r e a t that

l o c a l c o u n c i l p r o g r a m s a r e s u f f e r i n g .

A w o r k s h o p o n " I d e n t i f y i n g B a s i c N u r s i n g C o n c e p t s " t o b e l e d

b y E l i n o r F u e r s t D a l k e o n N o v e m b e r 2 8 t h - 2 9 t h i s b e i n g p l a n n e d .

T h e l o c a t i o n h a s n o t b e e n d e t e r m i n e d .

A c t i o n o f the E x e c u t i v e C o m m i t t e e o f t he N o r t h C a r o l i n a H e a l t h C o u n c i l

R e l a t e d t o P r o p o s a l f o r H e a l t h C a r e e r s

G e o r g e H a r r i s h a d i n f o r m e d a l l m e m b e r s o f t h e B o a r d o f D i r e c

t o r s b y m e m o r a n d u m o f t h i s a c t i o n . I t w a s V O T E D :

" ( 1 ) T o e n d o r s e the e f f o r t s o f the N o r t h C a r o l i n a H o s p i t a l

A s s o c i a t i o n i n s p o n s o r i n g , o r g a n i z i n g and a d m i n i s t e r i n g

a s t a t e w i d e p r o g r a m o f r e c r u i t m e n t i n H e a l t h C a r e e r s ;

( 2 ) T o a p p o i n t a n A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e t o the N o r t h C a r o

l i n a H o s p i t a l A s s o c i a t i o n c o n s i s t i n g o f r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s

f r o m the m a j o r o r g a n i z a t i o n s d i r e c t l y c o n c e r n e d w i t h

c a r e e r s a c t i v i t i e s . "

" O n n o m i n a t i o n o f the P r e s i d e n t , i t w a s V O T E D t o a p p o i n t t he

f o l l o w i n g m e m b e r s , w i t h i n i t i a l t e r m s b e i n g s e t b y the P r e s i d e n t ,

t o s e r v e o n the H e a l t h C a r e e r s A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e t o the N o r t h

C a r o l i n a H o s p i t a l A s s o c i a t i o n :

M r s . L u l a B e l l e R i c h , C h a i r m a n

M r . G . S c o t t V e n a b l e

D r . W . P . R i c h a r d s o n

M r s . M a r i e B . N o e l l

M r s . B e t t y C . E l l e r

M r . E m o r y H u n t "

D i s c u s s i o n :

S o m e m e m b e r s o f t h e N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g B o a r d

o f D i r e c t o r s v o i c e d c o n c e r n o v e r t h e a d v i s a b i l i t y o f c e n t e r i n g

h e a l t h c a r e e r s r e c r u i t m e n t i n o n e g r o u p - - h o s p i t a l s . W o u l d t h e

i n t e r p r e t a t i o n b e l i m i t e d t o a f e w h e a l t h f i e l d s a n d e m p h a s i s b e

p l a c e d o n c e r t a i n t y p e s o f p r o g r a m s - - t h o s e u n d e r c o n t r o l o f Q

h o s p i t a l s , f o r e x a m p l e ? V

D e c i s i o n :

T h a t B e t t y E l l e r s e r v e a s a l i a i s o n m e m b e r t o t h e N o r t h C a r o

l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s u n t i l t h i s B o a r d shall*

r e c e i v e a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n a n d s p e c i f i c r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s u p o n

w h i c h t o a c t c o n c e r n i n g t h e h e a l t h c a r e e r s p r o g r a m t o b e s p o n

s o r e d , o r g a n i z e d a n d a d m i n i s t e r e d b y t h e N o r t h C a r o l i n a H o s p i t a l

A s s o c i a t i o n .

A n n o u n c e m e n t s o f A p p o i n t m e n t s o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g

R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s t o A l l i e d O r g a n i z a t i o n s

N o r t h C a r o l i n a H e a l t h C o u n c i l - M i s s e s J u n e W a t s o n a n d

C l y d e H o g s e d

N o r t h C a r o l i n a D i e t e t i c A s s o c i a t i o n - M r s , S a l l y T . H o n e y c u t t

/ N o r t h C a r o l i n a C o u n c i l o f W o m e n ' s O r g a n i z a t i o n s - M r s . R u b y

/ B a r n e s a n d M r s . E d i t h C h a n c e

N o r t h C a r o l i n a C o m m i t t e e o n N u r s i n g a n d P a t i e n t C a r e - D e a n

A n n J a c o b a n s k y a n d M i s s e s A g n e s C a m p b e l l a n d S y l v i a

K i g e r , b o t h e x - o f f i c i o

N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g C o m m i t t e e A p p o i n t m e n t s

R e q u e s t m a d e b y s e c r e t a r y t o a d d t h e f o l l o w i n g t o l i s t p u b l i s h e d

J u l y , 1 9 6 2 :

H e a d q u a r t e r s C o m m i t t e e : M i s s M a r g a r e t C . M o o r e , C h a i r m a n

U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a

S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g , C h a p e l H i l l

H e a l t h C a r e e r s C o m m i t t e e M e m b e r s : S \

M i s s M a r g a r e t B r o w n , G u i l f o r d C o u n t y H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t , \ \

G r e e n s b o r o , N . C . I

M r . G e o r g e P . H a r r i s , 1 5 0 0 N . C . N a t i o n a l B a n k B u i l d i n g ,

C h a r l o t t e , N . C .

R e p o r t o f S p e c i a l C o m m i t t e e - P r o j e c t : A p p l i c a t i o n f o r G r a n t A s s i s t a n c e

f r o m F o u n d a t i o n f o r N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g P r o g r a m P r o j e c t

B a c k g r o u n d S t a t e m e n t

M a n y p r o g r a m s o f t h e N a t i o n a l L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g h a v e b e e n a n d

c o n t i n u e t o b e f i n a n c e d b y g r a n t s f r o m F o u n d a t i o n s . S e v e r a l S t a t e

L e a g u e s f o r N u r s i n g h a v e o b t a i n e d F o u n d a t i o n g r a n t s t o f i n a n c e o r

t o a s s i s t i n f i n a n c i n g S t a t e L e a g u e p r o g r a m s .

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I n v e s t i g a t i o n s w e r e m a d e b y a m e m b e r o f t he B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s

a s e a r l y a s 1957 a s t o the p o s s i b i l i t y o f the p r o g r a m o f the N o r t h

C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g b e i n g w i t h i n t h e s c o p e o f F o u n d a t i o n ' s

i n t e r e s t .

T h e P r e s i d e n t o f the N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g w a s i n

s t r u c t e d b y the B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s a t the P o s t C o n v e n t i o n B o a r d

M e e t i n g , M a r c h I 9 6 0 , t o a p p o i n t a S p e c i a l C o m m i t t e e t o p r e p a r e

a p r o j e c t d e s i g n f o r the N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g t o b e

p r e s e n t e d t o a F o u n d a t i o n o r F o u n d a t i o n s r e q u e s t i n g g r a n t a s s i s

t a n c e ( F u n d s ) f o r the L e a g u e ' s P r o g r a m o f A c t i v i t i e s . / •

T h e S p e c i a l C o m m i t t e e w a s a p p o i n t e d i n A p r i l I 9 6 0 . M e m b e r s

w e r e : V y

M i s s E s t h e r S u m p , C h a i r m a n \^v\^ M i s s V i v i a n C u l v e r \ y \

\ \ M r . J o s e p h B a r n e s \ \

\ A f t e r e x p l o r a t i o n and s t u d y the S p e c i a l C o m m i t t e e r e q u e s t e d

a u t h o r i z a t i o n f r o m the B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s t o s e c u r e p r o f e s s i o n a l

a s s i s t a n c e and funds n e c e s s a r y t o c a r r y ou t i t s a s s i g n m e n t ( B o a r d

M e e t i n g I 9 6 0 ) .

M r s . H a z e l T r o t t e r o f t he T r o t t e r P u b l i c R e l a t i o n s A g e n c y o f

C h a r l o t t e , N . C . , w o r k e d w i t h the C o m m i t t e e i n p r e p a r i n g the

p r o j e c t d e s i g n w h i c h w a s m a i l e d t o t h e m e m b e r s o f the B o a r d a

f e w d a y s p r i o r t o the P r e - C o n v e n t i o n B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s m e e t i n g

M a r c h 1 9 6 1 .

T h e B o a r d m a d e m i n o r c o r r e c t i o n s and a d d i t i o n s t o the p r o j e c t

d e s i g n , v o t e d a p p r e c i a t i o n t o the m e m b e r s o f t he C o m m i t t e e , a n d

r e c o m m e n d e d that the n e w B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s p r o c e e d w i t h the

d e v e l o p m e n t o f t he p r o j e c t a n d f i nd w a y s o f i m p l e m e n t i n g i t .

