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Work with Children Offers Its Own Reward A study ... to “improve the services offered to our patients.” Work Schednlinf Study Oondiictcd “How many eggs did you get? I got one already an’ I liaven’t even really tried hard, yet!” Such was the beginning of the Auxiliary’s annual Easter egg hunt, usually held on the How land porch, but held this year in the playroom because of inclem ent weather. Started about five years ago under the direction of Llrs. Wil liam (Fran) Byrne, the Easter egg hunt is one of the annual activities of the Auxiliary’s Chil dren ’s Committee. This year, six children from Howland, given permission by their doctors to join in the hunt, poked, prodded and pondered in efforts to locate the 126 plastic eggs that had been artfully hid den by the “ladies in pink.” When all the eggs w'cre col lected—or almost all—the chil dren carefully fixed twenty other baskets and carried them to Ilow’land friends who were un able to leave their beds. On Matas, eggs were hidden on the ward, for most of these chil dren were surgical patients and could not go to the playroom. Sixteen hunted for eggs with the help of their nurses and the vol unteers. The children kept their bas kets and the “booty” in each, which consisted of the plastic eggs (w'ith candy eggs inside each) and a fuzzy toy chick. “The children think it’s a lot of fun, and several weeks later they were still finding eggs in the playroom that had been so well hidden they had not been discovered,” said Mrs. Connie Costing, present chairman of the Children’s Committee. Mrs. Costing has found her work with the committee very rewarding. “It is so rewarding to see how hapi>y these children can be in si>ite of their prob lems, ’ ’ she said. Tlie Children’s (committee, as its title indicates, is concerned with children and their hospital experiences. It is this Auxiliary committee that is responsible for providing playroom activities every morning and afternoon and arranging such seasonal ga iety as that just described and the Christmas j)arty. “AVe could carry on a much better ]>rogram if we had more volunteers,” said Mrs. Costing. “We never have too manj’ volun teers on this committee; because, when someone is not needed in the playroom, they go and read to the children who can’t get out of bed and come to the play room. Extra adult volunteers are especially needed in the sum mer, although we would welcome more at any time of the year.” Mrs. Costing noted that before thej’ can open the playroom to the children at least two volun teers must be present. “Some days,” she said, “we just don’t have enough volunteers, and the children are so disappointed if we cannot open the room for them. ” Anyone interested in helping with the committee should call Mrs. Mary Daughertj', admin istrative secretarj’ for the x\.uxil- iary, at Duke Extension 3981 or go by her office, which is located on the first floor of the hospital in room 1006. New Diet Manual Introduced The Dietetic Department is most grateful to the Medical- Nutrition Advisory Committee, which is made up of representa tives from each service, for the revision of the Diet Manual for Duke University Medical Cen ter. Copies of the revised Diet Manual have been placed at each nurses station and clinic area. Some of the changes to note in the revised manual are: (1) Lean pork is used on all solid food diets. (2) The bland diets have been combined into two stages. (3) Tables with amounts of sodi um and potassium in serv ing portions of commonly used food are included. (4) Two new diets have been added, a low potassium diet and a mechanical soft diet. (5) Normal height and weight tables and standard liquid measures are also included. (6) More detailed information about the Dietetic Depart ment can be found in the front of the Diet Manual. Duke University has invited the Alexander Proudfoot Com pany to come on campus and conduct a work scheduling study with the medical center depart ments of housekeeping, laundry, and inpatient nursing and the overall university departmentH of maintenance, operations and grounds. The representatives of the company arrived the first of April, and will be on campus for six months working in the areas assigned with supervisors and their employees. During the first part of the study, they will learn how and when work is being done. Then the representatives will design and install a work scheduling system for each department to plan and carry out its work load and will stay on the scene work ing with the supervisors until the new system is functioning smoothly. The system will be designed to be self-perpetuating, so that even if the departmental jobs change in nature, the sys tem will still be effective. “With the work scheduling study, we are accomplishing one of the steps of our broad program of improved person nel administration,” said Mr. Charles Frenzel, Administrative Director of the medical center. “The study, it is hoped, wull ini])rove the services offered to our patients.” NATIONAL HOSPITAL WEEK, May 8-14, is built around the ilay 12 birthday of Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse crusader. It was through her efforts that the early hospital schools of nursing were established. INTERCOM - 3 APRIL 1966
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