Mr. Ken Sclioonliagen (left) listens to members of the research team that is
under his direction discuss some of the early results of the study they are
conducting on the unit administration project at Duke. Involved in the dis
cussion are: (from left) Susan Hutchins, a nurse; Mrs. Margaret JIunn, a
housekeeping consultant with a background in home economics; Mrs. Mar
jorie O’Borke, also a nurse; and Miss Tiphaine R. Burgess, a dietitian and
formerly tlie administrative dietitian at Watts Hospital in Durham.
Research Team
To Study Unit
A new research team has be
gun operations in the hospital.
Two nurses, an administrator,
an industrial engineer, a sociolo
gist, a dietitian, and a house
keeper are studying the unit ad
ministration project which be
gan operations at Duke in 1964.
(See center feature, pages 6, 7.)
The team is sponsored by a
two-year U.S. Public Health
Service grant of $153,796, which
was awarded to Mr. C. II. Fren-
zel, administrative director; Mr.
R. E. Jennings, assistant direc
tor; and Dr. J. Goldman, a con
sultant and professor of indus
trial engineering at North Caro
lina State University in Raleigh.
While studying the operations
of the unit, the team will try to
step back and look objectively
at what has and has not been ac
complished in the two and a half
years of the unit project. Trou
ble spots will be pin-pointed.
They will try to develop a more
eifective distribution of activi
ties performed (who .should be
doing what) and study new
methods of accomplishing the
desired level of patient care.
During their studies, visits
will be made to other hospitals
to determine how the other in
stitutions have attempted to re
lieve ward nursing of the “non
nursing” details of patient care
and to see in what manner they
provide assistance in the coor
dination of all patient services.
In general, the research will
include trying to get at the root
of such persistent problems as:
What tasks must be done to pro
vide ideal patient care? Who
should do them ? If patient care
is not what it should be, why
not? AVhat can be done to im
prove it on an administrative
level ?
It is hoped that the results of
the in-depth study can be made
available to others in the hospi
tal field who could benefit from
the new concept of unit admin
istration. There is a noticeable
absence of such a detailed study
readily available for general
reference, and yet it is estimated
that the unit concept may con
ceivably be applicable to 15-
25% of the hospitals in the
United States today.
Hart Honored it
ilumni Weekend
The highlight of the November
two-day medical alumni week
end was the dedication by Duke
President Douglas M. Knight of
the Deryl Hart Pavilion, a sec
tion of the medical center which
accommodates private beds, the
Private Diagnostic Clinics, and
the Out-Patient Department.
Professor and chairman emeri
tus of the Department of Sur
gery and a past president of the
university. Dr. Hart played a
major role in building the medi
cal center’s reputation as one of
the best in the country.
The dedication was witnes.sed
by the more than 200 alumni
from the classes and housestaff
of 1936, 1941, 1946, 1951, 1956,
and 1961 who were attending the
weekend. (Over half of the
class of ’56 returned!)
In the course of the dedication
program, Dr. Barnes Woodhall,
vice provost in cliarge of medical
affairs who has known Dr. Hart
Dr. Deryl Hart
for over twenty years, spoke of
the influence Dr. Hart has had
on the medical center. Included
in his remarks were the follow
ing quotes:
“Dr. Hart is a surgeon’s sur
geon. Since surgery is a rather
lonely business, one can define
the term only in intuitive and
intangible ways with the impor
tant additional fact that patients
get well when they are treated
by a surgeon’s surgeon. The
early appointment of a surgeon
of this stature ‘set the style,’ as
it were, for the medical cen
ter. . . .
“In a few years it was appar
ent to all that Deryl possessed
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PROFESSIONAL NEWS
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a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Southern
Medical Association. • MR. RAY E. BROWN, director of the
Graduate Program in Hospital Administration, has been named to
a special advisory committee to the U.S. Surgeon General. He was
one of eleven national leaders in the fields of medicine, health, edu
cation, and civic affairs appointed to the committee. • DR. JAMES
WILSON, of the Department of Anatomy, was guest lecturer for
several weeks at Rutgers University Medical School, New Bruns
wick, New Jersey. This is the fir.st year of operations for the medi
cal scliool. • DR. GUY L. ODOM, professor of neurosurgery and
chairman of the Division of Neurosurgery, was
elected president of the American Academy of
Neurological Surgery at tlie academy’s annual
meeting, held in San Francisco in October. • DR.
EUGENE D. DAY, director of graduate studies
in the Department of Microbiology and Immu
nology, is the author of a new book, entitled Foun
dations of Immunochcmistry. It is a study of
the chemical events that take place in immunol
ogy. This is Dr. Day’s second book. • DR.
Dr. Eugene Day JOSEPH A. C. WADSWORTH, chairman of
the Department of Ophthalmology, has been elected chairman of
the Committee on Continuing Education of the Association of
University Professors of Ophthalmology.
— > The new and retiring officers of the Medical Alumni Association are
shown during the November medical alumni weekend. They are (left to right) :
Dr. George Baylin, professor of radiology at Duke (class of ’37), re-elected
treasurer; Dr. Joe Van Hoy of Charlotte (class of ’38), retiring president;
Dr. Kverett Sawyer of Elizabeth City (class of ’39), retiring vice president;
Dr. Talmage Peele, professor of anatomy at Duke (class of ’34), re-elected
secretary; Dr. John Yarl)orough of Maryville, Tennessee (class of ’44), vice
president-elect; and Dr. Frank Chunn of Tampa, Plorida (class of ’36), i)resi-
dent-elect.
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