T h e p r e s e n t C o m m i t t e e w a s a p p o i n t e d b y the B o a r d i n p a s t c o n v e n

t i o n m e e t i n g M a r c h 1 9 6 1 :

M i s s A . S u e K e r l e y , C h a i r m a n

M i s s A g n e s C a m p b e l l

M r . R e u b e n G r a h a m

T h e B o a r d i n s t r u c t e d the C o m m i t t e e " t o g i v e c o n t i n u i t y t o t h i s

p r o j e c t i n w o r k i n g w i t h the T r o t t e r A g e n c y and a s k t h e m h o w t o

p r o c e e d and that t h e C o m m i t t e e f o l l o w t h r o u g h t o the n e x t s t e p s

r e c o m m e n d e d a t t he P r e - C o n v e n t i o n B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s m e e t i n g . "

( P a g e 3 2 - A n n u a l R e p o r t s 1 9 6 2 )

T h e S p e c i a l C o m m i t t e e h a s f u n c t i o n e d o n a c o n t i n u i n g Dasis f r o m

i t s a p p o i n t m e n t .

T h e p r o j e c t d e s i g n w a s r e - w r i t t e n t o i n c l u d e a d d i t i o n s and c o r r e c

t i o n s a u t h o r i z e d b y the B o a r d . T h e C h a i r m a n s p e n t s e v e r a l h o u r s

w i t h M r s . T r o t t e r i n C h a r l o t t e i n M a r c h f o r c a r e f u l s t u d y o f t he

d e s i g n . T h r e e c o p i e s o f t he r e w r i t e w e r e p r e p a r e d f o r the C o m m i t t e e

a n d the T r o t t e r s r e c o m m e n d e d that t he a p p l i c a t i o n f o r F o u n d a t i o n

s u p p o r t o f the p r o j e c t b e m a d e t o the M a r y R e y n o l d s B a b c o c k F o u n

d a t i o n o f W i n s t o n - S a l e m , N . C .

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The Commit tee studied the des ign careful ly and after s eve ra l

c o n f e r e n c e s and consultat ions dec ided :

To r e c h e c k all mater ia l and stat is t ics bringing the content up-to-date through I960 and to cover^a_ten^ year pe r iod f rom 1950-1960 in so far as data w e r e available in all a reas mentioned in the project plan

To p repare charts and graphs to support s ta t i s t ics .

To rewr i te s o m e sec t ions of the p r o j e c t .

To p repa re a Bib l iography .

To have the entire p ro j ec t edited and set up for tiple c o p i e s by pe r sons ski l led in these a r e a s .

In June 1961 c o p i e s of the p ro j ec t w e r e sent to the Sec re t^ r^yjjf^t+ie Boa rd of D i r e c t o r s of the B a b c o c k Foundation. Ti t le of the p ro j ec t was A P r o p o s a l for Meeting the Nursing Needs of the Peop le of North Carol ina by the North Carol ina League for Nurs ing.

The p ro j ec t des ign p r o p o s e s a p r o g r a m of ac t iv i t ies o v e r a three year pe r iod at a c o s t of $50, 000. 00

In September the newly appointed Execut ive D i r e c t o r of the B a b c o c k Foundation contacted a m e m b e r of the Commi t t ee for C o n f e r e n c e . He advised against present ing the format applicat ion to the Foundation due to appl icat ions being examined by the Foundation. The Execut ive D i r e c t o r of the Foundation advised the Commi t t ee to make appl icat ion to the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.

In N o v e m b e r 1961 fo rma l applicat ion was made to the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for grant a ss i s t ance to the North Carol ina League for Nursing.

In January 1962, the Pres iden t was notified that the Foundation did not act favorably on our request for funds.

The Commi t t ee dec ided to bring our data up- to-da te through 1961, to add additional support ive mater ia l and to present the appl icat ion fo rma l ly to the M a r y Reynolds B a b c o c k Foundation.

The Commi t t ee met with the Execut ive D i r e c t o r to d i s c u s s the p ro j ec t and to g ive genera l informat ion of the p r o g r a m and the organiza t ion . He sugges ted a "Supplement" spel l ing out in outline the p r o p o s e d p r o g r a m .

F o r m a l applicat ion was made in late Apr i l for cons ide ra t ion at the meet ing of the Foundat ion 's Board of D i r e c t o r s in June.

June 8, 1962, the P res iden t was advised that "The D i r e c t o r s of the Foundation e x p r e s s e d regre t that sufficient funds w e r e not avai lable to pe rmi t grants to all wor thy appl icat ions be fo re them and that your reques t for a grant of $50, 000. 00 o v e r a three year pe r iod could not be honored" .

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T h e S p e c i a l C o m m i t t e e m e m b e r s a r e d i s a p p o i n t e d tha t t h e

F o u n d a t i o n t o w h i c h a p p l i c a t i o n f o r f u n d s w a s m a d e d i d n o t

a c t f a v o r a b l y o n o u r r e q u e s t . H o w e v e r , w e f e e l t h e p r o j e c t

a w o r t h y o n e f o r F o u n d a t i o n s u p p o r t .

T h e C o m m i t t e e w o u l d l i k e t h e B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s t o d i s c u s s

t h e p r o j e c t , t h e C o m m i t t e e ' s w o r k t o i m p l e m e n t t h e p r o j e c t ,

a n d t o r e d i r e c t a n d / o r d e t e r m i n e n e x t s t e p s o f t h e S p e c i a l C o m

m i t t e e f o r t h e p r o j e c t d e s i g n .

B o a r d R e c o m m e n d a t i o n : T h a t t h e L o n g R a n g e P l a n n i n g C o m

m i t t e e s t u d y t h e g o a l s t o w a r d w h i c h t h e L e a g u e w i s h e s t o m o v e

p r i o r t o a n y f u t u r e a c t i o n b y t h e S p e c i a l P r o j e c t C o m m i t t e e .

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E X C E R P T S F R O M K E Y N O T E A D D R E S S F O R T H E W O R K S H O P " W H O D O E S

T H E N U R S I N G N O W A D A Y S ? " P R E S E N T E D B Y M R S . A P O L L O N I A A D A M S

" . . . A s o u r f i r s t s t e p i n l o o k i n g a t w h o d o e s t h e n u r s i n g n o w a d a y s ,

w e n e e d t o c o n s i d e r w h a t i s c l a s s i f i e d a s n u r s i n g - - w h a t a r e t h e b o u n d

a r i e s o f n u r s i n g ? A r e w e t a l k i n g a b o u t n u r s i n g a s a p a t i e n t c a r e a c t i v

i t y ? O r a r e w e t a l k i n g a b o u t n u r s i n g a s b e i n g t h o s e a c t i v i t i e s w h i c h

g i v e ' h o t e l s e r v i c e ' i n i n s t i t u t i o n s f o r p a t i e n t s ? B e f o r e a t t e m p t i n g a n

a n a l y s i s o f w h o d o e s t h e n u r s i n g , l e t u s c o n s i d e r s o m e o f t h e s p e c i f i c

f a c t o r s i n v o l v e d .

1 . O n e i s a v a i l a b i l i t y o f p e r s o n n e l - - a n d t h i s i s a v a i l a b i l i t y

o f t h e p r o f e s s i o n a l n u r s e , a v a i l a b i l i t y o f t h e p r a c t i c a l n u r s e ,

o r a n y o f t h e o t h e r s w h o a s s i s t w i t h n u r s i n g c a r e .

2 . B u d g e t i s a n o t h e r f a c t o r . B u t h o w t h e m o n e y i s s p e n t i s

a n i m p o r t a n t a d m i n i s t r a t i v e d e c i s i o n n o t e n t i r e l y b a s e d o n t h e

a v a i l a b i l i t y o f p e r s o n n e l . U n l e s s a d m i n i s t r a t i o n k n o w s w h a t

q u a l i t y s e r v i c e i s a n d h o w t o a c h i e v e i t , i t m a y b e p a y i n g f o r

o n e t h i n g a n d g e t t i n g s o m e t h i n g e l s e .

3 . A n o t h e r i m p o r t a n t f a c t o r i s t h e i n d i v i d u a l n u r s e ' s i d e a

o f ' s t a t u s a c t i v i t y ' . I s t h e m a s s a g i n g o f p a p e r s a t a h e a d n u r s e ' s

d e s k c o n s i d e r e d a s t a t u s s y m b o l o v e r a n d a b o v e t h e m a s s a g i n g

o f p a t i e n t s ? A l s o , r a c i a l s t a t u s m a y i n f l u e n c e s o m e o f t h e s e

c o n c e p t s i n s o m e p a r t s o f t h e c o u n t r y .

