Now a Department
Because of confusion over the word
"library", medical records has adopted
the name Medical Record Department
instead of Medical Record Library as was
previously used.
Employes are asked to make a dis
tinction between the Medical Record
Department and the Medical Center Li
brary when telephoning or sending mail.
MISS BODIE
MRS. EWINGS
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Intercom Reporters for February Bod/e, Three Other Nurses Promoted
Departmental reporters contributing
to this issue's "Professional News" and
"Intercomments" columns include:
Sheila Blackley, allergy and chest; Col.
Richard Hamer, anatomy; Inez Wilson,
audiovisual education; Hope Jones, bio
chemistry; Nina Waite, business office;
Linda Williams, dietetics; Peggy Poole,
general surgical unit; Chears Williamson,
hospital administration; Cinderella Len-
non, hospital laundry; Kitty Taylor, Med
ical P. D. C.; Betty Kernodie, medical
records; Martha Miles, microbiology; Sue
T. Cable, R. N., operating room; Pattie
Drinard, orthopaedic surgery; Susie Clark,
outpatient department nursing; Grace
Horton, physical therapy; Cedi Carden,
printing department; Marge Stubblefield,
psychiatry; Lorraine Hill, Rehabilitation
Center; Carolyn Baiiey, Sims ward; Judy
Suggs, surgery; Annie Lee Terry, Surgical
P. D. C.; Virginia'Jordan and Leigh Haire,
urology; and Jonelle Gordan, veterinary
medicine.
Attention Senior Nursing Students
Senior nursing students are invited
to submit entries in the national fourth
annual RN Magazine writing contest.
First, second, and third prizes are $500,
$300, and $100, respectively.
Articles may be in any literary form,
but all subjects must have some nursing
connection. Entries are to be between
800 and 1,500 words.
Senior students interested in entering
should send their articles to Student
Awards Editor, RN Magazine, Oradell,
N. J., 07649. Deadline is April 30.
Miss Geraldine Bodie, R. N., who has
been serving as assistant director for
nursing in charge of medical nursing, has
been appointed director of systems and
methods improvement for nursing service.
The aim of the new position, according
to Miss Bodie, is to improve delivery of
patient care.
She will work in a variety of areas as a
liaison from nursing to set up more
efficient methods of getting services to
the patient. Present plans call for her to
begin working with Mrs. Betty Danziger
on improving the system of admitting
patients, and with Dr. Frederick Graybeal
in planning central clinical laboratories.
In addition, she will be in charge of
reorganizing ward manuals and nursing
procedure books.
Miss Bodie, who received her A. B.
degree from Lenoir Rhyne College in
Hickory, N. C., is a graduate of the Johns
Hopkins School of Nursing. She com
pleted her master's degree in nursing
administration at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland in 1962.
She came to Duke as a staff nurse in
1952 and also at one time served as head
nurse on Osier ward.
Miss Nancy Gray, R. N., was promoted
to clinical supervisor of medical wards.
Named clinical supervisor of surgical
wards on the 11 to 7 shift was Mrs.
Jackie Ewings, R. N.
Also promoted was Miss Rosa Steele,
R. N., who is now a clinical nurse II.
Public Relations Office
Box 3354
Duke University IVIedicai Center
Durhann, North Carolina
27706
Licensed practical nurses who are in
terested in taking the one-year post
graduate program in operating room tech
nique should contact Harry Brown, OR
administrator, by February 23.