University of Utah College of Nursing Newsletter, Edition 10, March 31, 1972

University of Utah College of Nursing Newsletter, Edition 10, March 31, 1972.

NEWSLETTER - EDITION 10 March 31, 1972 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH COLLEGE OF NURSING EASTER NATIONAL CERTIFICATION EXAM On this day, observed as the Sabbath of Easter, unnumbered millions of men and women throughout the world remember with gratitude the resurrection and triumph of Jesus Christ whose influence has been more persistently felt than anyone who ever crossed the pages of history. From Christ we reckon time. To Christ we look for counsel. Him we seek for wisdom and understanding when the journey we are traveling together becomes difficult ••• -- Richard L. Evans. * * * * * Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be. -- Thomas Carly le * *** * SEARCH COMMITTEE you know, Dean Quinn will retire at the end of the 1972-73 academic year. A search committee has been appointed to help locate the best possible candidate to succeed Dean Quinn. Members include: As Minnie H. Walton, Chairman Marie Holley Camilla Wood June Goodson Gayle Eliason Lowell A. Glasgow John M. Legler Ewart A. Swinyard Anthony R. Temple Robert L. Bliss Ten second year graduate students in Maternal and Newborn Nursing and NurseHidwifery recently took the National Certification Examination of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. National Examiners Joan Imhoff from Johns Hopkins & Carolyn Banghart from the Maryland State Health Dept. conducted the clinical examination. An all-day written exam preceeded the clinical exam. Results should be available in Hay. (Editor's note: I am betting that they all passed with flying colors!) * * * ** * Happiness is like a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly will light upon you. -- Hawthorne **** * NLN CONVENTION Dean Quinn, Minnie Walton and 11argaret Adamson recently returned from the Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Program Conference held in New Orleans, March 22-24. * * * * * I found a choice description of a nurse the other day - may I share it with you? Sand in her shoes ••• Healing in her hands ••• Wisdom in her head ••• The love of mankind in her heart ••• March 31, 1972 -2- HONORS SCHOLAR Newsletter - Edition 10 CONTINUING ED. NEWS Dr. Marie Holley received word this week that she has been declared a Unfve rsdty Honors Scholar by the New York University. The honors are to be conferred on April 27th in New York City. i1arie said, however, that she does not plan to attend the ceremony. Our congratulations to her! On March 10th thirty-six nurses from areas throughout the state gathered to hear a lecture on Artificial Organs at the College of Nursing. Dr. W. J. Kolff from the University of Utah Medical Canter was the speaker and gave an excellent presentation. How much easier our work would be if we put forth as much effort trying to improve the quality of it as most of us do trying to find excuses for not properly attending to it. "Practical Application of Artificial Kidneys in the Home" and "Single Needle Dialysis" were discussed by Shirley Hughes, R.N., and Dietz Van Dura, Chief Technician, at the University of Utah Medical Center. Many favorable comments were received on this program. -- George W. Ballinger SHIPROCK UNIT PROJECTS Dean Mildred Quinn, Lorraine Sevcovic, Norma Jones and Deanna Lynch met with members of three regional offices, a representative from the Hashington, D.C. office, the Navajo Area Office (Window Rock, Ariz.) and members of the Ship rock Service Unit about possible expansion of our programs in that area. The meeting took place on March 13th in Ship rock, New Mexico. ***;',*,~ Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. Henry Ward Beecher Calmness and tranquility and assurance in life are acquired by conscious effort and not by accidental bestowal. As we go about the earnest business of living from day to day, there are influences at work in the lives of all of us that would destroy our faith, shatter our reason, and rob us of our peace if we would but let them. Our strong men and our leaders are not such as have never been troubled by such influences. Rather, they have faced and conquered those forces which would unbalance and take from us the calm richness of living. -- Richard L. Evans The third in a series of four Research Lectures will be presented at the College of Nursing, Room 212, at 1:30 p.m. on April 14. The program will consist of four half-hour presentations by graduate students who will be receiving their Master's Degrees in Nursing in June 1972. The research they are presenting is their Haster's Thesis. The program will be as follows: Sister Mary Elizabeth Cullen - "An Assessment of Some Specific Physiological Asp·ects of Quality Nursing Care in Three Extended Care Facilities in the Salt Lake Valley". Sister Patricia DeBlieck - "Factors Affecting the Decision to Breast Feed and Success with Breast Feeding". Janet E. Kristie - "Anxiety Levels of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients Through-out Total Hospitalization". Jo Ann Yost - "Correlation of Blood Glucose Levels and Second Voided Urine in Diabetic Children". The cost is $3.00 per lecture. Applicat~ ions are available from Lola Lloyd, Phone 8245. A catalog projecting Continuing Education programs for the next two years is now being compiled and should be availab le by late spring. Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made upon Lincoln. March 31, 1972 LET'S EAT RIGHT -3- Newsletter - Edition 10 Hiss Davis writes of the importance of doctors and research, she explains nutritBarbara Prater brought an interesting book ion clearly in a great deal of detail, review to me and asked if I would be able then she often seems to draw conclusions to use it in the News. I told her I would from a single patient interview, In Let's be pleased to use it, as I knew it would Get Well her statements are profusely and be of interest to you. The book, "Let's impressively footnoted, with each chapter Eat Right" is by Adelle Davis, and is having a long list of references, many critiqued by Maurine Hegstead. I have from well-known professional and scientused part of the review. ific journals. Chapter 11, "Nip Infe ct., ions in the Bud" is a good example. She "Miss Davis has a rare talent for making referred to 84 different articles, ten fascinating reading of health and nutrit- were by the same author and quoted extenion information. She weaves together sively by her but unfortunately most were catchy phrases (learn to live without an not available at the University of Utah ulcer), scientific information, tear-jerk- Medical Library. One paragraph on the iming case histories, and frequent referportance of Vitamin C in overcoming infectences to doctors and research. Her books ions had 13 references. are organized into many very short chapp. 