4 . A n o t h e r f a c t o r i n f l u e n c i n g w h o d o e s t h e n u r s i n g i s t h e

a m o u n t a n d k i n d o f s u p e r v i s i o n a v a i l a b l e . A g r e a t e r n u m b e r

o f n o n p r o f e s s i o n a l s i n t h e s t a f f i n g p a t t e r n i s p o s s i b l e i f t h e

s u p e r v i s i o n i s a d e q u a t e , a n d b y a d e q u a t e I m e a n q u a l i t y s u p e r

v i s i o n , n o t j u s t n u m b e r s . W i l l m a n a g e m e n t f u n c t i o n w h e n t h e r e

a r e l a r g e n u m b e r s o f n o n p r o f e s s i o n a l p e r s o n n e l w h o d o n o t h a v e

a d e q u a t e s u p e r v i s i o n ? W h o , t h e n , i s r e s p o n s i b l e f o r s a f e c a r e ?

T h i s i s a n a d m i n i s t r a t i v e p o l i c y d e c i s i o n .

5 . T h i s l e a d s u s i n t o a n o t h e r f a c t o r w h i c h i n f l u e n c e s w h o d o e s

t h e n u r s i n g , a n d t h i s i s t h e q u a l i t y o f a d m i n i s t r a t i o n . M o r e t h a n

h a l f o f o u r t e a c h e r s i n o u r n u r s i n g e d u c a t i o n p r o g r a m s a r e w h a t

w e c a l l q u a l i f i e d f o r t h e i r p o s i t i o n s - - t h a t i s , t h e y h a v e a d e g r e e .

W e a l s o k n o w tha t i n t h e n u r s i n g s e r v i c e a r e a t h e r e a r e f e w e r

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n u r s i n g d i r e c t o r s ( o n l y 3 4 p e r c e n t ) a n d s u p e r v i s o r s ( o n l y 1 6

p e r c e n t ) p r e p a r e d f o r t h e i r r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s . A n d w h e n w e

l o o k a t t h e p r e p a r a t i o n o f h e a d n u r s e s , o n l y 7 p e r c e n t a r e

q u a l i f i e d i n o u r i n s t i t u t i o n s f o r t h e i r p o s i t i o n s . W e a l s o n e e d

t o l o o k a t t h e p r e p a r a t i o n o f t n e n o n - a d m i n i s t r a t i v e p e r s o n n e l .

O u r p r o f e s s i o n a l n u r s e s - - o u r R . N . ' s - - a r e g r a d u a t i n g f r o m a

v a r i e t y o f e d u c a t i o n a l p r o g r a m s - - t w o - y e a r p r o g r a m s , t h r e e -

y e a r p r o g r a m s , f o u r , f o u r a n d a h a l f , f i v e , f i v e a n d a h a l f y e a r

p r o g r a m s , e t c . O n l y a l i t t l e m o r e t h a n 5 0 p e r c e n t o f a l l o u r

p r o g r a m s h a v e f u l l L e a g u e a c c r e d i t a t i o n , w h i c h i s a m e a s u r e

o f q u a l i t y . W e n e e d t o l o o k a t t h e p r e p a r a t i o n o f t h e p r a c t i c a l

n u r s e . W a s s h e p r e p a r e d t h r o u g h a n o r g a n i z e d e d u c a t i o n a l

p r o g r a m , o r w a s s h e l i c e n s e d m e r e l y b y w a i v e r ? T h e n c l o s e l y

a s s o c i a t e d w i t h p r e p a r a t i o n o f p e r s o n n e l i s t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i v e

p e r s o n n e l ' s k n o w l e d g e o f t h e p r e p a r a t i o n tha t g o e s i n t o t h e

v a r i o u s s k i l l l e v e l s .

6 . T h e r e i s s t i l l s o m e t h i n g e l s e t h a t

n u r s i n g c a r e , a n d t ha t i s o u r s t a f f i n g

s t a f f i n g p a t t e r n s o f o u r h o s p i t a l s , w e

a p a t t e r n f r o m w h a t e x i s t s .

i n f l u e n c e s w h o d o e s t h e

p a t t e r n s . I n s t u d y i n g t h e

f i n d tha t w e c a n n o t d e v e l o p

7 . T h e n w e h a v e s t i l l a n o t h e r i t e m o r t w o r e l a t i n g t o f a c t o r s

t h a t m i g h t i n f l u e n c e w h o g i v e s t h e n u r s i n g c a r e . A s y o u k n o w ,

w e h a v e s o m e s a c r e d c o w s o f n u r s i n g . T h e r e a r e c e r t a i n r o u t i n e

p r o c e d u r e s w h i c h m u s t b e d o n e i n a s p e c i f i c w a y o r t h e y a r e d o n e

' w r o n g ' . O n e o f t h e s a c r e d c o w s i s tha t a l l p a t i e n t s n e e d a b a t h

e v e r y d a y , a n d i n t h e m o r n i n g . A l s o , a l l p a t i e n t s a r e s e r v e d

s u p p e r a t 4 : 3 0 , a c c o r d i n g t o h o s p i t a l s c h e d u l e s , a n d a l l o f t h e m

w a n t t o g e t u p o r b e a w a k e n e d a t l e a s t b e t w e e n f i v e a n d s i x i n

t h e m o r n i n g . T h e r e a r ^ t w o o t h e r p r a c t i c e s tha t a r e b e c o m i n g

s a c r e d c o w s i n n u r s i n g . O n e i s tha t t he h e a d n u r s e o r c h a r g e

n u r s e i s r e s p o n s i b l e f o r t h e p a t i e n t ' s c a r e o n l y f o r h e r s h i f t - -

n o t f o r t h e f u l l 2 4 h o u r s . S e c o n d l y , t h e f u n c t i o n s o f t h e s u p e r v i s i n g

n u r s e h a v e a l m o s t c r y s t a l l i z e d i n t o tha t o f a v e r y g l o r i f i e d , e x p e n

s i v e c l e r k a n d m e s s e n g e r i n m o s t o f o u r i n s t i t u t i o n s . T h e r e a r e

s a c r e d c o w s i n m a n a g e m e n t , t o o . A l l j o b s tha t a r e n o n - n u r s i n g

c a n b e d o n e b y n u r s e s w h e n t h e r e g u l a r s t a f f o f j a n i t o r s , d i e t i t i a n s ,

l a u n d r y w o r k e r s , p h a r m a c y e m p l o y e e s , s w i t c h b o a r d o p e r a t o r s ,

e t c . a r e n o t t h e r . e .

W h o n o w g i v e s t h e p a t i e n t c a r e tha t r e q u i r e s n u r s i n g s k i l l s ? S o m e o f

"the t r e a t m e n t s a r e g i v e n b y t h e p r o f e s s i o n a l n u r s e , b u t i f t h e r e i s n ' t

a p r o f e s s i o n a l n u r s e a v a i l a b l e , t h e n t h e p r a c t i c a l n u r s e m i g h t g i v e s o m e

o f t h e s e t r e a t m e n t s . H o w e v e r , t h e p r a c t i c a l n u r s e w h o h a s h a d a g o o d

e d u c a t i o n a l b a c k g r o u n d h a s b e e n t a u g h t w h a t h e r l i m i t a t i o n s a r e , a n d

o f t e n r e f u s e s t o d o t h e k i n d s o f t h i n g s tha t s h e s h o u l d n ' t b e d o i n g . T h e n

t h e a i d e , w h o ' s h a d e v e n l e s s t r a i n i n g a n d l e s s k n o w l e d g e o f w h a t t h e

d a n g e r s m a y b e , m a y c a r r y o u t t h o s e p r o c e d u r e s w h i c h t h e p r a c t i c a l

n u r s e k n o w s e n o u g h n o t t o d o .

W h a t a r e n u r s e s d o i n g i n r e l a t i o n t o t h e v a r i o u s r e s p o n s i b i l i t y l e v e l s

i n n u r s i n g b y t i t l e o f j o b ?

