Photo by Sparks
N T E R C
DUKE UNIVERSITY
MEDICAL CENTER
VOLUME VS, NUMBER 4
APRIL, 1966
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Visiting Lecturer Concerned with Future of Nursing
A nationally known authority
on nursing and nursin" educa
tion, Dr. Eleanor Lanibertsen,
delivered the third annual Duke
University School of Nursing
lecture.
In her lecture, entitled “N\irs-
iii" Dimensions: Pacing Nurs
ing’s Obligations for the Fu
ture,” Dr. Lanibertsen noted
that excuses for mediocrity in
patient and family services are
influenced by ‘ ‘ the ghost of nurs
ing sliortage.”
“With the increasing com
plexity of health institutions, the
most talented personnel in nurs
ing service has been increasingly
concerned with the management
of things—supplies, equipment
and the like,” she said.
As a result, Dr. Lanibertsen
stated, less capable and less
trained personnel are actually
providing the nursing services
to patients.
“It is my strong belief that
there has been too much empha
sis on role definition and isola
tion,” she said. “Priority must
be given to the effective utiliza
tion of personnel,” she stressed.
“And the introduction of every
known method for increasing the
potential of nurses must be en
couraged.”
She also noted that the im
provement and provision of
nursing services are challenges
from the Medicare program.
The lecture was part of a se
ries of lectures given annually
during the school’s alumnae
weekend to offer new concepts
and to give greater impetus to
the development of nursing.
The second day of Dr. Lam-
bertsen’s visit was set aside for
group discussions of issues con
cerning nursing service, nursing
students, and nursing education.
Dr. Lambertsen, Dean of the
Division of Nursing Education
at Columbia University Teach
ers’ College, is an adviser to the
Memorial Center for Cancer and
nursing service department of
Allied Diseases and a consultant
to hospitals and schools of nurs
ing in the United States, Brazil
and Chile. She also is a con
sultant to the International Co
operation Administration.
Ambulatory Dining
Room Closed for
Renovation
The Ambulatory Dining Room
is being renovated in order to
have an area for serving food to
patients after the new wing
opens. This third floor dining
room will be closed to patients,
administrative staff, and faculty
for renovation after the noon
meal on Friday, May 27. At
present, it is scheduled to re
open near the first of September,
1966.
During this time, all patients
will be served trays, and the staff
and faculty are requested to eat
in the first floor cafeteria.
The renovation includes put
ting a small assembly tray line
in the back area and making
the cafeteria area into one line.
The dining room will retain the
same seating capacity as now
exists.
OR SCOR BOARD
Designed at Duke
The operating room SCOR
Board is a Duke Hospital orig
inal.
The idea was conceived by an
operating room committee of
seven appointed persons and
Dr. Jay Goldman, an industrial
engineer at N.C. State Univer
sity in Raleigh. The committee
was asked to find a method which
would help Duke Hospital to
utilize the operating rooms in
the best possible manner and at
the same time reduce the over
time created by operations per
formed after 3:30 P.M. Serving
on the committee with Dr. Gold
man were ilrs. Margaret Wat
son, Mr. Charles Boone, and Drs.
Clierny, Goldner, Silver, Stephen
and Bassett.
Several reasons can be given
for the operating room study.
There was too much time lapse
existing betwen cases. Study
was needed to discover if more
operating room space was need
ed or if the existing space simply
was not being used to maximum
efficiency. There was also the
problem—shared by hospitals
across the country—of a short
age in trained operating room
personnel which called for care
fully jilanned use of personnel
available.
In addition to the committee
meetings, studies were conducted
for a year by Dr. Goldman and
another industrial engineer also
from N.C. State University.
The SCOR Board plan which
resulted from the committee
meetings and special studies was
devised to help provide a visual
monitoring and control system
for operations scheduled daily in
tlie ojieratiiig rwniis.
(Continued, page 7)
Entcrtiiined at a coffoe hour given in her lioiior, Dr. Kleancr Laml)ortsen is
shown engiiKiiiR in some of the productive conversing wliich marked her visit
to Duke University to deliver the third annual lecture of the School of Nursing’s
annual lecture series.