141: "In a single year no less than ters with intriguing titles to make read45 research projects reported that Vitamin ing easy and enticing. A neighbor said t C rendered hannless a wide variety of me, "her book is almost like a bible, I bacterial toxins, and inhibited the read a little every day and couldn't do growth of whatever bacteria it failed to without it." des troy." 11 Dr. Jean Mayer, speaking at the Univerp. 137, Dr, Klenner "has found vitamin C sity of Utah last spring, was asked his to be far safer than drugs and far more opinion of Miss Davis. He commented, valuable than most. He considers it to "let's say she is overly enthusiastic be the antibiotic of choice." about nutrition." Her philosophy does seem to be that if a little is good a lot In spite of the poor showing of some references, it is evident that Miss Davis has is better. The following examples are done a great deal of reading and has a from Let's Eat Right. science background. She uses both to "Following dramatic case histories of interpret material in a dynamic way to lay old-age broken bones and jaw-bone shrinkreaders. You· might agree with her condage, p 146, "Because I do not wish my emnation of sugar and empty calories. twilight years to become a nightmare, I You might question her high intakes of take 5,000 units of Vitamin D daily, a some nutrients (far above RDA, which in quart of milk, and enough tablets to turn is considered high by some authoritsupply an additional gram of calcium •.• " ies.) You should ponder, "How does one p. 35 "it is possible, although not prob- draw conclusions from research, from case histories?" able, that you may eat more protein than 11 your body needs. (Editor's Note: If you would like to read p. 38 "Many surveys of thousands of perthe critique in full, check with Barbara.) sons having enough money to eat as they choose have shown that about 60% get far * * * * less protein than is adequate •••• If you Ideals are like stars; you will not sucwish to maintain your attractiveness, ceed in touching them with your hands vigor, and youthfulness as long as is but like the sea-faring man on the desert humanly possible, it is probably wise to of waters, you choose them as your gut des , eat considerably more protein than the and following them, you reach your destiny Board (RDA) recommends and/or to count only the grams of adequate protein you -- Carl Schurz eat." March 31, 19 72 -4- Carole Malbone brought an article to me the other day, and I enjoyed it so much I asked her permission to include it with this month's Newsletter. AN ANIMAL STORY The animals got together in the forest one day and decided to start a school. There was a rabbit, a bird, a squirrel, a fish and an eel, and they formed a board of education. The rabbit insisted that running be in the curriculum and the squirrel insisted that perpendicular tree climbing be in the curriculum. So they put all of these things together and wrote a curriculum guide. Then they insisted that all of the animals take all of the subjects. Newsletter - Edition 10 ANIMAL STORY, Cont. One goal of education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to use it ••• Are you really yo~ or are you what people have told you you are? Are you allowing others to be themselves? Dr. Leo F. Buscagila Professor of Education Univ. of Southern Calif. Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. -- Sir Edwin Arnold Although the rabbit was getting an A in running, perpendicular tree climbing was a real problem for him; he kept falling over backward. Pretty soon he got to be sort of brain damaged and he could not run well anymore. He found that instead of making an A in running, he was making a C, and, of course, he still made an Fin perpendicular climbing. The bird was really beautiful at flying, but when it came time for burrowing in the ground, he couldn't do so well. He kept breaking his beak and wings. Pret t soon he was making a C in flying as well as an Fin burrowing, and he had a miserable time with perpendicular tree climbing. The animal who was valedictorian of the class was a mentally retarded eel who could do everything in a passable manner. But no one complained, because everybody was taking all of the subjects, and it was called "education". We laugh at this, but should \,1e? Education has not in the past recognized the wonderful uniqueness of every individual. •• Something within the you of you is different from every other single human being •.• That uniqueness is what worries me because it seems to me that we are discouraging it; we are losing it. We are not stressing it; we' re not encouraging people to let it out. One of our Sophomore students, Bob Steed and his wife Robyn had a baby bey I1arch 5th. CnngrAtt1LAtiong, .Rob ond R.ohynl I * * * * * * PROUD MOTHER Lance Daniels (17 year old son of Julienne Daniels, part-time secretary in the Cont. Ed. Dept.) who is a student at the Brighton High School was pleasantly rewarded for hard work recently in the DECA Club of his school. (DECA is the Distributing Education Club of America). Having won first place for Salesmanship in the school contest, he went on to the DECA State contest, which included 40 Utah schools, and took first place with his 87 page manual. This manual, Julie tells us, was manfully typed four times by his adoring mother, who found that Lance and his teacher, Mr. Ronald Thorne, are more difficult to work for than V .L., D.P., C.M. and L.L. all put together! Lance now goes on to participate as a delegate to the DECA National Contest to be held in Los Angeles. Good luck, Lance! * * * * * * Proof that Americans are a tolerant people is the fact that the inventor of the juke box died a natural death. "'***"'"' COMING EVENT April 18, 9-12 a.m, ,_ Room 212 - Student Faculty Workshop! First Person News Discussion about changes in Bae. Cur. It is your chance to effect the future of Nursing and the College. Smorgasbord of refreshments.