Utah Nurse

Utah Nurse: The Official Publication of the Utah Nurses Association. Utah Nurse has been published quarterly since 1946 for the Utah Nurses Association, a constituent member of the American Nurses Association. Sent to RNs and LPNs throughout Utah, Utah Nurse provides a forum for members to express their opinions and become aware of healthcare issues in the state of Utah.

UTAH NURSE September Issue 1952 vol. 3 no. 4 OFFICIAL ' PUBLICATION OF UTAH STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION In This Issue • U.S.N.A. Convention Program • Biennial Reports • Annual Committee Reports • District Reports • Hospital News • News Notes }I Guest Speaker of U.S.N.A. Convention ••• Miss Marion W. Sheahan see page 5 The UTAH NURSE The Staff of the UTAH have been diligently striving make your Official Publication every member can be proud of that every member will want to ceive. We have tried to gather from Districts, Alumnaes, pitals, and all Sections and mittees, that you might be kept formed of the activities of friends and fellow nurses as as keep up on the progress and ings of your association. We we have met with ·a degree of cess and really think we have the response in the form of terial for publication can be as proof. Many times it is hard know just what might be held for the next issue, we have so material ·s ent in. We are very preciative of this because we prefer to wonder what to do it all than to wonder what where to find material to fill the space, and I assure you the ter happened many times in the ginning. It was because of this dent interest that it was we would have enough material increase the number of issues year, so beginning with the issue you have been receiving UTAH NURSE every two mo1nU1s instead of every three. The crease in the number of issues of course, increased the amount time your Editor ·a nd Staff put in to keep the bulletin cormnlg to you. Therefore, you see the son we have for asking that send your material in ready for printer, double spaced and and a carbon copy for our sheet, and also that you keep des as short ·as possible. It saves a great deal of time and work each person sends her own in neatly done and with no essary explanations or phrases. This past year there have five issues of the UTAH published, ·a n at the cost only the mailing and stationery stamps for correspondence. Mail Orders To: MARGOT MANNERS, ZCMI, Solt Lake City 10, Utah Please send Bob Evans nurses uniforms listed. ;~~]~ Cash O c=~ Charge O foe Pdce C.O.D. 0 Nome Address Our deep appreciation goes out to all who have helped make this bulletin a success and especially to ( continued on page 3 ) Page 2 City ... .. . .. ..... Zone ....... State ..................... . Please add 15¢ postage for first uniform ordered; 5¢ for each additional uniform. Utah residents please odd 2% state sales tax. UTAH NURSE Richards Writes Your executive secretary has been wondering how many of these in the audience for the Joint Program meeting of the Biennial, held the evening of Wednesday, June 18th., were reminded of the Annual Convention of the ANA held in Cleveland in 191 7. At the Cleveland meetings, which your executive secretary attended as president of the Utah SNA, Annie Goodrich shared special honors with Jane Delano. Miss Goodrich w'as in khaki colored uniform, the first nurse to be in a uniform of the U. S. Army. Nurses serving the armed forces at that time, wore the uniform of the Red Cross Army Nurse, made of blue cotton or wool according to the time of the year or the location assigned. She wore black shoes and hose and a mannish looking hat. Miss Goodrich was in sharp contrast to Miss Delano, as the ·a rmy uniform was smartly tailored and a bit shorter than we were wearing our dresses which, as I remember, ,vas about nine inches above the floor. Miss Delano wore her clothes long, just missing the floor. At the meetings she was usually in a gray dress, fitted basque with long sleeves, a high collar with white rushing frill, skirt gored and flared at the bottom. For the special program Miss Delano presented in honor of nurses who had died in war service to that date (1917), she was in long white nurse uniform with cap ·a nd cloak, thrown back over the shoulder revealing the red lining. Miss Delano sailed for Europe immediately following the 1917 convention and died there some months later. And here at the Joint meeting in Atlantic City was Miss Goodrich, tiny, pale and frail, but with a scorning gesture toward the mike she stood, supported by a nurse on either side and gave us her message in a clear voice heard throughout the huge arena. Tears did not come because your secretary is 64 years old. They came back in 1917. They come each Jane Delano Day as she rec·alls the impressive exercises conSEPTEMBER, 1952 I UTAH NURSE Official Publication of Utah State Nurses Association Room 210, 158 East Second South Salt Lake City 1, Utah VOLUME 3 SEPTEMBER 1952, NUMBER 4 Editor, Luella Hyatt Nichols 1789 Park Street Salt Lake City, Utah Co-Editor. Ione Broadhurst 424 -E. 3060 So. Salt Lake City, Utah Feature Writer, Elaine Wilson 185 D Street Advertising Information A. W. Landvatter 2896 Florence Circle Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Contents for September From the President Nationally Known Nurse to be Guest Speaker U.S.N.A. Convention Program __ _ The Drama of the Biennial Utah Child Guidance Center (conclusion) The Biennial Hospital News District Reports News Notes Annual Committee Reports And Other Items of Interest ducted by that queenly.nurse. T~ey came again in 1952, W1th a feelmg of deep appreciation to my state association that I was permitted to attend this Biennial and again see and hear Annie Goodrich. I wonder how many in that great audience saw the trim attractive figure in army uniform back in 1917. THE UTAH NURSE (continued from page 2) our president, Mrs. Rordame, who ha-s given much time and very valuable assistance. Suggestions will always be gladly received, and if they cannot be followed we can at least give you a good reason why. We would also be glad to hear from anyone interested in working on the bulletin staff. Send your name, address ·and telephone number to the Editor. Luella H. Nichols, Editor 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 15 NOTE Material for publication m the UTAH NURSE should be concise and kept to a minimum length. It must be typed ( to prevent errors ) and double spaced! All articles must be in before the first of the month preceding publication. A DUPLICATE copy of all articles submitted would be most helpful to the staff. ,111111111111111111111u11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111,,, CITY PHARMACY Prescriptions - Free Delivery G'--'~ PHONE 9-6363 1st South and State Street ;.,,llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll;IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIU-,,,';: Page 3 FR ·OM of 1952 is behind us ·and as one stops to reflect on what has been achieved one cannot help but look to the 1952 platform set up by the Advisory Council of the U.S.N.A. Cynthia Curtis, our past president, listed the platform in her President's Message in the September-October 1951 issue of the Utah Nurse. I shall attempt to point out where we might have achieved some of these goals. M UCH The U.S.N.A. has had active participation with many a 11 i e d groups to aid in meeting the health needs for nursing care. Early in January the Utah Heart Association asked for representation from the S.N.A. on the health committee of that organization. Mignon Ritchie was asked to serve in this capacity. If you did not attend the recent Rheumatic Fever Workshop you must have re·ad about it. This was only one example of participation with allied groups. Others are representation in the Women's Legislative Council, the Radio Council, Utah Public Health Association, Community Nursing Service, State Civilian Defense Council and others. To date there has been no change in the S.N.A. structure. Change had to of necessity wait the action of the house of delegates of the A.N.A. at the Biennial Convention. At present the Constitution and By-laws Committee are preparing the changes necessary to bring our state organization in line with National for effective action in nursing. These changes will be presented by that committee at the Annual S.N.A. Convention October 1952. These changes will affect every member of the organization and it is hoped you will all be present to voice your opinions. Five delegates from the USN.A. attend the Biennial Convention ·a nd participated in the national changes. They have already contributed much to our state planmng. The U.S.N.A. has shown outstanding support of accreditation of Page 4 THE PRESIDENT programs in nursing education in order to protect the nursing student ·a nd the public. The past year has been a historic one with the National Nursing Accrediting Service co:rp.pleting the survey of ·schools for temporary accreditation. The August 1952 American Journal of Nursing contains the list of schools receiving accreditation. Six of Utah's schools received this accreditation. Utah was fortunate in having a member of the S.N.A., Katherine Brim, as a participant in the accrediting program. The Board of Directors of the U.S.N.A. supported the action taken by the Representative Committee for the Practice of Nursing involving ·accreditation of the Logan L.D.S. Hospital School of Nursing. Thru the Public Relations Committee each member of the U.S.N.A. was given an opportunity thru the district association to hear a report of the action taken by the committee. The Representative Committee was given legal council by the U.S.N.A. attorney. Nurses throughout the state stood firm to protect the student nurse and the public. Much effort and expense has gone into increasing the supply of competent nursing personnel thru improved recruitment and educational programs. Maxine Cope, Chairman of Recruitment Committee attended a workshop in Denver. She set up a recruitment committee and as a result many young women and counselors learned of, and have become interested in nursing. Her report will give you the details. The S.N.A. set up a budget that did allow expansion of this program. A scholarship trust fund has been established which will be one source of financial support to the recruitment program. No one could attend the Biennial Convention without coming back fired with enthusiasm for the esta blishment of a sound economic security program. The resolution calling for a 40 hour work week adopted nation wide is only one step forward in bringing into line other steps that will give to nurses an opportunity to become ·a profession that can help promote and give the amounts and kinds of nursing care that is being demanded of them. Our Executive Secretary and myself will be attending a workshop on economic security programs in Omaha in September. As soon as possible following this we hope to get information to you concerning plans of the program. The report of the Membership Committee is shown in this issue, while the results are not what we wish they were perhaps it is because memberships should be the results of every professional nurse believing that she can contribute to an organization established for her support and protection through her active participation in that organization and not as a result of belonging to an organization because some one else thinks she should belong. A speci'al committee was set up this year to study dues. The report of that committee is found in this issue. The editor of the Utah Nurse and her staff have spent many hours trying to keep you informed on nursing news. They have great plans ahead. Watch for developments. Time and space will not permit me to elaborate further on the work c·a rried out during the past year by the S.N.A. I only know what has been accomplished could not have been accomplished without the headquarters office kept efficient by an efficient ~xecutive Secretary. At this time I wish to thank personally every member of the S.N.A. for their contributions to the organization for only through your contribution to the organization as representatives of S.N.A. Committee Chairman, Board Members, Section Chairman, can the organization hope to achieve what you want it to. Remember: halitosis 1s better · than no breath at all. -Robert Sledd, Ewing, Ky. UTAH NURSE Nationally Known Nurse ro· Be Guest Speaker At USNA Convention 28 ye·ars Miss Mar-· F ion W. Sheahan, winner of the A.P.H.A.'s 1949 Lasker Award, OR THE PAST has been so closely connected with the development and progress of nursing in America as to be its logical spokesman. As teacher, author, administrator and executive, she has watched the profession grow, has helped guide its destinies, designed its machinery, and has contributed much of herself to its development. Public health nursing is exactly what the name implies: nursing the health ( or sickness) of the people of the U. S. Through voluntary agencies-such as the Voluntary Visiting Nurses Association, sponsored by public-spirited citizens to provide bedside care for people of their communities - and through country, state, and city health agencies, the public health nurse undertakes a daily service to humanity. Her function is twofold: she works directly with the family under private physician or clinic to utilize