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Patient Care from Six to Seventeen For years we gave them bed side care With pills and salves and shots. Later we added diversions To cheer the teens and tots. With comics and crayons and coloring hooks We helped them pass the time. But not ’til we added the teacher Could we complete this rhyme. In the late 1950’s Dr. Husaii Dees of tlie Duke University -Medical Center Department of Pediatries began in her elTorts to open the eyes of the publij to the necessity of in-hospital teachers. In 1959, due to the eiforts of Dr. Dees and other interested persons, Duke Hos pital became the first hospital in the state to offer an in-hospital teaching program. Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill was tlie second to establish such a program. For six years Duke and -Memorial were the only two general hospitals in North Caro lina offering in-hospital teaching as a part of patient care. Then, several months ago, legislative action was taken providing funds for a statewide in-hospital teaching program. Following this legislative action, the state allotted two more teachers to the City of Durham. Both were to assume teaching positions within Duke Hospital. The two teachers selected for the “new” positions are Mrs. Emily Hyatt and Miss Virginia Aldige. Mrs. Ilyatt has been at Duke since 1960 as an in-hospital teacher. Miss Aldige came to Duke in September. Although both teachers are now salaried by the state, they will work under the direction of the Durham ('ity School Board and Duke Hos- l)ital. All books and supplies will be provided by the city. The in-hospital teaching is of fered free of charge to those school-age patients who are expected to be in the hospital for two weeks or longer. Each teacher will have approximately twelve ‘ ‘ students ’ ’ on her role to be seen every day. I\Irs. Hyatt is now working with grades 1 through 7, and Miss Aldige is working with the older students ill grades 8 through 12. The teachers will be “based” pri marily on Howland Ward and may be reached at extension 3951. ‘ ‘ The program has kept many from having to repeat a grade, especially those who are bed ridden but not too sick to study,” says Mrs. Hyatt. Since both Mrs. Ilyatt and Miss Aldige are state accredited, a “stu dent” can complete as much as a year’s work while in the hos pital. It has been Airs. Hyatt’s experience that “in six months here a child can often do nine months of regular school work.” She has been told that when the in-hos])ital “students” return to school they are often ahead of their classmates. Mrs. Hyatt’s longest “term” student was a child who was a patient for seven itionths. The child comj)leted the fifth grade while in the hospital. Most of the advantages of the program are obvious, (/ertainly, the ])rogram boosts the morale of both the patient and the parents, and is therefore understandably therapeutic. The therapeutic nature of the program and the other merits of in-hospital teach ing were recognized long ago, but it has taken nmny years to convince and educate the public of the need for teachers in hos- j)itals as a part of j)atient care. North Carolina is fortunate to have had for these past years the continuing interest of Dr. Dees and the others who early recog nized the need and persevered in their efforts to educate. In-hospital teachers, Mrs. Emily Hyatt (seated) and Miss Virginia Aldige pay an afternoon “visit” to a small patient on Howland Ward. Retirements and Resignations Announced Dr. Duncan C. Hetheking- TON, Professor of Anatomy, re tired from the Department on August 31. Dr. Iletherington has accepted a one-year appoint ment as Professor of Anatomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mrs. Edith Brockeh, Asso ciate Professor, and Elinor Caddei-l, Assistant Professor, have resigned from the staff of the School of Nursing to join the staff at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. There are four other resigna tions from the staff of the School of Nursing: Mary Steele, As sistant Professor; Lynn (-ol- LiNS, Instructor; Capitola Mat tingly, Director of Oraduate Studies; and Rosemary Lem- moni). Instructor. Dr. Charles E. Mengel, an A.ssociate in Medicine at Duke since 1962, has joined the staff of Ohio State University College of Aledicine in Columbus as Asso ciate Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Service of Hematology. Dr. Charles AV. Neville, Jr., Assistant Professor of Psychia try, has been made Medical Director of Highland Hospital in Asheville, N. C. Mrs. Christine Thompson has retired from fulltime in- structorship, but will continue to serve as a part-time Instructor in Physical Therapy. Dr. James Wyngaarden, Pro fessor of Aledicine here at Duke from 1956 to 1965 is now Chair man of the Department of Medi cine at the University of Penn sylvania in Philadelphia. The Department of Psychiatry announces the following resigna tions : Dr. Larry Kroner, of the Division of Child Psychiatry; Dr. Robert E. Smith, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and As sistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Psychiatric (’ouiisel; and Anna JIarqaret Mac- Lauciilin, also of the Division of ('hild Psychiatry. Dr. George Lynn, former Director of the Audiology Clinic, has accepted a j)osition in the Department of Audiologj" of the Rehabilitation Institute in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Stanley Kurtz has re signed from his position as As sociate Professor of Pathology and is now with the Research Division of Parke Davis in iVnn Arbor, ^Michigan. Dr. J. V. Klavins, former Professor of Pathology, has re cently joined the staff at Brook- lyn-Cumberland Aledical ('enter in Brooklyn, New York, as Director of Laboratories. WAG’S WISDOM: “A good diplomat will always think twice before saying nothing. ’ ’ INTERCOM - 5 OCTOBER 1965
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