University of Utah College of Nursing Newsletter, Edition 12, December 11, 1973

University of Utah College of Nursing Newsletter, Edition 12, December 11, 1973.

-:-----------• UNIVERSITY OF UTAH COLLEGE OF NURSING EXCERPTS FROM KEEPING CHRISTI1AS by Henry Van Dyke There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keep ing Christmas. Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and the desires of little children; to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and ask yourself whether you love them enough; to bear in mind the thinss that other people have to bear in their hearts; to try to understand what those who live in the same with you really want,9 without waiting for them to tell you; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry.it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open. Are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you~ keep Christmas •• And if you can keep it for a day, why not always? For somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you. --Whittier CONGRATULATIONS TO KAY Kay Carbol hax been named a consultant for the World Health Organization. This is an honor, and we are proud of Kay for receiving this recognition. SHOKING REGULATIONS Dean Clayton received a r.iemorandum from Academic Vice President P.D. Gardner regarding smoking regulations which she would like to pass on to you: Hr. Gardner said: 111 am attaching a memorandum on the subject (smoking) written last year by Provost King. I personally feel this policy should be continued and therefore would appreciate the cooperation of your faculty in this matter.?! The memo read: " ••• There are few universities in this country with smoking regulations as nonrestrictive as are ours. Those of you who feel they are still too restrictive should bring forward specific proposals to modify them but until or unless they are changed, the nonsmoking faculty and students are justified in expecting they will be honored. No smoking in classrooms, auditoriums and other areas where students or faculty are captive audiences (whether or not posted 'No Smokingv). 1 No smoking in areas designated by fire marshal as hazardous (always posted No Smoking).11 The right time to do the right thing is right now. *~"**i, NEW PUBLICATION A monthly publication entitled The Rege.n Report on Nursing Lr1w is being purchased by the College of Nursing and will be found in the Learnfng Resource Laboratory, Anyone wishing to use this fine publicat-· ion can do so by checking it out from the lab. -2NATIONAL LEAGUE OF NURSING MEETING NEWS FROH T:BE CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM Margaret Adamson and Sue Fujiki represent- C.E. is rounding out a busy fall/winter ed the College of Nursing at a N.L.N. schedule of workshops; however, there is meeting held recently in Kansas City, Mo. no relief in sight for the staff, with an equally busy winter/spring '74 pro00ram The program included business meetings and bi d three program meetings. '= ng P 1 anne • Margaret attended Ruth Huvs small group discussions. Discussion centered around concepts of health, illness & wellness. Ms. Wu's book, "Illness Behavior11 was the focal point of the session. Primary Care at Baccalaureate Leval and Graduate Levels were on the Thursday a.m. session agenda. Diane McGivern and Herbert C. Lehman discussed Baccalaureate preparation of P.C. nurses. The Wayne State Master's "Health Clinician Nur se" program was presented with reactions and questions coming at the latter part of the meeting. Thursday a.m. meetings involved a panel discussion around minority student problems. 'foth Sue Fuj iki and Margaret Adamson have notes and comments they will be happy to share with any interested faculty. A LEGmm OF THE CHRIS'WJ.AS TREE There is a legend in connection with the Christmas tree which makes St. Winfrid the inventor of the idea: In the midst of a crowd of converts he hewed down a giant oak which had formerly been the object of their Druidic worship. As it fell backward like a tower, groaning as it split asunder in four pieces, there stood just behind it, unharmed by the ruin, a young fir trees pointing a green spire toward the stars. Winfrid let the axe drop, and turned to speak to the people, "This little tree, a young child of the forest, shall be your holy tree tonight. It is the wood of peace, for your houses are built of the fir. It is the sign of an endless life, for its leaves are eYer green. See how it points upward to heaven! Let this be called the tree of the Christchild; gather about it, not in the wild wood, but in your own homes; there it will shelter no deeds of blood, but loving