T h e H a g e n - W o l f f s t u d y f i n d i n g s r e v e a l e d tha t t h e d i r e c t o r o f n u r s i n g

s e r v i c e w a s p e r c e i v e d a s p r o v i d i n g l e a d e r s h i p i n t h e a r e a s o f e s t a b

l i s h i n g g o o d h u m a n r e l a t i o n s a m o n g n u r s i n g s e r v i c e p e r s o n n e l ; i m

p r o v i n g n u r s i n g s e r v i c e b y o b t a i n i n g a d e q u a t e e q u i p m e n t , s u p p l i e s ,

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a n d p e r s o n n e l ; i n e n f o r c i n g a n d a d a p t i n g h o s p i t a l p o l i c i e s ; i n p r o m o t i n g

i n t r a d e p a r t m e n t a l u n d e r s t a n d i n g w i t h i n t h e h o s p i t a l ; i n i m p r o v i n g

n u r s i n g s e r v i c e c a r e t o p a t i e n t s ; a n d p r o v i d i n g f o r i n - s e r v i c e g r o w t h

o f p e r s o n n e l . T h e d i r e c t o r o f n u r s i n g s e r v i c e d i d n o t p e r c e i v e h e r s e l f

n o r w a s s h e p e r c e i v e d b y o t h e r s a s p r o v i d i n g l e a d e r s h i p i n l o n g - r a n g e

p l a n n i n g , i n d e v e l o p i n g a p h i l o s o p h y o f n u r s i n g w i t h h e r s t a f f , o r i n

h e l p i n g t o d e f i n e n u r s i n g - s e r v i c e f u n c t i o n s . D i r e c t o r s o f n u r s i n g s e r

v i c e w e r e p e r c e i v e d t o b e g e n e r a l l y i n e f f e c t i v e i n h a n d l i n g p e r s o n n e l

a n d s h o w e d a r e l u c t a n c e o r i n a b i l i t y t o a n a l y z e a p r o b l e m s i t u a t i o n .

I n c i d e n t s tha t w e r e r e p o r t e d b y t h e m o r o n t h e m s h o w e d t ha t t h e y t e n d e c

t o t a k e a c t i o n t o t r e a t t h e s y m p t o m r a t h e r t h a n t h e u n d e r l y i n g c a u s e . ^

W h a t d o e s y o u r s u p e r v i s i n g n u r s e d o ? T h e s u p e r v i s o r s ' i n l a r g e

h o s p i t a l s s h o w e d a d e f i n i t e s u p p o r t i v e l e a d e r s h i p r o l e . T h e i r l e a d e r - )

s h i p r o l e o v e r l a p p e d t h a t o f t h e d i r e c t o r o f n u r s i n g s e r v i c e i n m o t i

v a t i n g p e r s o n n e l t o g i v e b e t t e r c a r e t o p a t i e n t s ; i n p r o m o t i n g g o o d C \

h u m a n r e l a t i o n s w i t h n u r s i n g s e r v i c e p e r s o n n e l , a n d i n i m p r o v i n g \

c o m m u n i c a t i o n s w i t h i n n u r s i n g s e r v i c e . T h e i r l e a d e r s h i p r o l e o v e r - ^

l a p p e d t ha t o f t h e h e a d n u r s e i n p r o v i d i n g d i r e c t c a r e t o p a t i e n t s a n d

i n t h e w i s e u t i l i z a t i o n o f t i m e a n d p e r s o n n e l . S u p e r v i s o r s , f r o m t h e

d a t a i n t h i s s t u d y , a p p e a r e d t o b e v e r y i n e f f e c t i v e i n h a n d l i n g p e r s o n

n e l , d o i n g l o n g - r a n g e p l a n n i n g , a n d i n p r o b l e m - s o l v i n g o f t h e t y p e

r e p r e s e n t e d b y t h e i n e f f e c t i v e i n c i d e n t s o f b e h a v i o r . '

T h e h e a d n u r s e ' i n l a r g e h o s p i t a l s a p p e a r e d t o h a v e t h e w i d e s t o p p o r

t u n i t i e s f o r l e a d e r s h i p b e c a u s e t h e n a t u r e o f h e r j o b r e q u i r e d tha t s h e

w o r k w i t h o r t h r o u g h t h e l a r g e s t v a r i e t y o f p e r s o n n e l . H e a d n u r s e s i n

l a r g e h o s p i t a l s w e r e p e r c e i v e d a s h a v i n g t h e m a j o r l e a d e r s h i p r o l e i n

p r o v i d i n g d i r e c t c a r e t o p a t i e n t s a n d i n c o o r d i n a t i n g t h e e f f o r t s o f t h e

h o s p i t a l , c o m m u n i t y , a n d n u r s i n g s e r v i c e f o r t h e w e l f a r e o f t h e p a t i e n t

T h e y h a d a n i m p o r t a n t s e c o n d a r y l e a d e r s h i p r o l e i n p r o m o t i n g h a r m o n y 1

a n d m o t i v a t i n g n u r s i n g s e r v i c e p e r s o n n e l . '

W e h a v e n o i n f o r m a t i o n o n t h e n u m b e r o f t e a m l e a d e r s i n i n s t i t u t i o n s o ]

o n t h e p r e p a r a t i o n o f t e a m l e a d e r s . I t i s n o w t h o u g h t , h o w e v e r , t ha t t h

t e a m l e a d e r s h o u l d h a v e a t l e a s t b a c c a l a u r e a t e p r e p a r a t i o n . A c o m p a r

a b l e p o s i t i o n t o t e a m l e a d e r i n t h e f i e l d o f p u b l i c h e a l t h i s t h e R . N . w i t ;

p r e p a r a t i o n i n p u b l i c h e a l t h .

T h e n e w e s t d e v e l o p m e n t i n t h e h o s p i t a l s i t u a t i o n i s t h e c l i n i c a l s p e c i a l i

T h i s i s t h e n u r s e w h o i s t h e e x p e r t i n n u r s i n g c a r e a n d u s u a l l y r e q u i r e }

m a s t e r ' s l e v e l p r e p a r a t i o n t o a c q u i r e t h e s e s k i l l s a n d d e p t h i n k n o w l e d j

S h e i s n o t i n a n a d m i n i s t r a t i v e p o s i t i o n . S h e i s t h e o n e w h o w i l l b e u se j

a s a c o n s u l t a n t i n t h e n u r s i n g s e r v i c e a r e a t o d e m o n s t r a t e h o w t o g i v e

e x c e l l e n t c a r e a n d w i l l p r o b a b l y b e w o r k i n g o n s o m e p r o b l e m s t o i m

p r o v e p a t i e n t c a r e . A c o m p a r a b l e p o s i t i o n i n t h e f i e l d o f p u b l i c h e a l t h

i s t h e c o n s u l t a n t w h o i s t h e e x p e r t p u b l i c h e a l t h n u r s e . T h e c l i n i c a l

s p e c i a l i s t o r c o n s u l t a n t i s a s p e c i a l i s t i n o n e a r e a s u c h a s m a t e r n i t y

n u r s i n g , m e d i c a l n u r s i n g o r s u r g i c a l n u r s i n g , e t c .

P r a c t i c a l n u r s e s a r e b e i n g u s e d i n m o s t i n s t i t u t i o n s t o d a y . T h e r e i s

s t i l l r a t h e r l i m i t e d u s e o f t h e p r a c t i c a l n u r s e i n t h e p u b l i c h e a l t h f i e l d

b e c a u s e t h i s i s a s i t u a t i o n i n w h i c h t h e e m p l o y e e i s n o t e v e n i n t h e s a m

b u i l d i n g - - s h e m a y b e m i l e s a w a y . T h e r e f o r e t h e r e w i l l a l w a y s b e l e s s

u s e o f p r a c t i c a l n u r s e s i n t h e h o m e d u e t o t h e d i f f i c u l t i e s o f s u p e r v i s i o :

I n n u r s i n g h o m e s t h e r e i s a g r e a t s c a r c i t y o f n u r s i n g p e r s o n n e l w i t h

a l l k i n d s o f i n d i v i d u a l s g i v i n g n u r s i n g c a r e . T h e s e s t a t i s t i c s I h a v e

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are f rom 1956, but still indicat ive of what is o c c u r r i n g . Only two out of five p rop r i e t a ry nursing homes have a r e g i s t e r e d p ro fes s iona l nurse on the staff at any t ime in a 24 hour pe r iod ; an additional o n e -fourth of the homes have a l i c ensed p rac t i ca l nurse as the highest l eve l of skil l and this nurse may have been l i c ensed by w a i v e r . Last ly, there is still one-four th of the homes which emp loy neither a r eg i s te red p ro fes s iona l nurse or a l i censed p rac t i ca l nurse . Who does the/7i nursing in these s i tua t ions?

