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ifl STAFF PHOTO BY LYNN CARLSON NURSING DIRECTOR CONNIE SHEA enters patient informa tion with the touch of a finger into one of Dosher Memorial Hospital's new computer "chart carts." DOE SEEKING REVIEW Federal Judge Blocks Acceptance Of Spent Fuel Bound For Port BY SUSAN USHER A federal judge in South Carolina extended an injunction Tuesday blocking the delivery of shipments of foreign research reactor spent nu clear fuel due to arrive at Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal near Southport this month. The First 159 fuel elements were to arrive at the U.S. Army docks aboard two ships arriving the same unannounced day, each delivering two sealed casks of rods, and were to remain at the terminal no more than 24 hours before starting the journey by rail to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River Site storage facility near Aiken, S.C. Jayne Brady, spokesman for the Energy Department in Washington, D.C., said Tuesday that the agency will ask the Department of Justice to seek an immediate review of the in junction issued by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Perry. Perry issued a temporary order Friday after the state of South Carolina Filed suit against the feder al agency in an attempt to block the shipments, then extended the order Tuesday following a four-hour hear ing held Monday. According to Brady, the ship car rying the first two casks of fuel rods has left its Scandinavian port and is on its way to Sunny Point, but will not be allowed to dock until the is sue is resolved. She would not say what DOE's plans are if the order has not been lifted by the time the first ship arrives off the coast. "We have several options but we're not considering that now be cause the ship is still on its way," she said. Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, responding to Perry's decision, said the acceptance of the fuel by the U.S. is "an issue of grave impor tance for preventing the spread of dangerous weapons material." DOE has acted responsibily, she said, and will continue to pursue ac ceptance of the fuel here. Prevention of the spread of nu clear weapons is a fundamental for eign policy and national security ob jective of the United States, Assistant DOE Secretary Thomas Grumbly advised in a submission to the court Monday. The challenge by South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell comes after the Energy Department agreed in negotiations earlier this month to fund security and protection mea sures, in excess of federal require ments, requested by both South Carolina and North Carolina. North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt has also raised strenuous objections to entry of the fuel rods into the coun try through a North Carolina port and their transport across the state as an unnecessary threat to public health and safety. The Sunny Point terminal was chosen from among a group of like ly East Coast ports in part because of its relative isolation and proximi ty to the Aiken site. Landlord Investment Program Implemented With Weatherization The Brunswick County Public Housing Agency has developed a landlord Owner Investment Pro gram to be implemented in conjunc tion with the 1993-94 Weathe rization Assistance Program. The landlord Investment Pro gram will provide home weatheriza tion to elderly, disabled, handi capped and low-income Brunswick Countians, according to a news re lease from Thurman B. Everett, county public housing director. The U.S. Department of Energy requires that landlords invest in the cost of materials and labor. The in vestment can be monetary or an in kind investment, Everett said. "The monetary investment is 10 percent of the total cost of materials Six Earn Degrees Six Brunswick County students were among 199 granted degrees from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington at the end of summer semester 1 994. Among degree recipients were Bradley Wallace Anderson of Leland, Shelia Jean Greene of Leland, Bonner Davis Herring of Southport, Terry White Kirby of Southport, Alvin Richard Labelle Jr. of Southport, and Penny Cochran Martin of Long Beach. and labor up lo seven units, and 30 percent beyond seven units weather ized," he said. "The landlord can elect an in-kind investment where he or she provides the labor from his or her own crews." Applications for the landlord pro gram must be submitted by the land lord or owner. Applications cannot be accepted from tenants, Everett said. Applications are being accepted at the Brunswick County Public Housing Agency, Brunswick County Government Complex, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. For more information contact Everett or Eric Smith, weatheriza tion coordinator, at 253-4301. This newspaper is printed on recycled THE BRUNSWKXftftACON Computerized Charting Expected To Save Time, Steps, Paper At Dosher Hospital BY LYNN CARLSON Call them state-of-the-art chart carts. Connie Shea does. Shea, director of nursing at Dosher Memorial Hospital in South port, has been planner and trainer for a $75,000 project to computerize medical records at the hospital, a move expected to increase accuracy and efficiency, save staff time, and streamline ordering and billing. The computerized charting sys tem will go on line Monday for use by all nurses and their assistants. Instead of carrying clipboards in their hands and pens around their necks, nurses will roll the computer carts into patients' rooms, plug them in and enter information with the touch of a fingertip on the computer monitor screen. The carts can oper ate on batteries for up to two hours. A patient's "chart," or medical record, is printed and bound for use by the attending physician. Vital sta tistics are graphed by the computer. Bad handwriting is no longer an is sue, nor is the traditional problem of nurses having to keep up with infor mation until they can find a minute to stop and write it down. "There've been times when I've actually had to write information on my scrubs until I could sit down and write charts." The new charting system auto matically leads the nurse or assistant through the steps of gathering pa tient data, offering prompts when more information should be entered. In addition to recording patients' medical information, the carts con tain locked cabinets beneath the computer monitor where medica tions can be stored. "Every item is bar-coded," Shea explains. "When a patient is given a medication, the account is automati cally charged and the item is deleted from inventory." When tests are ordered via com puter, the lab is notified immediately and a test tube label is printed, sav ing steps, paper and time. Nurses' stations will have fixod computers where physicians can re view patient data and nursing notes. Dosher will be the only hospital in the Carolinas and Virginia to use the chart cart system, whose soft ware was developed especially for hospitals with less than 2(X) beds. Shea helped adapt the computer pro gram to Dosher's system of docu menting patient information. She al so wrote what's being called "Connie's Cookbook," a training manual Dosher nurses can use on the job to practice with ?h? comput ers and to study at home. It hasn't been easy to convince some veteran nurses and assistants it's time to ride the wave of the fu ture, Shea said. She's trying to make computerization less intimidating by offering plenty of practice. A room has been converted into a computer learning center, with chart carts on which to enter simulated da ta, a printer and a table and chairs for studying training manuals. "I think they're going to love it," Shea says confidently. NOW VOUR AD CAN REACH ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA FOR ONLY 25 WORDS $6 each additional word BLANKET NORTH CAROLINA OVER 120 NEWSPAPERS (For more information, call this newspaper or...) SIMPLY FILL OUT THIS FORM AND SEND WITH YOUR CHECK. (No Phone Orders. Larger order forms are available from this newspaper.) Name Address .Zip. Advertising Copy: 25 Words ? $6 each additional word over 25. Word count: Telephone numbers (including area code) equal one word. Post office box numbers as two words, box numbers and route numbers as two words. 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