all possible resources and coordinate them for the best results in caring for the sick and the well in the family, and simultaneously works under the direction of the public health officer as to local, state, or federal laws regarding quarantine, sanitation, etc. The first and only non-doctor to receive a Lasker A ward, Miss Sheahan is cited notably "for her inspiring leadership, skills, and unswerving devotion to 'her visions of a better world.'" Her creative thinking helped mold plan~ which enabled nursing to play its proper role throughout World War II, in health protection on -the home front and in the mobilization of nursing personnel for the Ar~ed Services, her citation states. As director of Public Health Nursing in New York she pioneered new methods that set the pattern for her own SEPTEMBER, 1952 and many other states, and "her comprehensive program for nationwide action in the field of nursing bec'ame the blueprint which initiated and will guide progress in nursing for many years to come." Something like 6,000,000 Americans daily do not complete their ~obs because of illness. This figure could be drastically reduced if disease prevention as taught by the public health nursing services were adhered to more strictly, she feels. There are more than 23,000 public health nurses who save lives and thousands of dollars in tax funds yearly. They serve rich and poor alike: they are in the schools vaccinating children, in the homes helping expectant mothers, in industry urging workers be X-rayed for TB tests . Supporting their services, part of the framework of public health as set up nationally by Miss Sheahan, is an investment that pays untold dividends in lives saved and suffering diminished. Miss Sheahan has always been deeply interested in the public health aspects of nursing. After graduating from St. Peter's Hospital in her native Albany she volunteered at the city's Infant W elfare Station, later went into New York's Henry Street Settlement for training and experience in public health nursing. She returned to Albany during the World War I flu epidemic with the City Department of Health. When the epidemic was ended she was made county tuberculosis nurse and family health counselor for Niagara County, then tuberculosis supervisor for the State Health Department, was named assistant, then director of the Division of Public Health Nursing: As president of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing from 1944 to 1946, she was chairman of the committee that studied the Nurse Practice ,Act and vvas instrumental in bringing about helpful revision of the statute requi;ring the licensing of all classes of nurses in New York. In 1944 she was named vice president of the A .P.H.A. and was a member of the War Manpower Commission on recruitment during World War II. She has le_c tured and taught public health administration at Columbia, California and Minnesota Universities. The extra demands of county and city health dep·a rtments makes the need for more nurses as pressing as in wartime, Miss Sheahan feels. One of her basic convictions is that voluntary group participation is necessary in the field of public health. Never has this concept assumed more importance than at present when official public health departments are being strengthened to assume leadership in the community, tending to discourage volµntary agencies. She declares that consistent and persistent progressive work in her field, geared to the changes in the country, must be continued, and always with the family aspect of its function uppe!most in mind. In January, 1949, Miss Sheahan retired from the New York State Department of Health and in September, 1949, assumed her new duties as director of the National Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Services. This group, representing all of the important nursing services, is studying such services for the purpose of large-scale improvement, recruitment, a n d education so as to better serve the nation. Miss Sheahan has just been appointed a member of the President's Commission for the Health Needs of the Nation. Page 5 1952 U.S.N.A. CONVENTION By BERTHA PEDERSEN The Annual State Convention of the USNA will be held October 16th, 17th, and 18th on Hotel Utah Roof Garden. Arrangements have been made for section meetings for the Public Health Nursing section, General Duty, Private Duty, and Student Nurse Group to be held on Saturday morning. A luncheon is plarn;ied for Saturday noon, at which meeting election returns will be announced and resolutions read. The committee working on the planning consists of the following: General Chairman: Bertha Pedersen; Program: Ada Burt; Arrange- ments: Frances Leach; Registration: Hattie Solomon; Hostess: Myrtle Pavich; Resolutions: Lois Romney; Welfare and Service: Mrs. E. G. Richards; Student Nurse Advisor: Cathryn Mainwaring; Student Nurse Representative: Jill Bunker. The general chairman wishes to thank our president, Mildred Rordame; Mrs. E. G. Richards, Executive Secretary; the Board Members of USNA; all committee chairmen and committee members; for their assistance in helping with the convention. Tentative Program Utah State Nurses Association -1952 Ada Burt-Chairman Place: Hotel Utah Roof Garden Time: October 16, 17 and 18, 1952 Convention Theme: Better Nursing Service: Whose Responsibility Is It? Guest Speaker: Marian W. Sheahan, Chairman A.N.A. Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Service. * * * Thursday, October 16, 1952 8: 30- 9: 30-Advisory Co u n c i 1 1 Meeting 9: 00- 4: 00-Registration 10: 00-11 : 00-Opening Meeting 11: 00-12: 00-Student Nurse Program Program to be centered around Theme of Convention 1: 30- 2: 50-Address by G u e s t Speaker: Better Nursing Service. 3: 00- 4:.00-Health Films 7: 30- 9: 30-Open Meeting Pane 1 Discussion: Better Nursing Service: Whose Responsibility Is It? Moderator: Bernice Moss, Ph.D. Members of Panel: 1\/Iarian W. Sheahan, Chairman A.N.A. Committee for Improvement of Nursing Service. George H. Stone, Administrator Salt Lake County General Hospital. Dr. Tony Middleton, Staff of L.D.S. Hospital. Dr. James Z. Davis, Staff of St. Mark'·s Hospital. Mrs. Dorothy Lowman, Director of Nursing, Salt Lake County General Hospital. Crawford Houston, Director Personnel Service, Kennecott Copper Co. Mrs. Alice Preece, Graduate Practical Nurse Practitioner. Friday, October 17, 1952 9: 30-12: 00-G en er ·a 1 Business Meeting 1: 30- 3: 30-Utah State League of N u rs in g Education Meeting All nurses are invited -Banquet, Hotel Utah 7:30 Roof Garden Presiding: Dorothy Christofferson, Director of Nursing, Logan L.D.S. Hospital Skit by District No. 4, Utah State Nurses Association Saturday, October 18, 1952 10: 00-11 : 45-Section Meetings Public Health Private Duty General Duty Student Nurse Note to Nurse Administrators: Will this be a good time to reorganize the Administrative Section? Time will be planned for, if requested. 12:00 -Luncheon Meeting Welfare and Service Fund D r a w i n g. Come and take away a Prize. -where the discomforts of travel [ or of local routine} are nursed with courtesy, service, pleasant accommodations and superb food. MAX CARPENTER, Manager Page 6 UTAH NURSE 15 a warm day in AtJ lantic City. The bright sunlight dancing along the crests of UNE WAS gentle breakers painted a moving canvas of constantly changing moods and colors. Elsewhere at this famous seaside resort other changes were taking place. Inside the cav~rnous Convention Hall, hard by the boardwalk between Mississippi and Georgia A venues, the vanguard of nearly 9,000 nurses and others who were to register for the 1952 Biennial Nursing Convention, heard Pearl Mclver, R. N., say: "There are persons both within and without the profession who fear change." Whatever fears existed were dispelled like ·a fog evaporating under the power of light. By week's end the most momentous change in the his tory of the nursing profession had taken place. When the tired but happy nurses began their homeward trek, they could look back on fulfillment of the longsought merger of the four leading national nursing organizations into a new structural pattern. The week-long dram a was crowded with one busy program after another, long hours of deliberation, rushed meals, and high pitched excitement. But most. important, when the final Convention curtain rang down, there stood the new-born twin organizationsa brand new National Le·a gue for Nursing and a revised and expanded American Nurses' Association. Mrs. Elizabeth K. Porter, R. N., of Cleveland, Ohio, was reelected president of the ANA and Miss Ruth Sleeper, R. N., of Boston, Mass., was named the first president of the new National League for Nursing. The representatives of nearly 200,000 nurses in all 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico began their tasks as members of three national nursing groups-the American Nurses' Association, the SEPTEMBER, 1952 National League of Nursing Education, and the National Organization for Public Health Nursing. Joining with them were representatives of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing, and the dissolved National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. Foreign nurse representatives from 22 countries were in attendance as official observers. One of the most important actions at the convention took place during the closing session of the ANA House of Delegates when the nurses threw their support behind a draft of nurses if required during a national emergency. They approved, with only a few opposing votes, ·a resolution which stated that: "The House of Delegates authorized the Board of Directors of the American Nurses' Association to approve legislation if introduced into Congress during a national emergency which would enact a selective service for nurses." Spot-lighted among the ANA House of Delegates actions at the convention were adoption of a resolution calling for a 40-hour week for nurses with no reduction in present pay scales, and premium pay for overtime; reaffirmation of the right of nurses as individuals to make their own decisions in the matter of prepayment health care plans; promotion of nursing benefits in such plans; approval of a $2.00 increase in dues to carry out the expanded program of the association; changing the proportion of delegate representation to one for every 200 on the basis of section membership, plus three delegates from the membership at large for each state. Student nurses, more than 1,000 strong, decided to create an independent nursing council, the first in nursing history. It will form under the sponsorship of the coordinating council of the ANA and NLN. Miss Carolyn Kuecher of Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, was elected temporary chairman, to hold office until selection of the permanent chairman. Forty-three states and two territories were represented among the students. They urged those states without student groups to organize in the near future so that all states may be represented by student organizations at the 1953 convention of NLN. The ANA was told that while there has been a slight improvement in the situation, there is still a critical shortage of private duty nurses. Some 50,000 of them are practicing and there is a minimum need for 12,500 more. "Organized medicine and hospitals" were blamed for the economic plight of nurses by Miss Shirley Titus, R. N., of San Francisco, executive director of the California Nurses' Association. She said that these agencies have always sought to assume the active and positive direction of nursing affairs in order that both nurses and nursing should function in a way that would best serve their special interests. Convention delegates at the NOPHN rally dinner heard that the average nurse is better informed and better qualified today than were the leaders of the profess10n years ago. Nurse administrators were cautioned to treat people "as individuals and not as clock cards." Rapid changes in maternity care that recognize the importance of the expectant mother's feelings to the safe delivery of the new child were described during the NOPHN nurse midwifery meeting. At another important program session, it was stressed that there is a dire need for more nurses to be better trained in psychiatric nursing in order to fully meet the needs of patients. The Alaska Nurses' Association was officially recognized, during the week, by the ANA as its fiftysecond constituent organization. (continued on page 8) Page 7 ( continued from page 7) Also welcomed by the ANA House of Delegates were nurse representatives from the Virgin Islands. Meeting the military and civil defense needs for nurses was discussed during the week-long parley. At a joint program, the nurses heard that they are essential to civil defense but the nursing shortage has seriously hampered civil defense planning. Representatives of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps, who participated · in this session, and also reported to the ANA House of Delegates, told the convention that there is a total shortage of 3,500 nurses to take care of present military requirements. The Mary Mahoney Gold Medal, presented annually to the person who has advanced the cause of Negroes in nursing and assisted in developing good relations between Negro nurses, other nurses; and the community, was awarded to Mrs. Marguerette C. Jackson, R.N., ·a ssistant supervisor of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. A jointly sponsored post-convention meeting was held on Sunday, June 22, in which nurses from every state, and representing all major nursing interests, met with·· the joint structure committee to discuss suggestions and means to adapt state organizations to the changed nursing organization pattern. ~ . II THE UTAH CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER I ~ ~ ( continued from July issue) mr.