gifts, and rites of kinc.ness.11 This past week Jayne Furness braved the snow-bound roads of rural Eastern Utah to take a workshop to the Price area nurses in "Preventive & Rehabilitative Aspects of Nursing." On D~c. 7-8 a very pertinent program on "Effective Educational Technology and Inoervice Education" was presented by Kay Carbal. Upcoming Dec. 14 is another Diabetes Lecture in a continuing series, entitled "Coronary Artery Disease As It Relates to the Diabetic". The final lecture of this series will be held Jan. l~, "Nutrition and the Diabetic11, a subject requested by most nurses who have been involved in the lecture series. Other workshops scheduled for Jan. through Narch, 1974, include: Problem-Oriented Records A N3w Cancer Lecture Series: Cancer, the Disease Process Radiation Therapy Cancer Surgery Cancer & Chemotherapy Jan.21-22 Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. 25 22 22 26 Health Care Issue, Lecture tl1 Feb. 14 Funding for Health Care, with special guest lecturer, Jessie M. Scott, Asst. Surgeon General, Dir., Div. of Nursing Preventive Henta.1 Health for Jan. 28 Today's Child Feb. 1 Mar. 18-22 May 13-17 Management Semin.ar Jan. 29-30 Comp. Care of Critically Ill Feb. 4-8 Mar. 4-8 Breast Feeding (Provo) Feb. 13 & Feb. 20 Admins. Workshop (Cedar City)Har. & Apr. 'le ,•, ~~ ~t * ALL FACULTY PLEASE NOTE: PLEASE RETURN YOUR APPLICATION FORMS FOR . THE WORKSEOP II ADAPTATION- LEVEL THEORYu PRESENTED BY SISTER CALLISTA, JAN. 17--18, TO C.E. BEFORE THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS!!!! Seek not happiness; bestow it, and it will come to you. -3Often a faculty member will find an outstanding paper by one of the students, and will share it with us. Tha following is a p4per done for a class of .Joyceen Boyle's, by Terry Goff. WHAT HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS? nurses, they spend the major portion of their time in finding and treating illness rather than in prevent:f.ng it. The treatment of illness is a privilege of special groups. Families with good incomes usually have private physicians. However, even those who can afford to pay for medical assistance may have a hard time getting it because of the shortage of medical resources and inefficient use of them. Families with very low incomes have been privileged with legislation by the government to assist them in· getting medical care. Medical care is a fringe benefit in industry. The person "out :i.n the coldii is the low income, working man who makes more than the eligibility requirements for public assistance but has to really struggle just to ma.ke ends meet. Medical bills financially ruin this person for years. A study done by Joel Alpert and others into the health care among low income families in 1967 shewed that they sought professional medical help in only 4.7 percent of the episodes of illness. The remaining 95.3 percent were presumably treated by the families themselves or were untreated, This study raises a number of interesting questions. Was the reason for not seeking medical hBlp because they couldn't afford it, because none was available, because of folkways which made them fearful of seeking medical attention, or because "Grandma's home remedies" were successful in treating the majority of illneGscs? What Health care should be available to all would the statistics show if the study people. I am not necessarily in favor was conducted on middle or U?per class of socialized medicine, but legislatfamilies? I hypothesize that the perion should be passed which makes health cent of people seeking medical assistanc care a right of all people and then prowould increase as their income increasvides that care. National health insures. This would indicate that profession ance is only one way to handle the fina.l medical help is a privilege of those ances. More health personnel must be who can afford to pay for it. In a land recruited and trained and then a system based on equality for all, shouldn't to deliver health care ~ust be adopted, health care be available to all people Health care will then be a reality. equally? In fact, shouldn't health Health care will be a continuous process care be considered a right of all people with emphasis on health maintenance and preventive health care. Acute and chronA right is something that belongs to an ic threats to health will be managed in individual by law or nature. A priva specialized, sporadic way. The majorilege is a special advantage granted to ity of people will be working in the some person or group. Health care is community to prevent illness. Nurses the service available to assist an inwi.11 no longer be