What can be done to p rov ide m o r e nursing by p ro fess iona l nu r se s , as wel l as by p rac t i ca l n u r s e s ? F i r s t , let us r ev i ew what is o c c u r r i n g Who g ives the c a r e ? What is tne skil l l eve l of the pe r sonne l , an for what kinds of pat ients? What are the d iagnoses and age g r o u p ^ s ^ ^ of the pat ients? What are the seve r i t i e s of i l l n e s s ? What are the t reatments o r d e r e d for these pat ients? Observa t ions , done scient i f i ca l ly , in all a reas of c a r e , could bring a great new era in nursing c a r e - - a real r ena i s sance . After these observa t ions have been m a d e ; you can have a rede lega t ion of duties and r e spons ib i l i t i e s , based on the analysis of the findings, and plan your redelegat ion in t e r m s of the full 24 hours of c a r e in an institution.

It is interest ing to note that cer ta in t reatments requ i re a p ro fe s s iona l nurse if they a re given between 7 and 3 in a hospi tal , but only a p r a c t ical nurse or an aide is requi red for this same t reatment if i t ' s g iven between 3:30 and 7:00 A . M . There are s o m e t reatments which defini tely requ i re a public health nurse between 8:00 and 5:00, but which a m e m b e r of the family or ne ighbor can do evenings and Saturday and Sunday. The l o g i c that we have used as to who g ives the nursing c a r e is at t imes quite faulty. In addition, staffing patterns a re not based on patient needs but on the hours of employment des i r ab le to staffs. How many outpatient departments or health departments do you know that have evening hours for cer ta in c l i n i c s for the conven ience of pa t ients?

Newer ideas are emerg ing as to who may do the nursing nowadays In a few p r o g r e s s i v e a reas in the country there is a change of the present ro l e of the superv is ing nurse f rom the m o s t c o s t l y c l e r k ( co s ider ing her sa lary range) into that of superv is ing nurse of a unit ancf\ eliminating the head nurse pos i t ion . By having s o m e o n e with the knowledge and ski l ls of a qualified supervis ing nurse in charge of a nursing unit, d i rect ing team l e a d e r s , e t c . , we might give a much supe r io r type of c a r e - - t h i s might resul t in a great deal m o r e p ro fes s iona l nurse c a r e of patients.

The spreading of nursing p r o c e d u r e s ove r a 24-hour load is being t r ied in a few institutions with much s u c c e s s . Trea tments are g iven around the c l o c k on a 24-hour bas is during intensive, short hospi ta l izat ion per iods which we now have for many of our patients. In the past, it was c o m m o n p r a c t i c e to g ive t reatments only during the 7 :00-3:30 shift. As the team leadersh ip staffing concep t p r o g r e s s e s - - p r o v i d i n g it is used in the manner in which it was intended to be used and provid ing the team leaders a re qualified for their respons ib i l i t i e s - - the whole p ic ture of who does the nursing may change. And for the nurse this is a l so a way to continue working at the patient 's beds ide in giving c a r e without having to leave this a rea to gain p re s t i ge .

Our national l eaders are suggest ing a c l in ica l spec ia l i s t for each s p e c i alty area in a l a rge h o s p i t a l - - m e d i c i n e , su rge ry , o b s t e t r i c s , ped ia t r i c s ,

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a n d p s y c h i a t r y . T h e s e s p e c i a l i s t s c o u l d t h e n d e m o n s t r a t e a n d t e a c h

a n d b e a v a i l a b l e f o r c o n s u l t a t i o n o n t h e g i v i n g o f e x p e r t n u r s i n g c a r e .

T h e n e w e r r o l e o f t h e t e a c h e r i s t ha t o f t h e e x p e r t p r a c t i t i o n e r i n

n u r s i n g - - n o t s o m e o n e t e a c h i n g t h e o r y i n a c l a s s r o o m , b u t s o m e o n e

w h o c a n t e a c h t h e t h e o r y a n d c o m b i n e i t w i t h b e d s i d e p r a c t i c e i n t h e

t e a c h i n g o f the n u r s e o f t h e f u t u r e .

T h e r e a r e n e w m e t h o d s o f m a n a g e m e n t b e i n g d e v e l o p e d , s u c h a s w o r k

s i m p l i f i c a t i o n , w o r k d e s i g n , s y s t e m s a n a l y s i s a n d o p e r a t i o n s r e s e a r c h

a n d m a n y o f t h e s e c a n b e a d a p t e d t o n u r s i n g s e r v i c e s i n a n d o u t o f i n

s t i t u t i o n s .

W h o k n o w s w h a t c r e a t i v e t a l e n t s y o u h a v e w h i c h c a n b e d e v e l o p e d a n d

w h a t n e w e r w a y s w i l l d e t e r m i n e w h o w i l l g i v e t h e n u r s i n g c a r e t o m o r

r o w ? 1 1

P R A C T I C A L N U R S E E D U C A T I O N - M i s s M i r i a m D a u g h t r y , R . N .

T h e r e a r e f i f t e e n V o c a t i o n a l P r o g r a m s o f P r a c t i c a l N u r s e E d u c a t i o n

i n o p e r a t i o n w i t h t h i r t y - e i g h t R e g i s t e r e d N u r s e T e a c h e r s e m p l o y e d .

T h r e e n e w p r o g r a m s i n K e n a n s v i l l e , W a y n e s v i l l e a n d F a y e t t e v i l l e hkvej

b e e n o r g a n i z e d s i n c e J u l y 1 9 6 2 a n d e i g h t n e w t e a c h e r s h a v e b e e n e m p l o y

T h e P r a c t i c a l N u r s e E d u c a t i o n t e a c h e r s h a v e h a d a b u s y s u m m e r . I n

a d d i t i o n t o t h e i r r e g u l a r t e a c h i n g w h i c h i s a t w e l v e m o n t h j o b , m o s t

o f t h e m a t t e n d e d S u m m e r S c h o o l a t N o r t h C a r o l i n a S t a t e C o l l e g e ,

C o o r d i n a t o r ' s W o r k s h o p o f t h r e e d a y s , a n d t h e A n n u a l T r a d e a n d I n d u s

t r i a l E d u c a t i o n C o n f e r e n c e . T h r e e P r a c t i c a l N u r s e E d u c a t i o n t e a c h e r s

h a d t h e p r i v i l e g e o f a t t e n d i n g t h e f i r s t L e a d e r s h i p C o n f e r e n c e h e l d a t

N o r t h C a r o l i n a S t a t e C o l l e g e .

T h e t e a c h e r s h a v e o r g a n i z e d a P r a c t i c a l N u r s e E d u c a t i o n S e c t i o n w i t h

a C o n s t i t u t i o n a n d B y - L a w s , O f f i c e r s a n d a n E x e c u t i v e C o m m i t t e e . T h e

o b j e c t o f t h i s o r g a n i z a t i o n i s t o e l e v a t e a n d m a i n t a i n s t a n d a r d s i n P r a c

t i c a l N u r s e E d u c a t i o n P r o g r a m s , t o i m p r o v e t h e q u a l i t y o f n u r s i n g s e r

v i c e t o t h e S t a t e , a n d t o e n c o u r a g e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f l e a d e r s h i p q u a l

i t i e s a m o n g t h e m e m b e r s h i p .

M u c h p r o g r e s s h a s b e e n m a d e i n P r a c t i c a l N u r s e E d u c a t i o n s i n c e t h e

f i r s t V o c a t i o n a l P r o g r a m w a s o r g a n i z e d i n J u n e 1 9 4 8 i n D u r h a m , N o r t h

C a r o l i n a . T h e r e h a v e b e e n a p p r o x i m a t e l y 2 0 0 0 s t u d e n t s g r a d u a t e d a n d

l i c e n s e d a s P r a c t i c a l N u r s e s s i n c e t ha t y e a r . A f o l l o w - u p s t u d y f o r

o n e y e a r s h o w e d t h e r e w e r e 9 0 % o f t h e g r a d u a t e s i n t h e o c c u p a t i o n f o r

w h i c h t h e y w e r e t r a i n e d w i t h t h e f i v e y e a r f o l l o w - u p s t u d y o f 8 1 % r e

m a i n i n g i n t h e o c c u p a t i o n . P r a c t i c a l N u r s e E d u c a t i o n i s o n t h e m o v e

w i t h p r o g r e s s a s t h e g o a l .