>r.>m~~mm~~~wwww;c:r~ The neeas of parents and children in the field of mental health are increasing or are being more readily recognized. We must prevent ·a dult ills of the future by working with Today's children. I think the public health nurse has an obligation to help meet this challenge. This is how she fits into the picture: 1. As a health teacher in the home, she usually has good rapport with the family in helping them to see need and in helping them to ll\lUSter their own strengths toward meeting their own needs. 2. Because of her training, she can often detect behavior situations which might develop into mental illness. She can help the family to work out a plan of adjustment and thus help to prevent children from ever having to get to the clinic level of illness. 3. In mothers' classes, clinics and well baby conferences, she can help to disseminate sound principles of mental hygiene. 4. In school health services, P.T. A. ·a ctivity, work with handicapped children, and talks before civic, church, and social .groups, she can sow seeds of prevention. No nursing convention has ever received more widespread public attention through the press and ra5. In her strategic position of an dio, and expressions of public exacting observer, she may be able leaders throughout the country. to discern warning signs which Perhaps this interest may be show an individual's need for spesummed up in the words of Presi- • cial help. Because her work dovedent Harry S Truman who, in a tails into many areas, she can often message to the nursing convention, observe valuable clues needed by said the following: "So many peoclinic personnel for diagnosis and ple are the better for your service. therapy planning. She can assist I know the demands are heavy and in the field by observing the recomthat there should be more of you mended therapies in action and reto share them, but you have not porting on responses and progress. complained. You have, rather, 6. She can be another steadying found new ways to supplement and understanding influence for the your service and make them reach uncertain parents and the needful more people. You deserve and child. have our greetings." Page 8 I~ Until the clinic staff can be augmented, there is need for assistance and supportive help from all sources. As one individual said, "Who is closer to the situation? Who has a better opportunity for service than the public health nurse?" The public health nurse does have a definite responsibility to the Clinic, both in the referral of children genuinely needing help and in the fields of education and prevention. It is an individual responsibility of every nurse, regardless of which field of nursing she serves in, to become specifically informed about the Center, its functions, and its limitations in order to make the best use of its facilities to -aid the greatest number needing help and to utilize her own knowledge, pT'''partion and skills in the prevention of mental illness. It is my recommendation that all nurses, but especially public health nurses, visit the Center and become familiar with its mechanics and attend at least one staff clinic. These are held each Friday at 1 P.M. in the Infirmary Amphitheater. Bibliography Render, Helen Willis, R.N. A.I. N., July 1950, "Creative Aspects of Psychiatric Nursing." Hewitt, Robertert T., M.D., Senior of USPHS, Director of Phoenix Mental Health Center, P.H.N., May 1950, "Mental Health in Nursing." P.H.N., Sept. 1950, "The Nurse Mental Health Consultant-Functions and Qualifications," - P r e p a r e d by NOPHN M en t a 1 H y g i e n e Committee for 1948-50, Herc Milenka, Chairman. Stroup, Herbert Hewitt, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Brooklyn College, Social Work an Introduction to the Field, "Child Guidance," 1948 American Book Company, San Francisco. UTAH NURSE • • T H E BIENNIAL Antiopated - w:th excitement, planning, a lot of rushing and a bit of worrying until you were seated in your berth with your baggage in the section. portunity to reconsider a decision if converted to the proposed change. It is indeed remarkable that the -changes accepted by the voting body improved the bylaws by additions, not deletions. For instance: Approaching-when your hotel was reached, your bags unpacked and you glanced along the Boardwalk to where the Convention Hall looked "quite close." 1. That non-nurse membership in the NLN be approved on the state and local level. A reality - when you reached the line of registrants after the "quite close" provide to be not a straight line ,but one with concaves and convexes which lengthened the distance. 3. That two officers of the Student Nurse Council be eligible to attend ANA Board meetings instead of one. A thrill-when you walked up the long ramp or through the wonderful exhibits to the other end of the gre·a t arena, where nurses from many nationalities sat with badges and name cards like your own, and listened to the organ until the gavel fell declaring the Biennial in session. An education-through days of meetings, some dovetailing, some overlapping, and you trying not to miss ·anything. An ordeal - as you wondered why time should be wasted on matters which you knew the majority would favor, not fully appreciating the need for the opposition to be heard. A marvel-when you witnessed the patient, considerate and expert manner in which our ANA presi~ dent handled difficult situations. A revelation-when you learned that the majority knew what they wanted and were not influenced by proposed changes. A satisfaction-when it was over and you realized that you as a delegate, had helped to make nursing history. Our own study of the proposed bylaws had answered all questions, but decisions were challenged by delegate~ proposing changes which they felt were better. Here is where a free, open consideration is necessary, in order to give one the opSEPTEMBER, 1952 2. That the First Vice Pres. of the NLN also be a registered nurse. 4. That the executive committee of the ANA board meet as "a committee of the whole" when neces~ary between regular board meetmgs. 5. That each state be allowed "three delegates at large" in addition 1.o representation as stated in the proposed bylaws. 6. That a committee be appointed to investigate the proposed practical nurse membership in the NLN, learning how the pr·a ctical nurses themselves feel about this proposed membership, and report to the NLN at the 1953 convention. We who feel that the nurse, like the doctor and the dentist, should be subject to call for the armed services, were thrilled with the discussion and the resulting vote in favor of Selective Service including nurses. It is the duty of our government to protect the home front as well as to provide for the war front and the decision on this important matter becomes very difficult when our nurse organizations must decide. Nurses who would like to serve but who are declared essential to the home front will feel better if the decision 1s made by government authority. The resolution that the nurses assembled go on record in favor of the 40 hour work week for all nurses should impress our hospitals and other agencies and do much to bring about this long awaited and • • just change in our working conditions. Finally, the Biennial was an inspiration, increasing in each nurse a pride in her profession, in its purpose, its members and its outstanding leaders. Nurses proudly paced the Boardwalk with three and four colored badges and their name card proclaiming to all who s·a w them, I AM A NURSE. Mrs. E. G. Richards R.N. Executive Secretary, Utah SNA. SALT LAKE COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE Congratulates OUR NEW ORGANIZATION! UTAH LEAGUE OF NURSING Phone [phone] So. State St. FOR REGISTERED OR LICENSED PRACTICAL PRIVATE DUTY NURSING, OR VISITING NURSE SERVICE HIBBARD CUT RATE DRUGS ( 2 Stores) 479 East 3rd South Ph. 9-7097 702 South State Ph. 9-3621 RELIABLE PRESCRIPTIONS Drugs Candy • Cosmetics • Sundries Fountain and Coffee Shop FORREST HIBBARD, Manager Page 9 H D S PI -I AL NEWS St. Benedict's Sister M. Cassian O.S.B. and Mrs. Lola Norri·s, supervisors of the medical and psycho-neurologic nursing services respectively, attended the institute of the Utah School of Alcohol Studies in Salt Lake City, July 16 to .21. They reported an excellent program and commented especially on the work of the A .A.A. in the national as well as in the local picture. The St. Benedict's School of Nursing, together with the other schools of nursing in the state, rejoiced at being included among the schools listed as having been gr·a nted Temporary Accreditation by the National Nursing Accrediting Service. Sister Mary Margaret, Sister Berno and Miss Jeane Barker will represent St. Benedict's at the conference on accreditation in Denver, July 10 to 12. Alice Jeane Barker returned to St. Benedict's School of Nursing after a year's leave of absence, during which time she received her degree in nursing education at the U. of U. She is now holding the position of director of education at St. Benedict's. Victoria Copeland is also returning to St. Benedict's after a leave of absence. In August she will have completed a graduate course in psychiatric nursing at Washington University in St. Louis, which was sponsored by the United States Public Health Service. Mary Kathreen Erdweg, another recent graduate of the U. of D., will join the instructional staff at St. Benedict's in fall. Her major interest is surgery. The students association of the Dee Hospital School of Nursing entertained St. Benedict's students at a picnic on May 29th. St. Benedict's student ·a ssociation planned to reciprocate at a garden party some time in the latter part of July. St. Benedict's Alumnae News The St. Benedict's Alumnae Association planned a garden party to be held in the first week of August or latter week in July. It was to be followed by election of officers. Sixteen new members were to be inducted at this meeting. Congratulations go to the new members. Laur·a Beth Brown was recently married to Lt. David Washburn. Both she and her husband are attending the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas. Vesta Logan has trans£ erred to San Jose General Hospital, San Jose, California, where she is employed in the Operating Rooms . Congratulations to the following who have new arrivals: Frances I-lardy Heward, '50, girl; Dorothy Bynon Williams, '50, girl; Joyce Thompson Scott, '51 , boy; Wanda Milano Woody, '50, boy. ~,,.,1,111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110,.- Greetings to the Nurses of Utah Mayor Earl J. Glade and Salt Lake General Hospital Our Director of Nursing, Mrs. Dorothy Lowman, was among those attending the Biennial. She reports a most profitable, as well ·as enjoyable experience. In spite of the nursing shortage, vacations are drawing our nurses to "far-away places." The majority are choosing California, but several are heading for the East Coast, and one will vacation in Puerto Rico and another in Mexico. Happy Holidays! Hospital promotions: Elaine Tew to Assistant Director of Nursing; Ethel Eatchel to Supervisor of OPD and Emergency; Roberta Ritchie to Supervisor of the OR; Ann Iverson to He·a d Nurse, OR; Marguerite Winchester to Head Nurse, Surgery 2; Joan Lougy to Head Nurse, Neuropsychiatry; Ardyth Bates Dennis to Head Nurse, Isolation; Idella Firth to Head Nurse, Emergency. Appointments: Helen Burns, P.R.N. on 3-11 ; Josephine Echols, Surg. 2 on 7-3. Births: Pat Loveless Carter, a boy, March 1 7; Katherine Maxfield, a boy, May 31; Lois Harrison Hebertson, a girl, May 31; Norma Harris Ward, a girl, June 14; Pat Mote Crocker, ·a girl, June 30; Helen Epling Bolin, a girl, July 5; Rae Sorenson Baxter, a boy, July 23. Helen Bolin has gone to Kansas where Vern has a new position. Carol Hoskisson and Nancy Dawes are both on a leave of absence. Virginia Lea Wiggins-Reporter ~.,.11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111,,~ Salt Lake City Commissioners THE CORNER DRUG L. C. ROMNEY Alfred Trosper, Prop. BEN E. LINGENFELTER Let Our Pharmacists Fill Your Prescriptions 401 South 9th East GRANT BURBIDGE Ph. 4-6247 ,,1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110...... Page 10 JOE L. CHRISTENSEN SECOND AVENUE HOME Dignified Home For Retired and Ill People Edna Buckle, Prop. 535 2nd Ave. Phone 4-0962 ~.,.. , .. ,,,111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110"~ UTAH NURSE ••• DISTRICT REPORTS District No. 1 One of the nicest duties of the District President is the greeting we are permitted to extend to each of you through the medium of the UTAH NURSE. We read with interest each of the reports as they are published from various Districts and note the different methods of stimulating interest for the members. We re·alize that more nurses actively engaged in their profession could enjoy as well as benefit from