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Duke Hospital, InterCom
Supt^^
Coxnet
By F. Ross Porter
The substantial grant by the Rocke
feller Foundation in support of our
new program in graduate nurse edu
cation is a significant vote of confi
dence in the soundness of the objec
tives of our total program in nurse
education.
Our relatively new basic degree
program has been firmly based upon
the concept, that while the degree
program must be depended upon as
the principal source for the develop
ment of administrative and instruc
tional nurses, the effectiveness of our
graduates would be determined by
our success or failure in producing,
first of all, a skilled bedside nurse.
The thinking which went into the
development of our post-graduate
program carried this principle an ad
ditional step to postulate that, in an
era of rapid medical advancenumt, it
was necessary to develoj) an even
more highly skilled nurse at the post
graduate level in various nursing
specialties. This need was conceived
of as a particularly urgent one be
cause of the greater skills required
for the professional nurse to make
more and more use of lesser trained
people.
Our interest in pursuing these ob-
.ieetives is, of course, twofold. We feel
keenly our responsibility in a medical
center, for making our contribution
toward meeting the insatiable demand
for nursing personnel at all levels.
We are also very mindful of the ab
solute necessity for producing much
of our own supply of nursing person
nel if we are to continue our hospital
operation.
In the jjost-graduate program we
can hope, not only to share in the
supply of nurses produced by the
program, but can also look forward to
augmenting our supply of nurses and
nurse teachers by those nurses who
will work in the hospital or teach
while enrolled here as graduate stu
dents.
It is a source of great satisfaction
to find the revised program in luirs-
ing, which was inaugurated in 1953,
dc'veloping so soundly and rapidly
and to have its latest expansion so
dramatically endorsed by one of the
leading foundations.
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Black, Dania, Fla.; Joann Brown,
Dunbar, W. Va.; and Jo Ann
P>aughan, Princess Anne, Md. The
Kockefeller funds will make possible
expansion of the program in the near
future to include other majors and
more students.
Jliss Thelma Ingles, associate pro
fessor of nursing, is director of the
])rogram in medical and surgical
nursing. The work is done almost
entii'ely through intensive study of
the needs of individual patients.
Other key elements of the graduate
program are courses in the behavioral
sciences and thesis research and writ
ing. Dr. Morton Bogdonoff of the
Department of Medicine attends all
seminars of the group, and serves as
general resource person and consult
ant. Dr. Sanford Cohen of the De
partment of Psychiatry holds weekly
conferences with the group to help
them better understand the dy
namics of human behavior. Others
acitively involved in the program in
clude Betty Sue Johnson, phychiatric
nursing; Helen Johnson, public
health nursing; and Helen McLaeh-
lan, dietary in.struction. Miss Ingles
expressed great pleasure at the en
thusiasm for the program shown by
the medical and surgical faculties and
gratitude for their generosity in con
tributing to the students. Members
of the medical and surgical depart
ments when queried about the stu
dents were equally enthusiastic in
reply. Their comments: “a red hot
program”; “fine nurses; I am tre
mendously impressed with the calibre
of training and degree of interest”;
“amazed at the degree of percep
tion ”; “ tremendous help in handlL
patients; amazed by the amount
industry they show; these are stu
dents with inquiring minds who stim
ulate whatever portion of the service
they are associated with.”
The enthusiastic support being ac
corded this program is understand
able when it is considered in the light
of the nursing situation in North
('arolina; a situation which pertains
as well at the national level. The
shortage of well-trained nurses is be
coming more acute at a time when
hospital beds are rapidly increasing.
Sufficient numbers of highly qualified
nursing instructors and supervisors
are unavailable due to insufificient ed
ucational facilities for such personnel.
The Duke program is designed to help
alleviate this situation by producing
teachers and practitioners of nursing
with a background of superior train
ing in patient care obtained prior to
specialization in teaching techniques.
“Graduate nursing instruction (]|
voted to how to teach is no long*
adequate,” Dean Jacobansky empha
sized. “Rather a considerable em-
])hasis on what to teach is necessary.”
Do You Know That:
the bed capacity of Duke Hospital
with its new wing is 546 beds.
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Duke Hospital discharged 17,954 in
patients during the hospital year Oc
tober 1, 1956 to September 30, 1957.
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the Out-Patient Clinics had 118,855
visits during the same period.
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the Auxiliary makes an average of
1000 cups of coffee a day.
« # #
the house staff of Duke Hospital now
numbers 215 persons.
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it costs a cent and a half every time
OIK* of the elevators makes a trip and
they avera^ice about 50 trips an ho^i