P E O P L E , P R O G R A M S , P L A C E S I N N O R T H Q

I n t h e E a s t

- - T h e W o m e n ' s A u x i l i a r y o f A l b e m a r l e H o s p i t a l , E l i z a b e t h C i t y ,

h a s v o t e d a $ 5 0 0 s c h o l a r s h i p f o r h e a l t h c a r e e r s . A s e r i e s o f

p r o g r a m s f o r i n t e r e s t e d h i g h s c h o o l s e n i o r s i n t h e f i v e c o u n t y

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area served by the hospital is being planned. These p rograms will be devoted to ca r ee r s in health. The scholarship will be awarded in the spring of 1963.

- - M i s s Bess i e Draper , public health nurse in Dare County, has recently re t i red due to i l lness , after 21 years of s e rv i ce to the people of Dare County and to public health. She r ece ived a citation this spring for her untiring efforts during the Ash Wednesday s torm. She a lso has r ece ived a letter of commendat ion from the North Carolina Public Health Assoc ia t ion . The Dare County paper a lso did a feature ar t ic le on her many years of devoted s e rv i ce to that county.

- - M r s . Lois Hines, Chief Nurse of VA Hospital, Nursing Serv ice , Fayettevi l le , has been transferred to Coral Gables , F lor ida .

--Edith B. Chance purchased a 35-bed Nursing Home in Deland, Flor ida , October 1st. She has just returned to Fayettevil le after supervising the transfer in operation.

- -Dis t r i c t #14 Student Nurses ' fund has reached the $1, 029 mark . The fund was established to aid nursing students in Harnett, Sampson and Cumberland Counties. The pro jec t was initiated by the sale of the cookbook "Cooking With Our Caps Off".

- -Cape Fear Valley Hospital 's Graduate Staff sponsored a s y m posium "Nursing In The 6 - T ' s " on October 3rd in Fayet tevi l le . During the morning M r s . Eloise Lewis , P r o f e s s o r , University of North Carolina School of Nursing, d i scussed "Nursing Trends in the Sixt ies" . "The Law and the Nurse" was the subject of a talk given by M r . W. C. Harr is , Jr. , Attorney for the North Carolina Board of Nurse Registrat ion and Nursing Education. In the afternoon M r . J. O. Tally, Jr. , a lawyer, talked about "Health of the Body Po l i t i c" , and a panel d iscuss ion , "The Whole Patient" was moderated by Dr . Harold Godwin, Chief of Staff, Cape Fear Valley Hospital. There were 200 nurses in attendance.

Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill

- - M i s s Julia M. Mil le r joined the staff of the North Carolina Board of Nurse Registrat ion and Nursing Education as Educational Consultant on October 1, 1962. Miss Mil ler , a nationally recogn ized authority on nursing education, recently completed an assignment in India for the U. S. State Department. She served as Admin i s trative and Educational Consultant in Nursing assigned to the International Cooperat ion Administrat ion. Her educational background includes B . S . and M. A. Degrees f rom the University of Minnesota. Her profess ional exper ience includes work with the National League of Nursing Education as Assistant in the Accred i t ing Serv ice and later as Executive D i r ec to r . Miss Mil le r has been dean of two universi ty schools of nursing, Emory University, Emory , Georgia , and Arkansas University School of Nursing, Fayettevil le , Arkansas . In addition, she has had extensive exper ience in nursing education and nursing s e r v i c e . Many nurses in North Carolina will r e m e m b e r Miss Mi l l e r for her valuable contribution to the 1950 study, "Nursing and Nursing Education in North Carol ina".

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M i s s Mar ion E. M c G r a t h has accepted an appointment as

Educational Consultant to the North Carolina Board of Nurse

Registrat ion and Nursing Education. A native of Connecticut,

M i s s McGrath is a graduate of Presbyter ian Hospital , C o l u m

bia University , in New Y o r k . She earned her M . S . Degree from

the University of Pennsylvania. Her experience includes: In

s tructor-Coordinator of F ie ld W o r k P r o g r a m s and Direc tor of

Clinical Instruction at the Univers i ty of Pennsylvania; D irec tor

of the School of Nursing and Nursing Service at the Robert B.

Green Hospital , San Antonio, T e x a s ; and as Ass i s tant D irec tor

of Nursing Serv ices , Southeastern A r e a , A m e r i c a n Red C r o s s .

M i s s McGrath and M i s s M i l l e r succeed M i s s El izabeth Stanley

and M r s . Ruby Barnes who have res igned. M i s s Stanley has

joined the educational staff of St. El izabeth's Hospital , Wash ing

ton, D. C. , and M r s . Barnes is now Ass i s tant Direc tor of

Nursing Education at Rex Hospital School of Nursing, Rale igh.

The Department of Nursing at North Carol ina Col lege , Durham,

is p leased to announce the following appointments:

Patr ic ia Harlan Conklin, B . S . N . Duke Universi ty School

of Nursing, M. P. H. Univers i ty of North Carolina, has

been appointed Ass i s tant P r o f e s s o r of Public Health Nursing.

Juanita Benton, R . N . Baptist Hospital , M e m p h i s , T e n n e s

see , B . S . Universi ty of Tennes see , Certif icate in Psychiatr ic

Nursing, University of Tennes see , M . S . N . Universi ty of

North Carol ina, M a j o r - - P s y c h i a t r i c Nursing, has been

appointed Ass i s tan t P r o f e s s o r of Psychiatr ic Nursing.

Seven North Carol ina nurses , together with five out-of -s tate

participants, took part in Duke Workshop in Maternal and

Child Health Nursing in June.

•Miss Capitola Mattingly, Duke Universi ty School of Nursing,

was the keynote speaker at the W e s t Virginia State N u r s e s '

Assoc ia t ion Convention in Huntington, W e s t Virginia , on O c t o

ber 16th. Her topic was "A Concept of Exce l l ence in Nursing".

At the s a m e Convention she spoke to the Industrial Nurse Section

on "Communicat ions".

•Formal dedication of the Univers i ty of North Carol ina School

of Public Health building will take place Apr i l 6th and 7th,

1963 , i t has been announced by Edward G. M c G a v r a n , M . D . ,

Dean. T h e m e of the program will be "Schools of Public Health:

Past , Present , and Future". Included will be a s er i e s of s y m

posia dealing with the role of schools of public health in con

t e m p o r a r y society. A lumni and public health pract i t ioners in

all fields of activity are invited to be present . Further infor

mation m a y be obtained by writing to the Dean, School of

P U D H C Health, Drawer 229 , University of North Carolina,

Chapel Hil l , North Carol ina.

-Julia D. Smith, A s s o c i a t e P r o f e s s o r of Public Health Nursing

at Universi ty of North Carol ina School of Nursing, spoke to the

State Public Health nursing group on "Philosophy and Changes

i n N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n " a t t he r e c e n t A n n u a l M e e t i n g o f t h e

P e n n s y l v a n i a H e a l t h W o r k e r s ' C o n f e r e n c e a t P e n n s y l v a n i a

S ta te U n i v e r s i t y .

- T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g h e l d a

c e r e m o n y i n C h a p e l H i l l o n O c t o b e r 5th f o r c h a r t e r m e m b e r s

i n i t i a t e d i n t o i t s n e w h o n o r a r y s o c i e t y - - S i g m a T h e t a T a u ,

A l p h a A l p h a C h a p t e r . O n h a n d f o r the i n i t i a t i o n w e r e n a t i o n a l

r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s o f S i g m a T h e t a T a u , D r . C a t h e r i n e M c C l u r e ,

U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h , and D r . E d n a T r e a s u r e , W a s h i n g t o n ,

D . C . , b o t h o u t s t a n d i n g m e m b e r s o f t he n u r s i n g p r o f e s s i o n .

I t w a s the 4 0 t h a n n i v e r s a r y o f t he n a t i o n a l h o n o r a r y s o c i e t y .

S i g m a T h e t a T a u i s t he o n l y n a t i o n a l h o n o r a r y s o c i e t y o f n u r s i n g

i n the U n i t e d S t a t e s , and the U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a c h a p t e r

i s the t w e n t y - t h i r d t o g a i n m e m b e r s h i p . T o b e e l i g i b l e , c o l

l e g i a t e s c h o o l s o f n u r s i n g m u s t b e f u l l y a c c r e d i t e d b y the N a t i o n

a l L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g a t a l l p r o g r a m l e v e l s , a n d the c h a p t e r h a s

t o b e u n a n i m o u s l y a p p r o v e d b y a l l o t h e r c h a p t e r s i n the U n i t e d

S t a t e s . M e m b e r s h i p i s d i v i d e d i n t o t h r e e c l a s s e s : r e g u l a r ,

a s s o c i a t e , and h o n o r a r y , and c a n d i d a t e s a r e c h o s e n f o r s c h o

l a s t i c a c h i e v e m e n t , p r o f e s s i o n a l p r o m i s e a n d d e s i r a b l e p e r

s o n a l c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s . I n i t i a t e d w e r e D r . E l i z a b e t h L . K e m b l e ,

D e a n o f U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g , and t h e

f i r s t f a c u l t y m e m b e r t o b e i n i t i a t e d i n to the A l p h a A l p h a C h a p t e r .