the programs if they were active members of the Nurses Association. This, of course, becomes the duty of membership chairman in each District. The potential in Utah has hardly been touched! However, our hats are off to our membership chairman, Marge Shep·a rd, who has worked diligently to stabilize and increase the membership this year. It was a hard job well done! We hope that as we look backward to measure the accomplishments of the past year ·a gainst the hopes and plans of the year's beginning, and take a look squarely at the present that the new officers can hope to guide the activities of the future more effectively. Vera Lile and her Program Committee have planned four regular meetings during the past year. A contact Committee was organized to assist in boosting the attendance. The January Social was held at the Y.W.C.A. on the 28th. The attendance was one of the largest at any social for many years. Cards, games, refreshments and some business filled the evening. All who attended voted it a huge success. The March meeting was held in the Redfeather Building Auditorium. Dr. Spendlove gave us a splendid picture of the serious water situation in Utah. Miss Mainwaring explained the Nursing School situation at L.D.S. Hospital in Logan so there would be no misunderstandings a bout the problem on the part of the professional nurses. The SEPTEMBER, 1952 May meeting was held at the new Shriners' Hospital. A Panel comprised of Dr. Pemberton, Dr. Edwin Murphy, Nora Shumway, Mrs. Green, Clar·a Wallace and Miss Williams presented the total care of the physically handicapped child in a most interesting and inspiring manner. The last meeting of the year is scheduled for the last week in September at which time there will be an election of officers and a report on the Biennial in Atlantic City. Although the By-Laws were just revised a year ago, we can look forward to some more revision soon to conform to the National By-Laws as revised during the Biennial. We regret sincerely that we have been unable to plan a meeting to be held in Vernal where there is a very active group of nurses. However, not all are members of District No. 1 and since the distance is so great to attend meetings in Salt Lake City, they have a Registered Nurses Club which meets regularly. How pleasant it would be if we could only ·s pan the barrier of distance ·a little more readily that we could become as one in our district association. The Board Meetings have been held regularly and have been well attended. We found that a late afternoon hour seemed to be the best time for most members, so the meetings have been held on the first Monday of every month at 4: 15 P.M. We keep them short and lively. Everyone has had a job to do and have measured up. It was a pleasure to see so many of our members in Atlantic City attending the Biennial. Your delegates were very busy and all of us should indeed be proud of those who represented us so ably and loyally ·a t the Convention. You will have an opportunity to hear firsthand reports of the historic events which occurred in Convention Hall. It was most inspiring to rub shoulders with such outstanding nursing leaders as Anne Goodrich, Mary ••• Gardner, and many others about whom we have heard so much. There is so much to be done-so much that needs doing! Bec·a use of the demands that will increase, the varying needs-critical needs-we shall have more need than ever to work harder in the year to come. What better channel of aid can we offer than united service to our community, state, nation ·a nd the world? We have made a good start -lets keep progressing. Beatrice A. McHarg-President District No. 2 By SISTER CASSIAN, O.S.B. At the October meeting of District No. 2 the membership voted to pay the National Foundation for Improvement of Nursing Service the stipulated fee of $1.00 for each member in the association from the district treasury. At this same meeting we were privileged to have with us Miss Irene Thompson, Red Cross Director of Nursing Service in the Pacific area, who spoke on disaster nursing. January 24th, 1952 the newly elected officers were installed as follows: President, Sister Cassian, 0.S.B.; President-Elect, Mrs. Inga Nelson; Secretary, Mrs. Eva Jean L a w; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Marjorie Small; Treasurer, Miss Louise Ball. Board Members: Mrs. Mae Roberts, Miss Joyce Edson, Mrs. Blanche Woods, Mrs. Edn·a Seidner, Mrs. Stella Putnam and Miss Merina Bladig. Musical selections were offered by students of the Thomas Dee Memorial and St. Benedicts Hospital schools of nursing. T h e following Chairmen of Standing Committees were named at the April 3rd meetings: Constitution and By-Laws, Mrs. Blanche Woods; Legislative, Mrs. Marjorie Small; Membership, Miss Louise Ball; Program, Mrs. Eva Jean Law and Mrs. Edna Seidner; Hospitality, Miss Merina Bladig; Creden( continued next page) Page 11 ( continued from preceding page) tials, Sister Berno, O.S.B. and Mrs. Edna Seidner; Printing and Publicity, Mrs. Inga Nelson and Mrs. Eva Jean Law; N orninations, Mrs. Stella Putnam and Mrs. Mae Roberts; Civilian Defense, Miss Joyce Edson; Practical Nurse Education Mrs. Edna Seidner and Sister Cas~ sian, O.S.B. The early January Board meeting brought to light two facts: the current nurse shortage in the dis- · trict, and its correspondent interest by hospital and local groups to offset the effects of this emergency. In accordance with a previous decision made to survey the feasibility of establishing a Practical Nurse Program in conjunction with the vocational school at Weber College, a program was planned for the April 3rd meeting by the board. The purpose of this program was to communicate to the association the results of inquiries made and to present guest speakers, who through their research and practical experience could offer authoritative statements on such a program. We were fortunate in having with us President Rordame, Mrs. E. G. Richards, Mrs. D. Lowman, Miss C. Mainwaring, Mrs. Shirley Collins and Mr. Robertson all of Salt Lake City. Guests from Ogden were: Mr. Sheldon Hayes, Dr. 0. Young and Mr. 0. Peterson of Weber College. The membership gained much from this particular program and as a result will be ·a ble to function more intelligently in the development of Practical Nurse education and service. At a later date Heads of Weber College and representatives of both hospitals conferred with Margaret Knapp of the United States Office of Education, who gave valu·a ble aides pertaining to the establishment of a program. We are happy to have Mrs. Loy Doss as the first director of our school, which is to become a reality in September. Mrs. Doss will work with the assistance of an advisory council composed of Instructors of Weber College, hospital staff members and citizens. The association extends its sinPage 12 cere appreciation to President Dixon of Weber College along with members of his staff, and those of the local hospitals who through their untiring efforts have made possible this program. Recruitment is playing an active part among ·all organized church and civic groups in Ogden. We believ_e all of these have adopted as their motto this quotation from ?hakespeare, "Defer no time, delay is dangerous." The Practical Nurse will be as good as the leadership s?e gets fro~ the nursing profess10n and society ·a t large. If this be a criterion to judge, we shall graduate exemplary nurses. All work and no play m·akes Johnnie a dull lad, so with this in view a lawn luncheon was planned at the March Board meeting for July 1st ·a t St. Benedicts Hospital with Mrs. Lola Norris as chairman. The weather was beautiful, the picturesque mountains, the green lawn, and tables decorated with garden flowers formed a lovely setting for a delicious luncheon. Later in the evening the business meeting was conducted in the s~udent nurses library ·a t which time we_ he~rd stimulating reports of the Bienmal Convention by Mrs. Burch, delegate for Private Duty; Ada ~urt, delegate for Nursing Educat10n and Public Health· Miss Wilson student nurse at th~ · Dee Hospital and last but not least 1'-'!rs. Richards, always prepared t~ pick up loose threads and answer questions which the member,s ask. It was announced that Mrs. M. Burch was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Programs at the fir~t meeting of the newly elected offic_ers of the Private Duty Nurses Sect10n held in Atlantic City. We are proud to have this honor bestowed on Mrs. Burch. The total District membership includes 83 regular members and 1 associate member. The next meeting is planned for September. The Board wishes to express its appreciation to all who have helped make the past year a worthwhile one. Without this assistance the Board could not have accomplished what it did. News from District No. 2 Its a gala time for the class of '27 of the Dee Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. Twenty-five years after graduation, this class of 1 7 members held a class reunion. On Friday, June 27th, a dinner party was held at "Furiman's Eating House." Imagine the rerninisci~g and "gab fest" that took place. Some bragged about our children, grandchildren and our accomplishments of the past century. Saturday's feature was an open house at Mrs. Irene Newey Wheelwright's lovely new home. Mrs. Carolyn Myers Anderson, our former house mother was an honored guest. Mrs. Mucile ·Williams Brown, Miss Frances Gillette, Mrs. Irene Wheelwright, and Mrs. Lucille Taylor Bruerton were in charge of arrangements. June 3rd, 1952, the Private Duty Section of District No. 1 were responsible for a beautifully appointed smorgasbord given in conjunction with the State Section Meeting. Private duty nurses, 16 in number, from Ogden District No. 2 attended and were delightfully dined and entertained. Chairman Elizabeth McQueen conducted the meeting. The code of state standards was re·a d and discussed. Nancy Hansen of Provo, District No. 3 attended and give reports of private duty activities there. ( continued on page 25) Come in Nurses . . . Say Hello Brigham Street Pharmacy The New Owners HOBERT ARNOLD FRANK SCHNITKER Prescription Specialists - Free Delivery - 467 East South Tempie PHONE 5-3542 UTAH NURSE NEWS NOTES UTAH NURSES TO ATTEND MEETING IN OMAHA RS. E. G. RICHARDS, exe~utive M Secretary, and Mrs. Mildred Rordame, President, will represent the Utah State Nurses' Association at a three-day national workshop on economic security for nurses, in Omaha, Nebraska, September 2527, 1952, sponsored by the American Nurses' Association. The workshop will be attended by representatives of professional nurses' associations from every state, the District of Columbia, and the territories of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Purpose of the workshop, Mrs. Rordame explained, is to consider ways and means to attack the pressing problem of improving employment conditions of registered nurses which is of mutual concern to every nurse and every citizen in America. Among some of these problems, she listed: inadequ·a te salaries;; unsatisfactory working conditions; lack of provision for adequate vacations, sick leave and overtime; and a work week of more than 40 hours. "Unless we make nursing a more attr·active profession, we cannot exspect to attract and hold enough nurses to give the people of Utah the quality and quanity of essential care they need and are entitled to," Mrs. Rordame added. Mrs. Rordame stated that nurses throughout the country have been trapped in a vicious spiral of rising living costs that has far outstripped the modest gains doled out to nurses. This leads to high turnover of nurses, discourages many inactive nurses from returning to practice, and retards recruiting of qualified new candidates for the profession, she said. Nurses have too long endured what Mrs. Rordame described as a condition of "Genteel poverty." Despite the ever-increasing deSEPTEMBER, 1952 mands for civilian and military nursing services, the depressed economic situation has been the largest single factor responsible for the chronic shortage of nurses which has existed since the beginning of World War II. It is the ·a im of the USNA to put the machinery in operation that will bring a bout an Economic Security Program that will be of value to every member of the USNA. MARYLAND HEALTH NURSE WINS ROBERTS FELLOWSHIP The Fellowship Award Committee of the American Journal of Nursing Company has announced the selection of Anne Rice, RN., Supervisor of Public Health Nurses of the Baltimore County Health Department as the winner of the 1952 Roberts Fellowship A.w ard. FRENCH NURSES BROUGHT TO U.S. FOR DIABETIC TRAINING Mrs. William Bell of New York City, widow of the late William Bell, is responsible for bringing to the United States two French nurses for training and experience at the Children's Diabetic Summer Camp, Worcester, Massachusetts, which is directed by Dr. Elliott Joslin. Through Dr. Leo Elosser of the UNICEF, Mrs. Bell obtained the assistance of the International Unit of the American Nurses' Association in selecting two suitable English speaking nurses for this experience. Potential candidates were chosen by Mademoiselle CornetAuquier, Directric of the Ecole Florence Nighting·a le (American Nurses Memorial) in Bordeaux, France, and Miss Rose Dolan, vicepresident of the Comite American de Secours Civil in Paris, and