called nurses but dividual to achieve the highest level Health Care Practitioners instead, Their of physical, mental, and social wellwork area will also be the community. A being of which he is capable. People Health Care Practitioner may be likened talk of a "health care delivery system". to today's Public Health Nurse with a As defined, health care does not exist. much expanded role. She will be responAll we have is a system for treating interruptions in health, and this treat- sible for all aspects of the health care of a number of families, She will be ment is available to only a goup of inworking in collaboration with a physicdividuals. ian whose speciality is Community and What passes for health care today is the Family Medicine, sporadic treatment of acute illness. Much easier said than done, true, but the The majority of nurses are employed in problems in creating a Health care hospitals to care for sick people and rather than illness care delivery system the majority of doctors are specialists would not be unsurmountable if everyone in the treatment of some illness, Behad the philosophy that health care is cause of the small number of community the right of every individual rather than the privilege of some. -4BOOK OUT The long anticipated book, "Family Centered Community Nursing: A Sociocultural Framework" edited by Adina M. Reinhardt and Mildred D. Quinn is off the press! An autograph party was hosted by the editors at the home of Mrs. Qttiun No,r. 30 with contributors invited to socialize and share autographs as they enjoyed delicious refreshments. The book promises to be well worth the many hours devoted to its development. Bearing with them pred.ous gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh, Wise men traveled from the East to where Joseph, Nary & Jesus were. Watching from afar that day a little shepherdess, we're told, Looked on and wept because she had no gifts of frankincense and gold. Then something wonderful took place for, as her tears fell to the ground, The little shepherdess looked do'tom and saw flowers growing all around. She gathered them and joyfully before the infant's crib she knelt, Her.gift of flowers showing Him that adoration that she felt ••• He touched the petels lovingly, as if each one was so revered, And every place he put his hands a bit of softest pink appeared. And so a flower that never bloomed in any place or clime before Began to grow that very day to bloom at Christmas evermore. -v-Unknown Before another Christmas da'toms, God grant we earn the peace those ageless stars foretold. Heap on more wood! The wind is chill. But, let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. --Sir Walter Scott PERSONALITY OF THE NONTH A Self-Portrait by Donna Pitcher Most of you p robab Ly know me at least by sight. I came to the Univ. of Utah graduate nursing program in Sept. of '71. In August, I received my masters in Psychiatric Nursing with a focus on children & adolescents. '!'his Sept. I joined the Sophomore faculty. By now you have probably hooked up that tall, slender, har-ried-looking person with medium long browr.. hair with me - and you are right! So what else makes up the 11men I'm trying to introduce? My nursing experience has been varied. I worked in Pediatrics for a year after graduation from Texas Woman's Univ. Followfng that I was in the army fo . two years in Japan. When I returned to the States I accepted a job as clinical asst. (or Asst. Iria t v ) at Texas Woman's Univ. in Ped. Nursing. Discovering there was no job security in teaching with just a B.S. I discovered Utah when investigating graduate schools. The discovery of Utah has not really changed my life style, just broadened it. My interests are mainly the out-of-doors and I must say you have a lot of it here. The beautiful thing is, it is available to the public! The parks and skiing are high on my list. Right now Utah is my home though my family is in Texas. I consider Texas my her., itage and traces of it can be found in my accent. In fact most people would consider the fact that I brought my horse with me a natural result of that heritage. Really it is not, for I was raised in Dallas, and it wasn't until I was 11independent" that I could indulge in my fancy of ovming and training my own horse. She has proven an asset when exploring the r11rks as well as meeting people outside o! the University setting. Though I disclaL strong identification with Texas, I still say~ "Wait until the ice melts and it will STILL be the largest state!" Have a Happy Holiday!! ***-I'* Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing of glory to God and of good will to man.