F i v e s t u d e n t s c u r r e n t l y e n r o l l e d i n s c h o o l , a l l s e n i o r s , w e r e

i n i t i a t e d . T w e n t y - f i v e n e w m e m b e r s f r o m the a l u m n a e w e r e

p r e s e n t f o r the c e r e m o n y .

- R e c e n t f a c u l t y a p p o i n t m e n t s a t U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a

S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g :

R u t h D a l r y m p l e r e t u r n s t o the U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a

S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g f o l l o w i n g a t w o - y e a r l e a v e d u r i n g w h i c h

s h e h a s b e e n w o r k i n g o n h e r d o c t o r a t e i n the D e p a r t m e n t o f

B i o s t a t i s t i c s a t U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h . M i s s D a l r y m p l e

h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d a s s i s t a n t d e a n a n d p r o f e s s o r o f n u r s i n g .

C l a u d i a L . B a r n e s i s a n i n s t r u c t o r i n c o m m u n i t y n u r s i n g .

M i s s B a r n e s w a s f o r m e r l y a p u b l i c h e a l t h n u r s e w i t h the

G u i l f o r d C o u n t y H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t , G r e e n s b o r o .

E . D e a n n a C r o s s i s a n i n s t r u c t o r i n m e d i c a l - s u r g i c a l

n u r s i n g . M i s s C r o s s h a d e x p e r i e n c e a s a s t a f f n u r s e a t

V e t e r a n ' s A d m i n i s t r a t i o n C e n t e r , M o u n t a i n H o m e , T e n n e s

s e e , and s h e i s a f o r m e r n u r s i n g a r t s i n s t r u c t o r a t G r a c e

H o s p i t a l , M o r g a n t o n .

M a r t h a C . D a v i s i s a n i n s t r u c t o r i n p s y c h i a t r i c n u r s i n g .

M i s s D a v i s h a s b e e n d i r e c t o r o f t he a t t e n d a n t ' s e d u c a t i o n

p r o g r a m , a n d a p s y c h i a t r i c n u r s i n g i n s t r u c t o r i n the a f f i l

i a t e s c h o o l f o r n u r s e s a t D o r o t h e a D i x H o s p i t a l , R a l e i g h .

B e v e r l y D i c k e n s L o y i s a n i n s t r u c t o r i n m e d i c a l - s u r g i c a l

n u r s i n g . M r s . L o y h a s b e e n a s t a f f n u r s e a t N o r t h C a r o l i n a

M e m o r i a l H o s p i t a l , and f o r t h e p a s t y e a r s h e h a s b e e n w o r k i n g

o n h e r M . S . N , d e g r e e a t U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a .

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Dorothy Drummond has been appointed an instructor in

m e d i c a l - s u r g i c a l nursing. M i s s Drummond has been a

general staff nurse , ass is tant head nurse and head nurse

at New Y o r k Hospital .

Nancy Gill i land will be an instructor in O P D nursing. M i s s

Gi l l i land f s experience includes staff nursing in the polio

units at Lutheran Hospital , Vicksburg, M i s s i s s i p p i , and

at Central Carol ina Convalescent Hospital , G r e e n s b o r o .

She has a l so been a staff nurse , head nurse and ass is tant

director of nursing s e r v i c e s at Charlotte M e m o r i a l Hospita l .

Sandra D. Reed will be an instructor in materna l -ch i ld

health nursing. F o r m e r l y she was a staff nurse at T e x a s

Children 1 s Hospital , Houston, T e x a s .

Virginia Li Wang of Rale igh has been appointed a par t - t ime

instructor in nutrition. M r s . Wang has been a dietition at

M t . Sinai Hospital and head r e s e a r c h dietition at Montef iore

Hospital .

Faye M. White will be an instructor in materna l - ch i ld health

nursing. M r s . White ' s experience includes staff nursing at

Medica l Col lege Hospital , Charleston, South Carol ina, and

Pitt M e m o r i a l Hospital , Greenvi l l e , North Carol ina. She has

a lso been a charge nurse at Medica l Col lege Hospital .

- - S e e July Nursing Outlook for Ruth Pres ton's art ic le , "Add

Meaning to Your Hospital Census". M i s s Pres ton is a r e s e a r c h

assoc ia te in the department of preventive medic ine , Univers i ty

of North Carol ina School of Medic ine .

- - M a r g a r e t Haynes , Ass i s tant P r o f e s s o r , University of North

Carolina School of Nursing, is the author of an art ic le , "Teaching

Continuity of Care" , in the M a y i ssue of A m e r i c a n Journal of

Nursing.

- - T h r e e faculty m e m b e r s from Duke University have co-authored

an art ic le cal led "Lupus Erythematosus"- -June i s sue of A m e r i

can Journal of Nurs ing . They are : Clyde M. Hogsed, ass is tant

p r o f e s s o r of nursing and acting director of m e d i c a l - s u r g i c a l

nursing department; E m i l y B. Campbel l , ass is tant p r o f e s s o r and

director of the division of general nursing; and Dr . Morton D.

Bogdonoff.

In the Piedmont

- - T h e Conference on Obstetr ic , Gynecologic and Neonatal

Nursing, October 4th, 5th, 6th, in Charlotte , had an excellent

attendance of 400 plus. Severa l North Carol ina nurses took

part in the Conference . M r s . Katherine B. Nuckol ls , ins truc

tor, Univers i ty of North Carol ina School of Nursing, Chapel

Hil l , moderated a panel of recently del ivered m o t h e r s . The

panel title: " R e m e m b e r , I Had the Baby". Johnsie Patterson,

head nurse , gynecology, North Carol ina M e m o r i a l Hospital , was

one of the panelists who d i scussed "Preparation and Care of the

Patient Requiring Hys terec tomy". Ann R u s s e l l , chairman, d e

partment of maternal child health nursing, Universi ty of North

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Carolina School of Nursing, spoke on "The Responsibi l i t ies of the Nurse in Post Partum Care" . M r s . Faye Mewborn White, instructor, University of North Carolina School of Nursing, spoke on "Responsibi l i t ies of the Labor Room Nurse" .

- - A t Woman's Col lege , Greensboro , graduation of the nursing students took place September 30th with M r s . Eva W. Warren, Dean, School of Nursing, East Carolina Col lege , as speaker for the o c c a s i o n .

- - M r s . Pat Vaughn, graduate of University of North Carolina School of Nursing, has joined the staff of the Guilford County Health D e partment. Miss Blanche Sawyer, who has a B . S . from the School of Nursing at Chapel Hill, has also joined the staff. She has a midwifery cert if icate and has had previous exper ience with the Haywood and Cherokee County Health Departments, as well as 18 years as a nurse for the Presbyter ian Church in the Belgian Congo.

- - M r s . Margaret Dolan, new President of Amer ican Nurses ' A s s o ciation, was honored by a recept ion at the banquet at the 60th Convention of North Carolina State Nurses ' Assoc ia t ion in Durham on the evening of October 29th. North Carolinians are ext remely proud to claim her as the first Southerner to be e lected to this high of f ice . Relat ives and l i fe- long friends of M r s . Dolan were invited without her knowledge. The banquet was an o c c a sion long to be r e m e m b e r e d . We were greatly entertained by the inimitable recitation of events in her life that led up to this high posi t ion. Our hearts were warmed by the pra ise heaped upon her on this o c c a s i o n .

the West

- - T h e program and arrangements commit tee , Miss Mary Franc i s , chairman, has been busy with plans for the 1963 meeting in Ashe v i l le . Mark your calendar for Apri l 18th-20th.

- - M i s s Peggy Stubbs has been appointed as Inservice Educational instructor at Memor ia l Miss ion Hospital.

- -New ideas for teenage voluntary s e rv i ce in St. Luke's Hospital, Tryon, N. C. , are embodied in St. Luke's Junior Volunteer p r o gram. Unique is the group of four young people working in r o tation in nursing, laboratory, X - r a y and physical therapy. They were selected because each had a definite ro le in the health s e r v ices in mind. They are offered an academic program with a weekly seminar on ethics, health s e rv i ce organization, the h i s tory of hospitals , and c a r e e r s in the health f ie lds . Their p r e ceptors are Mr . Raymond T. McHugh, St. Luke's administrator , and Dr . Joseph C. Placak, Jr . , Tryon physician.