were then screened by Professor R. Debre, Children's Center, Paris. The two selected were: Mademoiselle Jacqueline You and Mademoiselle Francois Chavannaz, a 1951 gradnate of the Ecole Florence Nightingale, and a former student of Jeanne LaMotte who heads the ANA Foreign Nurse Program. Madomoiselles You and Chavannaz are expected to arrive at Idlewild airport Monday morning, June 23rd. This project has been made possible by Mrs. William Bell who is defraying the expenses of maintenance and stipend for these two French nurses. Mrs. Bell ( a former nurse) is keenly interested in an educational program for diabetic patients and is especially interested in children's camps. The purpose of bringing foreign nurses to the United States for this experience is to give them the preparation which will make it possible to return to their home country and assist with the setting up of similar projects. She hopes that eventually it will be possible to arrange for nurses from other countries to have this same opportunity. T.A.N.S. Since the National League of Nursing Education, the National Organization for Public He·a lth Nursing, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing are now one organization-the National League for Nursing-the "Joint" in the title of the Joint Tuberculosis Nursing Advisory Service no longer applies. The name of this service has therefore been changed to the Tuberculosis Advisory Nursing Service (TANS)* of , the National League for Nursing (NLN) . Miss Sheila M. Dwyer is the consultant in nursing education and hospital service and Miss Jean South is the public health nursing consultant in education and service. *TANS is made possible through a grant from the National Tuberculosis Association. (News Notes continued next page) Page 13 NEWS NOTES (continued) ARMY TO RECALL 500 NURSES APPOINTMENTS UTAH PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION The Utah Public Health Association held their annual meeting April 24-25, Science Building, at the B.Y.U. in Provo, Utah with Maxine Thomas, R. N. presiding. The agenda was filled with many timely topics, namely: Responsibility of Industry to Community Health - Stream Pollution in Utah. Current Nutrition Probl;msFluoridation - Fluorosis - Intermountain Blood Center, and Indian Health Problem Among the Isolated, Underprivileged Groups. Members participating on the ·a bove panels were well informed on the various subjects. The address by Dr. L. P. Gebhardt, of the University of Utah, on the " Recent Advances in Poliomyelitis Research," was extraordinary, perhaps the highlight of the Convention Program. Officers elected for 1952-53 were: -President, Joseph G. Carling; President-elect, Dr. C. M. Smith; Vice - President, Therma Green, R. N.; Secretary, William Manning; Treasurer, Russell Frazier. The Convention termin•a ted with Sectional Meetings for the followmg groups:Pu blic Health Nurses, Health Councils, and Sanitarians. The U.P.H.A. has as its objective for the coming year the promotion of better public health legislation. Your representative would like to take this opportunity to urge nurses, regardless of their field of service to support this program which is so much needed at this time. Mayme C. Garrison, U.S.N.A. Representative. - .,u,1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111,,,, ~ Anna Fillmore, R.N., a former Utah nurse of whom we are all proud, has been appointed Secretary and General Director of the National League for Nursing. Julia M. Miller, R.N., has been appointed Director, NLN Division of Nursing Education. Marion W. Sheahan, R.N., has been appointed Director, NLN Division of Nursing Services. Ruth Fisher, R.N., has been appointed Director, NLN Department of Public Health Nursing. Hazel Shortal, Public Health Service nurse officer, has been assigned to ·a ssist in the cooperative public health programs in Latin America. She will be public health nurse consultant to field groups of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, U. S. Government Point Four Agency, operating in Latin America. AND 125 MEDICAL SPECIALISTS The r-.ecall to active military service of 500 reserve Army nurses and 125 reserve women's medical specialists has been approved. N lirses attending the Thursday afternoon meeting of the USNA convention will hear Major Eerie L. Chrismon, ANC, speak on recruitment of nurses for the Armed Forces. The man who rows the boat generally doesn't have time to rock it. Li£ e is a compromise between fate and free will. ...,,1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111,,~ BENDIX Authorized Service WE NEW PUBLICATION SPECIALIZE IN REPAIRING Parents who have been baffled by children's "endless questions," by the "mess, confusion, and clutter" they make of their homes, by the gang "loyalties" that get in the way of parental discipline, can get some help in understanding their youngsters from a publication just issued by the Children's Bureau. The publication, issuance of which was announced by Feder·al Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing, of the Federal Security Agency, is entitled " A Healthy Personality for Your Child." Single copies of "A Healthy Personality for Your Child" are available without charge, so long as the supply lasts, on request to the Children's Bureau, Federal Security Agency, Washington 25, D. C. BENDIX HOME LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT WASHERS - DRYERS IRONERS 16 West ;:L:a~;:E c,;;· 5-29431 ..,,1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110..~ ...,,111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 : ,,~ WHITMORE Oxygen Co. Dial 3-4421 .., , 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111•,~ 430 East South Temple MELVIN H. REID SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH HAWKES PHARMACY Optical Prescriptions Filled -Afso- Reliable Prescription Service FREE PROMPT DELIVERY 408 First Security Bank PHONE 9-7182 . "A Dependable Drugstore" - {: '(,IIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIO-. Page 14 904 E. 33rd South PROVO, IDAHO FALLS § Ph. 6-5242 ~ ;."•IIUII IIIIII IIIIIII I llll 111111111111111111111111 I I UI I I 11111111111111111111u~' and TWIN FALLS, IDAHO '111111111111111, 1 • ,,.1,,u11111111111111111111111.1111111111111111111111u,. UTAH NURSE ANNUAL COMMITTEE REPORTS REPORT OF NOMINATION COMMITTEE-1952 This is the official call to the convention of the Utah State Nurses Association at which time you will elect officers. The nominating committee submits the following list of nominees for your ·approval: For Vice President (Vote for one) Marvell Moffit Blanche Woods For Secretary (Vote for one) Clefta Varney Edla Johnson For Board Members (Vote for three) Mrs. 0. C. Hammond Lorraine Giacoletto Isabel Barelay Jeanne Barker Shirley Booker LaRue Ford Nominating Committee (Vote for two) Bernice Wilson Myrtle Pavich Vivian Miller Rowena fames Respectfully submitted, Verle B. Lesnan, Chairman Marjorie Shepard, R.N. Jennie Larson, R.N. Marvell Moffitt Mrs. Moffitt is a member of District No. 3, U.S.N.A. At present she is director of the Nursing Service at Price City Hospital, Price, Utah. Blanche W. Woods Mrs. Woods is a member of District No. 2, U.S.N.A. and a graduate of the Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. She has held position as operating room supervisor, has done private duty and at present is registrar in Ogden. She assisted with the organization of District No. 2 and was its first president. She helped institute eight hour duty in District No. 2-the first in the state. She has been president of her SEPTEMBER, 1952 alumnae association and has attended several out-of-state nursmg meetings. Her hobbies are collecting antique porcelain, meissen and dresden and learning to play the organ. Edla Johnson Miss Johnson is a member of District No. 1, U.S.N.A. She is a graduate of the Dee Hospital in Ogden and the University of Utah. She received a certificate of Public Health Nursing from the University of Oregon Medical Schol. She served with the armed forces during World War II and has worked as a hospital supervisor and as a public health staff nurse. She was employed by the Metropolitan Li£e Insurance Nursing Service, and was on the teaching staff of the University of Utah College of Nursing. She is now employed by the Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. Mrs. 0. C. Hammond Mrs. Hammond is a member of District No. 2, U.S.N.A. and a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. She has been a nursing arts instructor and since her marriage has been active in the nursing organizations. She has done volunteer community nursing work and was a Red Cross Nurse's Aide instructor during World War II. -._ At present she is director of the Nursing Service for the Weber County Red Cross Chapter and is a member of the Weber County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis; a member of the State Polio Planning Committee for Nursing; a member of the Ogden City Board of Health, a member of the advisory committee to the Weber College Practical Nurse School. She is a charter member of the Welfare League of Ogden (Junior League) . Lorraine DeCola Giacoletto Mrs. Giacoletto is a graduate of Carbon High School and College and the School of Nursing at St. Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City. She did post-graduate traimng at the University of Oregon Medical School at Portland, Oregon, and also served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps during World War II. She has done private and general duty in the states of Oregon and California and was Supt. of Nurses at the Price City Hospital, Price, Utah for two years. Her present status is that of a private duty nurse. While attending Carbon College she was President of the Associated Women Students. At St. Marks she was a class officer the first two years and then president of the Student Body during her senior year. She has been an active member in the U.S.N.A District No. 4 for the past six years and has held the following offices: 1st Vice President, 2nd Vice President and Secretary and Chairmanship of various standing committees, the present one being the program committee. She is an active member in various social, church and Masonic organizations. Isabel Barclay Miss Barclay is a member of District No. 1, U.S.N.A. She is a graduate of L.D.S. Hospital School of Nursing. She has done private duty and hospital staff nursing and at present is a head nurse at L.D.S. Hospital. She is _this year completing a two year term as a board member of U.S.N.A. Jeanne Barker Miss Barker is a member of District No. 2, U.S.N.A. She is a graduate of Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing in Boston and ha,s a degree in nursing educa·on from the University of Utah. She has done staff nursing and is at present the nursing arts instructor at St. Benedict's Hospital where she also teaches medical and surgical nursing. She has been a member of the Board of District No. 2, U.S.N.A. and advisor to the student nurse group this past year. ( continued next page) Page 15 ( conLinued from preceding page) Shirley Booker Miss Booker is a member of District No. 1, U.S.N.A. She is a gradu·a te of St. Marks Hospital School of Nursing and is employed at St. Marks in the operating room. LaRue Ford Miss Ford is a member of District No. 3, U.S.N.A. She is a graduate of L.D.S. Hospital School of Nursing. She has studied at Maternity Center, New York and received her certificate of Public Health Nursing from the Univer·s ity of California. She has held position in supervision and staff nursing in Utah and has also served on various prof essional organization committees and boards. Bernice Wilson She is a member of District No. 3, U.S.N.A. At present she is employed on the obstetrical division of Utah Valley Hospital in Provo. Myrtle Pavich Mrs. Pavich is ·a member of District No. 1, U.S.N.A. At present she is employed as a staff nurse by the Community Nursing Service, Salt Lake City. Vivian Miller Mrs. Miller is a member of District No. 6, U.S.N.A. She is a graduate of Holy Cross Hospital School of Nursing. She has done hospital nursing and public health nursing in Utah. At present she is supervising nurse for the State Department of He·a lth with headquarters in Logan. She received her public health nursing certificate from the University of Colorado. Rowena James Mrs. James is a member of District No. 2, U.S.N.A. She is a graduate of the Dee Hospital School of Nursing in Ogden and has done private duty and staff nursing in Ogden for several years. At present she is an active member of the State Private Duty Section and has been chairman and ·s ecretary for that group. She has had experience as ·a board member in District No. 2. Clefta Varney No biographical data submitted. Page 16 STATE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE REPORT The Utah State Legislative Committee this past year has been primarily concerned with the legislative program on the national level as it concerns nurses, nursing, and the general health of our people. Letters have been written at various intervals to our senators and representatives in support of those bills which the committee felt would prove most beneficial to the general welfare of our profession. The committee expects to be more ·a ctive during the next few months in preparation for the 1953 Utah State Legislature. In the meantime we would like each nurse in Utah to become fully informed with the issues which may come before the Legislators concerning nurses, nursing, and health. We urge each of you as citizens to become acquainted with the state representatives ·a nd senators, and actively participate in the coming elections this fall. Only through a thorough understanding of the issues involved and through a united front will we be able to successfully carry out a good legislative program in Utah in 1953. Fund or direct from the present Fund. We aided a student nurse through her last year of education with a loan of $100, half of which was loaned at the time of application and the second half at graduation. The loan is to be paid according to the rules governing loans granted from the Welfare & Service Fund. We considered a second application for aid which did not carry through. The applicant did not continue her contact with headquarters following her ·application. We are looking forward to a fine sale of chance tickets. There will be five chances for each ticket buyer to win a hand carrying radio. The committee will appreciate having the members reier any c'ase wishing aid from the Fund, to us for consideration. The Fund is not large but is increasing and can now be put to use in limited individual amounts. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON WELFARE AND SERVICE MRS. E. G. RICHARDS, Chairman The members of this committee are the district presidents. The business of the committee is carried on by correspondence, the chairman stating the item of business and enclosing a stamped re_turn envelope for the reply. To date the committee has decided on the following: The prizes for raffling at the annual convention in October, are to be hand carrying radios, five in all, one purchased by each active district. The radios to be paid for by the SNA , the amount to be taken from the money raised by the sale of chance tickets before depositing the amount to the credit of the Mac Levy Slenderizing Located at CAREL BEAUTY SALON 1061 East 21st South LOOSE INCHES IN MINUTES If you want to wear the new form fitting fashions . . . . Take Mac Levy Slenderizing course. This is absolutely new Not to be compared or confused with any other slenderizing method in salt Lake City. Our Grand Opening MONDAY, AUGUST 25 Phone 7-5886 UTAH NURSE THE REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE PRACTICE OF NURSING ANNUAL REPORT THE . has provided us with the opportunity to serve the nurses of Utah and those coming . into the state in the way in which we wish to serve them. With our office at the State Capitol, problems which used to take sometimes months to handle can now be taken care of in a reasonable length of time. There is evidence that more people are aware of the services provided as the work is increasing and that is as we wish it. PAST YEAR Accreditation visits have been made to our practical nursing programs, some of our affiliate programs and some of our professional programs. It is planned that all schools of nursing will be visited by the first of the year. In October of 1951, a representative from the National Nur·sing Accrediting Service visited all of our schools of nursing for the purpose of temporary accreditation of the programs. The results of these visits were published in the August issue of the American J our:rial of Nursing. A representative from the National Association for Practical Nurse Education visited the Provo Practical Nurse Program for the purpose of determining eligibility for nation·a l accreditation. V\Te are anxiously awaiting the results of this visit and hope to see the program among those listed as nationally accredited. Our committee was represented at the Conference of the ANA Committee of State Boards of Nursing Education and Nurse Registration and the Conference of State Boards of Nurse. Examiners held in Philadelphia in June just preceding the National Convention. We are proud of nursing in Utah. July found representation from six of our schools of nursing, from public health nursing, the Tuberculosis Sanitarium and the Representative Committee at a conference on accreditation held in Denver. The response of the schools in their deSEPTEMBER, 1952 sire to upgrade their programs is gratifying. We wish to assist in every way possible for only through the improvement of nursing education can we expect to improve nursing service. We feel the progress of professional and practical nursing in Utah is commendable. We express our appreciation to all who have assisted us during the past year. The following number of licenses were issued during the period from August 1, 1951 to July 31, 1952: New licenses: Licensed by examination - Professional Nurses 110, Practical Nurses 28; Licensed without examination on the basis of licensure in another state or territory or foreign country-Professional Nurses 65, Practical Nurses 0; Licenses renewed-Professional Nurses 3885, Practic•a l Nurses 397. This is an increase in the number 0£ registrations during the previous year. I extend a special note of appreciation to the committee members f.or the unselfish service they have rendered throughout the past year. May we continuee to work together in serving the public and the nursing profession. Respectfnlly submitted, Olga E. Falls, Chairm·a n. Report of the Committee · To Study Nursing Dues Of the U.S.N.A. After considerable study of the problem presented this committee -that of studying the possibility of reducing the membership dueswe have concluded that a much reduced income would seriously cripple the organization, if not render it entirely useless so far as ·a ccomplis}:iing its stated purposes. Then too, in the new structure the program of the U.S.N.A. will be somewhat changed, with greater emphasis on the economic security program. The program is a costly one and we would hesitate to leave a board of directors faced with such a progr·a m on a most inadequate budget. However, in order to keep faith with the membership who have so strongly urged this reduction, we do recommend that the State Association absorb the increase in A.N.A. dues which were approved by the House of Delegates in June. In other words the individual membership dues would be allocated as follows: District $2.00, State $15.00 and A.N.A. $5.00 instead of the present-District $2.00, State $17.00 ·a nd A.N.A. $3.00. In addition the committee makes the following two recommendations, which we hope may eventually forward the purpose for which the committee was established: 1. That further study be made by a committee composed of members of the U.S.N.A. and members of the new U.L.N. when it is organized of the possibility of sharing certain services and facilities. 2. That we study our official bulletin from the standpoint of its value as a means of recruiting new members and securing more widespread understanding and support from t~e interested public (a) by presenting controversial issues in the magazine from the nursing point of view and (b) by explormg the possibility of making the magazine available to non-members and the public for a price on news-stands or some other suitable place. Yours respectfully, Dorothy C. Lowman, Chairman. RECRUITMENT COMMITTEE REPORT A AN EARLY meeting in January, 1952, the Recruitment Committee set up the following plans: T ( 1 ) To publicize Nursing and Nursing Education. (2) To get financial help for qualified girls. ( 3) To gain the help and cooperation of church organizations in our recruitment program. ( 4) To interest the members of the Parent-Teacher Associations in Nursing. ( continued next page) Page 17 ( continued from preceding page) ( 5) To provide high school counselors with posters and kits on Nursing. (6) To have personal contacts with senior students in the high schools throughout the State. • (7) To participate actively in high school career day programs. (8) To organize "Future Nurses' Clubs," wherever possible in Utah High Schools. In order to carry out our program each member of the Recruitment Committee was made a chairman of a sub-committee as follows: Mrs. Inez Allen and Miss Lillian DeYoung-Publicity. Mrs. Marjorie Somers-Scholarships. Miss Edla Johnson-Churches. Mrs. Letha Fox-Parent-Teacher Organizations. Miss Genevieve Allen, Director of Dairy Council of Utah-Future Nurses' Clubs. Mrs. Elaine Miller-Practical Nursing. Mrs . Edna Seidner, Miss Maurine Inkley and Mrs. Maxine Cope -Counselorn, High Schools and Career Days. The following is a brief resume of the activities of the Recruitment Committee to date: . ( 1 ) Facts a bout nursing shortages, nursing schools, and the ·a dvantages and opportunities of a nursing education were publicized over the radio, television and in the newspapers. ( 2) Posters were placed in buses of the Salt Lake City Lines. ( 3) An ·a ppeal was made to various church representatives to help relieve the shortage of nurses in our state by aiding us to interest young women of their organizations in nursing. ( 4) A sum of $1260.00 has been collected from various firms and organizations and will be placed at the Tracy-Collins Trust Company as ·a trust fund. On a basis of the expense of the nursing school selected by the student, and the criteria of qualifications set up by the scholarship committee and approved by the nursing school directors throughout the state, the funds will be disbursed to needy students. Page 18 ( 5) Articles have been written and printed in the Parent-Teacher magazines. Presidents of individual Parent-Te·a cher Organizat1ons were asked to devote part of a meeting time to nursing. They were also sent brochures to give to the members of their organization. We hoped parents might be an influence on their daughters. ( 6) High school counselors were visited and given posters and counselor kits on nursing. Kits were given out at area meetings held at the Holy Cross Hospital and in Ogden. (7) Approximately ninety percent of the high schools in the state were visited and senior meetings were held where we had face to face contacts with students. Skits, demonstrations, teas, programs and speeches were used to arouse attention and interest. As a result of this part of the program, we had 770 young women express an interest in nursing and asked for more detailed information. We sent the names and addresses of these students to each director of a school of nursing in the state. We appealed to the directors of schools to send each student detailed information about their school. This helped interested students to know better the various nursing programs offered in Utah. ( 8) We prepared special programs and returned to many high schools again on their career days. (9 ) We are attempting to organize "Future Nurses' Clubs" in the high schools of the State. Constitutions and by-laws, projects and programs have been planned. The objective of this part of the program is to have a means of continuous contact with high school students rather than seeing them only annually. We feel we can give ~.., . . 111111111111111111111111111111111111111011111111111111111111111111111111,,,.,. Optical Laboratories, Inc. them ·a more realistic idea of nursing and nursing education. It will be a potent method of reaching prospective students as well as parents and communities. Our first club was organized at West High School, Salt Lake City. Students from this club have been on radio and television. (10) We have kept in contact with interested students by correspondence. Our major business for the remainder of the year is to continue organizing "Future Nurses' Clubs" and building the trust fund. We wish to thank all of you as individuals for helping us with our recruitment program. Especially, we want to thank the many Public Health Nurses who participated actively, Mrs. E. G. Richards who mailed us so much helpful information, Clarence W onnaCott for his help with scholarship funds, the directors of schools for letting us have students so often and sending promptly any material we needed, ·a nd the student nurses who untiringly, even on their day off, did everything they could to help. It was observed that student nurses make excellent recruiting personnel! FINANCIAL STATEMENT Budgeted to Recruitment Committee ................... .....$500.00 Disbursements: Publicity Materials .. 131.72 (Pamphlets, Posters, Kits, etc) Traveling Expenses (Auto Expenses, Meals, and Lodging) 224.13 Stationery, Postage & Telephone ............ 55.78 411.63 Total Remaining ..... ............$ 88.37 Respectfully submitted, Maxine J. Cope, Chairman. ~"•111111111111111111111111111111111111111r11111111111111111111111111111n11111,,~ Bountiful Drug Co. 24-Hour Prescription Service Dispensing Opticians PHONE [phone] East South Temple o;,.~4 \IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII~~.._ Compounded Exactly as Your Doctor Orders After 10:00 P.M. CA L L Bou ntifu I 470 or 1044W ';#41"'011111111111IIIIIIIIUUU11111111tltllllllllllllllllllll111111111111111U/ UTAH NURSE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE REPORT to have imporP tant resolutions, which were passed at the Biennial presented ·a t LANS ARE AFOOT the Convention for USNA indorsement. The Resolutions Committee submits the following: USNA Condolence Cards sent since the 1951 ConventionOctober 1951 To: Mrs. June Hyde on death of Mrs. West, a nurse. November 1951 To: Mrs. V\,' alter Stookey on death of Dr. Stookey. Mrs. George Curtis on death of Dr. Curtis. Mrs. LeRoy Jones on death of Dr. Jones. The family of Ollie J. Hooker Sinclair. Anna J. Hall on death of her sister. December 1951 To: Roxana F. Hase on de·a th of her brother. Vera Johnson Williams on death of her husband. Melba Sorenson on death of her mother. January 1952 To: Virginia Lloyd on death of her father. Ida Palmer on death of her fathe:r;-. Sister M·a ry Margaret on death of her father. Selma Oberg on death of her mother. February 1952 To: Josephine Sessions on death of her husband. Sister and family of Pearl Delilah Nash on her death in Idaho. Mrs. Lorin D. Parkin on the death of her husband. Mrs. LaPrele A. Neville on death of her mother. March 1952 To: Ursel Hawks on the death of her sister. Mrs. Thomas Broadbent on the death of her mother. Marjorie Small on the death of her husband. Elaine H. Snow on the death of Gladys Hood. John G. Simpson on the death of his wife, Nurse Lucille Simpson. April 1952 To: Emily Hooper on the death of Louise M. Aubrey. Margaret Fyfe on the death of Mary Fyfe. Ann·a J. Hall on the death of her brother. Family of Nurse Jean Sumers, killed in auto accident. May 1952 To: Dorothy Lowman on the death of her mother. Mrs. Ernest Lombardi on child drowned. Ruth L. Reynolds on the death of her mother. Mrs. V. P. White on death of Dr. Vivian White. Hazel Glade Moss on child drowning. June 1952 To: Mary E. Carroll on the death of her mother. Alvin W. Curtis on the death of her son. I v'a Basinger on the death of her sister. July 1952 To: Mimie Webster on the death of her husband. August 1952 To: Maxine Kinnersly on death of child. Doris Baker O'Brien on death of her husband. We appreciate the cooperation of nurses who notify Mrs. Richards of the death of a nurse or a member of the nurse's family and trust we will have your continued support. Thai cards are appreciated by members is evidenced by the thank you notes received at headquarters. Respectfully submitted, Lois Romney, Chairman. PRIVATE DUTY NURSE SECTION REPORT HAVE had ·a very active Section this year with 100 % paid up membership. Fine educational programs were given, including lectures by doctors, who gave us the latest information in nursmg. Mrs. Lois Romney, chairman of our Committee on Standards and her co-workers, Mrs. McQuine, Nancy Hansen and Maurine Burch, have served our group well by their efforts in the building up of our standards. Their work is very much appreciated. Mrs. Ronnie James is chairman of the Nomination Committee with Mrs. Nancy Hansen and Marjorie Shepard as committee members. The Private Duty Nurses fees have been raised to $12.00 per shift, $13. 00 per shift for alcoholic and psychotic cases and $9. 00 per shift for doubling cases. This rate took effect February 1, 1952. We are trying to contact all nurses throughout the State who have at any time done private duty nursing. Special effort will be made to invite them to the State Convention to be held the 16, 17, and 18 of October this year. A guest speaker will talk on the New Structure of Nursing. We feel that all W E ( continued n ext page ) ~,11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111,,~ Compliments of Greetings Nurses - - Compliments CROWN PLATING CO. DESERET MORTUARY from Oldest and Largest Plant in Utah - Service Above All - MAURICE WARSHAW 257 So. l st West Phone 4-0201 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH PHONE [phone] East 7th South SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ''11111111111111111111111111111111u11111111111111111111111111111111111111111,,...~ SEPTEMBER, 1952 Page 19 ( continued from preceding page) private duty nurses should be familiar with this new change in Structure. We hope to find many nurses who will want to return to the profession. We were happy to have Mrs. Maurine Burch represent us as private duty nurses and as a delegat~ to the Biennial Convention held in Atlantic City, last June. She did a splendid job. Through social gatherings held in the past we have become better friends and our friendship has developed. District No. 2 held a getacquainted dinner in Ogden in November and in June District No. 1 entertained Districts No. 1, 2, ·a nd 3 at a dinner held in Salt Lake City. These gatherings were well attended and enjoyed by all. We feel that much good has been accomplished through becoming better acquainted. Meetings for Nursing Service for Polio was attended by Grace B. Webb, R. N., who represented the Private Duty Nurses Section of the State. At the present time we have 98 nurses doing private duty in the State. We hope to have more R. N 's. join us in the near future. We feel that we have had a very successful year in the two sections and hope we will be able to interest other nurses in the State to want to organize other sections in the near future. (Mrs. ) Grace B. Webb, RN. would know what they were voting on. THE STUDENT NURSE ASSOCIATION OF UTAH ANNUAL REPORT Nurse Association of Utah has held monthly meetings during the year, as in the past they have been held at the various schools of nursing. One meeting was held at the Nurses' Residence at Utah State Hospital; here the students were acquainted with the psychiatric nursing affiliation facilities offered at the hospital. T HE STUDENT SNAU Week was held in December in an attempt to familiarize the students with the organization and encourage membership. Special programs were held during the week and each school had a bulletin board display. Some of the schools had 100% membership before SNAU Week. All schools are participating 100 % . February 22, found the student association sponsoring ·a dance at Following the annual convention last fall, and at the suggestion, of Pearl Mclver, the schools of nursing conducted a poll among their students to determine their desire regarding nation·a l organization. The majority of the students were in favor of a two organization plan. The poll stimulated interest among the students and found many of them studying the structure so they Enjoy Far Better ICE t Boston Building 347 South Main Street Greetings to . . . UTAH STATE NURSES Natter's All Chicken Pies All Chicken and All Turkey Pies Bill's Glamour Portraits BEEF POT PIES - WITH GRAVY AND FRUIT PIES 38 West 2nd South • MEDICAL ARTS PHARMACY Medical Arts Building SO East South Temple St. Phone 4-7815 SALT LAKE CITY No Stale Beer Odors to Dim the Satisfying Aroma of Choice Stea ks Compliments of - - - Served at EARL'S DAIRY PRODUCTS H. H. BOCKHOLT 7962 So. State Plumbing and Heating Work Mid. 804 ~,o,111111111111u1111111111111111111111111111111111111111r.111111111111111111,,., of All Kinds ~ Food G E M Market "Our Goods Excell" Specialty on Lawn Sprinklers Drew & A. 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Perhaps the outstanding project of the year sponsored by the schools of nursing was that of raising funds to send a student from each school to the convention in Atlantic City. When first suggested at an SNAU meeting it sounded like wishful thinking but soon the schools caught the enthusiasm of it and for three months one was hearing about the carnivals, cake and candy sales, card parties, doughnut sales, plays and so on being sponsored by various classes and schools. Some students worked on their day off and contri\mted their pay to the fund. May found 6 students from 5 schools bubbling over with enthusiasm because they had been selected to go. There were many more wishing they might go. The convention proved to be an experience of a lifetime and I am sure they will long remember it. Mary Bachman .from Holy Cross was selected to serve on the Resolutions Committee and Patricia Culver from St. Mark's made the motion ( continued next page) ► Congratulations to Utah State Nurse Association Aviation Club of Utah 610 East South Temple Phone 4-4417 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH i Compliments Utah Waste Paper Co. HARRY BERKEFELD 1431 South 2nd East Phone 6-5392 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH UTAH STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION Treasurer's Report - Six Month Period - January 1-, 1952-July 1, 1952 CASH ON HAND JANUARY 1, 1952 ........................................ $10,612.81 INCOME ..................................... ...................... ... ............................ Dues ..... ................................................................... $8,912.25 Associate Membership Dues ................................ 30.00 Refund from American Nurses AssociationTr·a nsportation to A.N.A. Meetings ........... . 407.41 214.00 Study of Nursing Functions ·-·-······· ··-········-···-···-$119.00-Due for 1951 95.00-Paid for 1952 State League of Nursing Education-Contribution to expenses of Joint Committee ...... ...... 50.00 Transfer from State Welfare and Service Fund.. 75.00 Sale of Typewriter ................................................ 32.50 Overpayment of Dues .......................................... 1.00 9,722.16 DISBURSEMENTS .. ........ .............................................................. $ 8,197.63 SALARY Executive Secretary ..................................... . $1 ,340.70 Office Secretary ........................................... . 82.03 Treasurer ...................................................... 47.10 U.S. GOVERNMENT Withholding Tax .......................................... 287.90 Social Security .............................................. 53.53 STATE OF UTAH DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY ........................... . 16.07 LEGAL AND AUDITING Attorney Retaining Fee ............................... . 120.00 Audit 1951 Books ....................................... . 75.00 OFFICE EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES ......... . 239.42 ( Stamps, Supplies, Repair of Office Equipment, etc.) PRINTING ... ........ ... ............................................. . 10.00 RENT ................................................................... . 420.00 TELEPHONE AND COMMUNICATIONS ... . 104.00 STUDY OF NURSING FUNCTIONS ............. . 52.00 TRAVEL President and Executive Secretary ............. . 376.80 ($300.00 Travel to A.N.A. Advisory M e e t i n g - Executive Secretary $76.80 Travel in State of Utah. ) Board Members ..................................................... . 94.45 Section and Committee Chairman ..................... . 34.25 Advisor to Student Nurses ................................... . 20.40 Biennial Convention - 5 Delegates, President, and Executive Secretary .............................. 2,100.00 Unlisted Meetings ................................................ 322.56 Travel Expenses-To Be Refunded by A.N.A . .. 400.00 SECTIONS Public Health ............................................... . 10.63 Private Duty ................................................. . 9.90 COMMITTEES Recruitment ................................................. . 411.63 Membership .................................................. 3.00 Study of Nursing Dues ................................ 9.80 Public Relations ............................................ 15.16 DUES To American Nurses Association ................ 1,332.75 Refunds to Districts ..................................... . 53.25 ( continued next page) SEPTEMBER, 195 2 Page 21 MISCELLANEOUS Hotel Congress Coffee Shop (Meals for those attending Board Meetings) _______ _ 43.22 Prizes for Welfare and Service Fund __ __ ___ _ 25.50 Travel for Treasurer-Bank business __ ____ __ 8.88 2.70 Bank Charges ------ ----- -- ---- ------ ------ -------------- ----Loan (Repaid from Welfare and Service Fund) --- --- --- ---- -- ------ ------ -- --------- ----- --- --- --50.00 Treasurer's Bond ---- ---------------- ---------------- --- --25.00 CASH ON HAND JULY 1, 1952 --- -- ---- ------- ------ --- ---------- ---- ----- --- UNITED STATES SAVINGS BOND ------- -- ----- -- ---------- -------- -----ZIONS SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY WELFARE AND SERVICE FUND Cash on Hand January 1, 1952 ------ --------------------------- -- --------Loan ---- -------------- ----- ---- ---- ------------- --- -------$50.00 Prize from District paid by U.S.N.A. $25.00 Cash on Hand July 1, 1952 --- ----------- ---- -------- ------------------------- Miss Louise Scoville-Treasurer Utah State Nurses Association. STUDENT NURSE REPORT (continued) that the students form a National Association .. Oregon was right there urging Utah on. Other students attending were Mary Louise Wilson from the Dee, Margene Clark from Salt Lake L.D.S., Barbara Kerr from the County and Clarabell Schweppe from St. Mark's. $12,137.34 $ 500.00 $ 2,813.59 $ 2,738.59 MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE REPORT The Utah State Nurses Association membership, July 1, 1952 was 464, which is 65 less than the membership was at the same date last year. There are 123 new members this year, but 243 of our 1951 members did not join in 1952. Why did these 243 not rejoin our association? Many still give high dues, with nothing being done on the economic security program as their reason while others have moved away or become inactive. Our membership goal is to have every working nurse a member. We have approximately 1,090 nurses working in Utah this year. Our membership is 464 which is 43.3%. It seems we have gained 1.3% over