- -Anyone having extra copies of the May 1950 and March 1951 issues of the Amer ican Journal of Nursing, p lease contact M r s . Susan Cappel, Di rec tor of Nursing Education, Broughton Hospital, Morganton, N. C.

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M E E T I N G S

W o r k s h o p s

- - I d e n t i f y i n g the B a s i c C o n c e p t s o f N u r s i n g , N o v e m b e r 2 8 - 2 9 ,

1 9 6 2 . S p o n s o r e d b y M e d i c a l - S u r g i c a l C o u n c i l , N o r t h C a r o

l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g . T i m e a n d p l a c e w i l l b e a n n o u n c e d b y

s p e c i a l m e m o t o a l l D i r e c t o r s o f N u r s i n g E d u c a t i o n .

- - B e t t e r U t i l i z a t i o n o f C l i n i c a l F a c i l i t i e s f o r the T e a c h i n g o f

O b s t e t r i c s and P e d i a t r i c s . S c h e d u l e d f o r l a t e M a r c h 1 9 6 3 .

S p o n s o r e d b y M a t e r n a l and C h i l d H e a l t h C o u n c i l , N o r t h C a r o

l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g . M o r e d e t a i l s l a t e r .

- - N u r s i n g C a r e P r o b l e m s - - A p p r o a c h e s W i t h T h e D e m a n d i n g

P a t i e n t . T h r e e o n e - d a y w o r k s h o p s i n d i f f e r e n t p a r t s o f t he

s t a t e a r e i n the p l a n n i n g s t a g e b y the P s y c h i a t r i c N u r s i n g

C o u n c i l , N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g . M o r e d e t a i l s

l a t e r .

A n n u a l M e e t i n g s

- - N o r t h C a r o l i n a H e a l t h C o u n c i l , D e c e m b e r 1 1 , 1 9 6 2 , S i r

W a l t e r R a l e i g h H o t e l , R a l e i g h , N . C .

- - N o r t h C a r o l i n a M e n t a l H e a l t h A s s o c i a t i o n , F e b r u a r y 1 5 - 1 6 ,

1 9 6 3 , S i r W a l t e r R a l e i g h H o t e l , R a l e i g h , N . C .

- - N o r t h C a r o l i n a L e a g u e f o r N u r s i n g , A p r i l 1 8 - 2 0 , 1 9 6 3 ,

G e o r g e V a n d e r b i l t H o t e l , A s h e v i l l e , N . C .


^ N e w P u b l i c a t i o n s I

- - C r i t e r i a f o r the E v a l u a t i o n o f E d u c a t i o n a l P r o g r a m s i n N u r s i n g

L e a d i n g t o a n A s s o c i a t e D e g r e e . 1 9 6 2 . 1 2 p p . 5 0 c e n t s .

( C o d e N o . 1 6 - 1 0 2 4 ) T h e r e s u l t o f a f i v e - y e a r s t u d y b y j u n i o r

c o l l e g e a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a n d n u r s i n g i n s t r u c t o r s , the m e m b e r s

o f the D e p a r t m e n t o f D i p l o m a and A s s o c i a t e D e g r e e P r o g r a m s

i n v o l v e d i n a s s o c i a t e d e g r e e p r o g r a m s , and o t h e r p e r s o n s c o n

c e r n e d w i t h e v a l u a t i o n o f s u c h p r o g r a m s i n n u r s i n g .

- - C a r e o f the P a t i e n t H a v i n g H e m o d i a l y s i s o r P e r i t o n e a l D i a l y s i s .

A L e a g u e E x c h a n g e i t e m . 1 9 6 2 . 3 7 p p . 7 5 c e n t s . ( C o d e N o .

1 4 - 1 0 2 6 ) A t e a c h i n g uni t d e v e l o p e d b y g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t s o f t he

C a t h o l i c U n i v e r s i t y o f A m e r i c a ( a s e q u e l t o F l u i d and E l e c t r o l y t e

B a l a n c e , L e a g u e E x c h a n g e N o . 3 6 , C o d e N o . 1 4 - 7 1 6 ) .

- - R e p o r t o f a S t u d y o f A c c r e d i t a t i o n P r o c e d u r e s . 1 9 6 2 . $ 1 . 0 0 .

( C o d e N o . 1 5 - 1 0 2 9 ) T h i s r e p o r t o f a s t u d y c o n d u c t e d b y the D e

p a r t m e n t o f B a c c a l a u r e a t e and H i g h e r D e g r e e P r o g r a m s i n c l u d e

f i n d i n g s r e l a t e d t o c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f the b a c c a l a u r e a t e b a s i c

n u r s i n g p r o g r a m s i n the s a m p l e a s w e l l a s t h o s e r e l a t e d t o a c - j

c r e d i t a t i o n p o l i c i e s , p r o c e d u r e s , a n d p r a c t i c e s .

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- - S t a t e m e n t s R e g a r d i n g P r a c t i c a l N u r s i n g a n d P r a c t i c a l N u r s i n g

E d u c a t i o n . 1 9 6 2 . 1 8 p p . 5 0 c e n t s . ( C o d e N o . 3 8 - 1 0 2 7 ) A n e w

p u b l i c a t i o n o f t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f P r a c t i c a l N u r s i n g P r o g r a m s

tha t b r i n g s t o g e t h e r f o u r i m p o r t a n t s t a t e m e n t s d e v e l o p e d b y

s p e c i a l c o m m i t t e e s o n p r a c t i c a l n u r s i n g s i n c e 1 9 5 8 . T h e s u b

j e c t s o f t h e s t a t e m e n t s a r e a s f o l l o w s :

N L N P h i l o s o p h y R e l a t i n g t o P r a c t i c a l N u r s i n g

C h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f E d u c a t i o n f o r P r a c t i c a l N u r s i n g

A b i l i t i e s N e e d e d b y T e a c h e r s o f P r a c t i c a l N u r s i n g

C o n t i n u i n g E d u c a t i o n f o r t h e L i c e n s e d P r a c t i c a l N u r s e

- - T u b e r c u l o s i s C o n t r o l i n C h i l d r e n : C a s e F i n d i n g . P r e p a r e d b y

t h e W i s c o n s i n I n t e r o r g a n i z a t i o n C o m m i t t e e o n T B N u r s i n g a n d

r e l e a s e d b y t h e N u r s i n g T u b e r c u l o s i s A s s o c i a t i o n . 1 9 6 1 . 3 p p .

2 0 c e n t s . ( C o d e N o . 4 5 - 1 0 0 6 )

- - C o l l e g e C o n t r o l l e d P r o g r a m s i n N u r s e E d u c a t i o n L e a d i n g t o a n

A s s o c i a t e D e g r e e . A l i s t i n g b y s t a t e s o f c o l l e g e s o f f e r i n g A D

p r o g r a m s i n n u r s i n g . 1 9 6 2 . F r e e ( o r d e r s o f m o r e t h a n f i v e ,

5 c e n t s e a c h ) ( C o d e N o . 1 6 - 8 7 1 ) 2 p p .

- - H o w t o O r g a n i z e a n d E x t e n d C o m m u n i t y N u r s i n g S e r v i c e s f o r t h e

C a r e o f t h e S i c k a t H o m e . $ 2 . 5 0 p e r c o p y . ( C o d e N o . 2 1 - 1 0 2 8 )

N u r s i n g i n t h e S p o t l i g h t

- - L o o k a r t i c l e ( S e p t e m b e r 1 1 , 1 9 6 2 i s s u e ) a b o u t n u r s i n g e d u c a t i o n .

- - G o o d H o u s e k e e p i n g ( S e p t e m b e r ) a r t i c l e a b o u t ' d r a f t i n g g i r l s '

f o r n u r s i n g a n d r e l a t e d h e a l t h a n d w e l f a r e s e r v i c e s .

- - T h e N u r s e s , a n e w T V s e r i e s t ha t s t a r t e d S e p t e m b e r 2 7 t h o v e r

C B S . N L N s t a f f h a s s e e n o n l y t h e p i l o t f i l m a n d c a n n o t c o m m e n t

o n t h e s e r i e s a s a w h o l e . E v e r y o n e i s u r g e d t o w a t c h i t a n d

s e n d c o m m e n t s a n d o p i n i o n s t o y o u r l o c a l s t a t i o n , t h e n e t w o r k

o r t h e p r o g r a m ' s s p o n s o r s .

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