last year. We have not had an increase in the number of members but there seems to be about 171 nurses who are not working as compared with last year. The following is a brief summ·a ry by Districts : Plans for the immediate future are centered around the coming Utah State Nurses' Association and the student activities connected with it. I am sure no one will challenge me when I say we have some up and coming leaders in nursing for the future. The directors of the schools of nursing are in no little way responsible for the accomplishments of the association. Their cooperation is appreciated. My "thank you" is extended to the officers and student council with whom I have worked and to the USNA for providing me with the opportunity of working with the students. I do not think there is a better group anywhere. I trust the future will see many more students participating in what will help them to recognize their place in a professional organization. Respectfully submitted, District Approx. No. Working Nurses Paid Dues 1951 1951 286 118 1952 268 83 1952 1 750 590 2 7 238 127 40 25 60 20 218 127 45 25 64 20 7 1260 1089 3 4 5 6 The above figures will change before the end of the year, as more dues come in after July. The committee wishes to extend their gratitude to all nurse members as we do appreciate their support ·and loyalty. We especially Page 22 57 58 23 3 42 0 33 0 26 0 529 464 Membership Percentage 1952 1951 47 38 39 50 45 45 75 58 0 8 70 40½ 0 0 42 43.3 wish to thank all District Membership Chairmen and all others for their splendid work during this membership drive. Respectfully submitted, Ione L. Broadhurst, R. N. State Membership Chairman. Cathryn Mainwaring, U.S.N.A. Advisor. ~,,111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111,11111111111 1,,~ CONGRATULATIONS TO UTAH NURSES PHYSICIANS SUPPLY CO. Phone [phone] West 2nd South SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ';., I U l l t l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l U I I I I I U ' l UTAH NURSE FROM AUTAH HURSE IH GERMANY GENERAL DUTY SECTION REPORT The General Duty Sectiqn, always referred to as the "largest section in the .n ursing field," is comparatively small in Utah. Districts No. 1 and 2 are not active. I do not have data on districts 3, 4 and 6 I hope to have by the time of the convention. District No. 1 has about 400 general duty nurses with approximately 100 paid members. District No. 2 has a bout 120 general duty nurses, with approximately 20 paid members. General duty nurses, as a whole, do not attend district meetings. At the 1950 convention meeting we had 23 members present, ·a t the 1951 convention only 19. This small group votes on questions which concern every general duty nurse. Committees were set up by the Utah Hospital Association and the Utah State Nurses Association to study Standards and Policies for General Duty Nurses. These two committees have never met. No report was ever submitted from the Hospital Association's committee on the last Revision of Standards and Policies presented to them for review in August, 1951. Two salary incre~es have been granted in some of the hospitals, and we are ·a nticipating changes in policies. Three names of Utah general duty nurses have been submitted to national for committe·e membership consideration. Our secretary, Sharon Barnett, resigned in July to accept a position in California. Isabel Barclay, first vice chairman, was among the delegates to the Biennial in June. Dorothea White, Chairman, General Duty Section, U.S.N.A. The best helping hand in the world is at the end of your own arm. Whether it's on the road or in an argument, when you start seeing red, stop! SEPTEMBER, 1952 HusBAND is a 1st Lieutenant stationed with the 2nd Armored Division in Mainz, Gonsenheim, which is in the French Zone of occupation. Housing for American families in the French Zone is parctie'ally nil, so we live just outside of Frankfort in the American Zone and my husband drives 30 miles over the cobblestone roads into the French Zone each day. M Y Most of the German people we have encountered have been quite pleasant, but they are extremely curious-even though Americans have been on occupation duty here almost 8 years, we are constantly confronted with an open stare. We are always an exhibit and an example it seems and I am trying hard to give them as proper an opinion of Americans as I can. The countryside here is be:a utiful. There is not a square foot of land that isn't cultivated to the fullest. Their forest system is said to be the finest in the world, the pines are planted in straight rows right over the mountains and each tree is accounted for. Permission must be obtained from the Forest Meister before a limb or even the underbrush may be removed. The farmers live in tiny villages tucked in the valleys and farm small plots of ground scattered over the surrounding hills. They drive, ride bicycles, wagons, or walk and most generally push or pull small wooden hand-carts loaded with their tools or produce the few or several miles to and from their fields. Women do ·the majority of ·a ll the heavy work and lifting:they even pull the plows in lieu of a horse or the much-used cow! As ne·a rly as I can discern without having any personal experience with them, the hospitals here and the medical and nursing methods are wanting greatly when compared with ours. The great maJority oi nurses here are still working on the nurse-maid level. From what I have been told, their schooling does not extend more than 1 ½ to 2 years at most. The above assumptions were made following conversations with lay-people only, one a previous student nurse and the others past patients, so they may or may not be too authentic, but rest as·s ured, there is undoubtedly no place like home! I hope to return to work soon, either in the large 97th General Hospital in Frankfort or in one of the Army dispensaries nearby. Germany is beautiful and travel is educational they s·a y, but Salt Lake City is still the nicest spot in the world to me. Sincerly, Mrs. Mad~lyn B. Wells c/o lst Lt. William A. Wells No. 061395 H. & S. Co., 66th Med. TNK. BN. A. P. 0. No. 42 c/ o Postomaster New York City, N. Y. ~"u11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111n11111111111111111111111111,,"!. We Solicit Your Business: UNIFORMS: Made in new fabrics NYLON, ORLON CAPES: by Standard Apparel HOSIERY: Full fashioned, Mesh, 51 Gauge, Nurse Girl BUTTONS: NAME TAPES ACCESSORIES: Call On Us For Your Requirements! 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Henry, N.D. 2265 Highland Drive PHONE 8-9681 PHONE [phone] South State Street Greetings to Compliments of Best Wishes UTAH NURSES STAUf FER SYSTEM Reducing Treatments Loving er Disinfectant Co. Let Us Supply . . . . .. Your Uniform Needs Nan Lindsay 1086 East 21 st South PHONE 7-4781 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 319 So. West Temple AMERICAN Linen Supply Co. Ph. 5-2861 SALT LAKE CITY 33 E. 6th South ____ Phone 4-8448 · PROTECT YOURSELF ... Now is the TIME to MAKE SURE of your ,. FUTURE FINANCIAL SECURITY! ! ! against LOSS of YOUR INCOME caused by SICKNESS or ACCIDENT One of the BEST WAYS to do this is by Insuring with the World's largest HEALTH & ACCIDENT COMPANY to work our your PLANS with one of the Beneficial Life Representatives. * MUTUAL BENEFIT Health & Accident Association Contact him today .... of OMAHA .... You'll be glad you did! UFE PA.MY David O. McKay, President Salt Lake City, Utah Call 3-4491 for VAL GARFIELD or Co-Owners and Managers Walker Insurance Agency 139 Sou ht 2nd East St. Page 24 PERC RICHARDSON Salt Lake City UTAH NURSE DISTRICT REPORTS (continued from page 12) The spirit of friendliness that is enjoyed among the private duty groups is a challenge to all women in the several fields of nursing. From across the world comes a few words from one of our nurses who at the present time is serving with the army in Korea. A quote from her letter: "We went down to the Wonjie market the other day to do some shopping and you should see the place. Talk about stink, they had old dry fish sitting all over the . streets and it was just a bout all we could do to walk through. I've never seen anything like it. They have some of the cutest little kids over here but they are so dirty, I feel · so sorry for them. However, they seem perfectly happy. They don't know any other kind of life so I guess its all right. When I stop to think a bout all the clean and sterile technics they use on children back home in hospitals and see the conditions over here I just wonder how they ever survive." 21 td. Joyce Quayle -Wonjie, Korea. District No. 3 In District No. 3 we have 61 active members-not as many as we wish there were. Perhaps, in the near future, more nurses will feel they need the Nurses' Organization. The U.S.N.A. and districts feel they need the nurses now. July 29th, District 3 held a meeting at the Homestead in Midway. Thanks to all the nurses in Heber, especially Zina Duke and Merl Gardner for the wonderful evening. Our guests were the Delegates from Utah to the Biennial at Atlantic City, N. J.; Isabell Barclay, District 1, Salt Lake City, Maurine Burch, District 2, Ogden, Ada Burt, District 1 from Salt Lake City and our Executive Secretary, Mrs. E. J. Richards. The Deleg·a tes gave their reports of the convention-Thrills, Tears, Color and Calluses. Everyone enjoyed the reports. Too bad we couldn't all have gone to Atlantic City. C. Curtis, 0. Falls and H. Falls had a very enjoyable vacation-the globe trotters. Gene Rowen had a pleas·a nt trip and new car. Do you suppose they missed the ring-ringring of the Telephone? Loy Doss is building a lovely new home. Oh, what fun! Surely hope no headaches are involved. The Nurses of District 3 are looking forward to the Utah State Nurses' Convention. See you there!! Olga ·W. Smith, President Capsule Philosophy Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea-faring man on the deserted waters, you choose them as your guide, and follow them to reach your destiny. -Carl Schurz THE OPTICAL SHOP TWO LOCATIONS 420 BOSTON BBLDG. 3-5262 Use M O R G R O and have Lovely GREEN LAWNS MORGRO is the PERFECT FERTILIZER for -1awns, flowers, shrubs and gardens. It supplies lntermountain Soil Deficiencies. MORGRO is a PLANT FOOD, feeding the entire plant. 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SALT LAKE CITY -tr -tr -tr 4920 South State Phone Murray 1 OREM, UTAH ;.,,11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111u111111111111111111111un" STREATOR CHEVROLET COMPANY 465 South Main SEPTEMBER, 1952 Phone 3-7644 Page 25 SPECIAL NOTICE DIRECTOR OF NO ATTACHMENTS NURSING Starting Salary $5,000 to Qualified Person Over 200 Bed Hospital-One of West's Finest Most Modern Institutions ACCREDITED SCHOOL OF NURSING DESIRABLE WORKING CONDITIONS EXGEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY for CLINICAL INSTRUCTIORS IN ALL SERVICES and NURSE SUPERVISORS Salary Range: $260 - $280 Per Month Pleasant Surroundings Desirable Working Conditions Liberal Vacation - Sick Leave - and Other Personnel Benefits SEWING MACHINE CO. 50 SOUTH MAIN .... PHONE 5-8651 ......, •• ,.,,,11111111111111111111111111111111,1111111111111111111111111111111111111,'!. ,0111111111111u111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111n,, Welcome Nurses - - - Registered Pharmacist on Duty At All Hours 0. C. Tanner Jewelry Co. GOOD FOOD at REASONABLE PRICES ROSE PARK SHOPPING CENTER i 1186 W. 5th North Ph. 9-3324 SALT LAKE CITY, UT AH ; COON CHICKEN INN 2960 Highland Dr. Ph. 7-1062 ,0111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111',, DARLING STORE 304 South Main Phone 9-3475 SALT LAKE CITY • U.P.N. Pins DIAL 4-7731 42 West 2nd South SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH BIRDIES HAVEN Convalescent Home Compliments - - - PONTIAC - CADILLAC Dealer 535 South Main SALT LAKE CITY -;..,,,,111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111..-- • Gifts ~,01111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111, . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,.~ Fred A. Carleson Co. Ladies' and Children's Wear • Graduating Pins ";'°,IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU'-~ ._..,.. , . . . . . . . . . . ,,,11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110";: ~ Any Other Sewing Machine! WILLIAMS For Further Information Contact : V . C. 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Butter - Cheese and Powdered Milk Phone [phone] South 1st West SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 230 So. 4th West Phone 4-3751 SALT LAKE CITY ' 1,111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111n"~ Page 26 Compliments of - - - Pacific fruit and Produce Co. 160 Pacific Ave. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH '''1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110"~ UTAH NURS.E .,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 ~••■■ 11111111111111111111111111111111111nnn11n1111111111111111111111111111 ,,~ ... .. ,......,,.................................................................. ~ ,,.,., WESTERN Optical Co. YELLOW NURSES CAB SKILLED HANDS ALONE ARE NOT ENOUGH Main Office and StoreKEARNS BLDG. Phone 9-2827 CALL There is no short cut to security for your family . . . or to the gods and pleasures you'd like to have. 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