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Editor --------------- Elaine R. Spalding
Editorial Committee: George Mack, Elon Clark, Sam Ag-
nello, Cecil McClees, S. Douglas Smith, Doris Linderoth
Writers: Grace McClees, Jay Cook, Frances Patterson.
Published monthly by and for the staff of Duke Univer
sity Medical Center, Box 3354, Durham, North Carolina.
PROFESSIONAL NEWS
*** Dr. Jay M. Arena is leaving the Children's Clinic
in Durham, which he started many years ago, to
devote full time to the Duke Medical Center,
where he will continue his work as professor of
pediatrics and director of the Poison Control
Center. In addition, Dr. Arena will assume sev
eral other duties, principally with Dr. Harvey
Estes in the new Department of Community Health
Sciences and as secretary to the Duke Medical
Alumni Association,
*** Dr. Edmund C. Dyas, IV, an assistant resident in
orthopaedics, has been named recipient of a
fellowship from the United Cerebral Palsy Found
ation, effective January 1. Dr. Thomas E. Andre-
oli, assistant professor of medicine and physio
logy and head of the division of clinical physio
logy at Duke University, has received a research
career development award from the National Insti
tute of General Medical Sciences.
*** Dr. P.D. Kenan attended the Southern Triological
Conference in Florida Jan. ll-13th. Dr. Robert
. Whalen will attend the regional meetings of the
American Federation for Clinical Research in
New Orleans, Jan. 24-27. Dr. Whalen is Secre
tary- Treasurer of the Southern Section, American
Federation for Clinical Research. Dr. Cleanes
Bennett is new at Duke Medical Center as Asso
ciate in the Department of Medicine.
*** Alexander A. Cosmatos, who is Post Doctoral Re
search Associate in the Department of Microbio
logy, is working with Dr. Wheat of the Univ
ersity of Athens, Greece. Jean Campbell is the
new Assistant Director to Dean Brown, Dean of
the School of Nursing.
*** On January 24th, 25th, and 26th, the Duke Hyper
baric Chamber will provide the facilities for a
series of experiments by Dr. Abraham Rudolf,
Professor of Pediatrics at the Cardio Vascular
Research Institute in San Francisco, California.
Dr. Rudolf and his associates will perform two
experiments a day on each of the three days.
On Thursday, the 25th, he will deliver a lecture
on pulmonary vascular changes from birth onward
in the Duke Amphitheatre.
FROM THE DESK OF.. . DEAN BROWN
School of Nursing
New Year's is traditionally the time to take stock
of one's situation and to plan for the year ahead.
In the Nursing Service of the Medical Center, this
New Year has served as the midpoint of a period of
assessment and planning for the future. In 1968,
there promises to be a growing demand for highly spe
cialized nursing care for an increasing number of
patients. Before June, four nursing units will re
open following remodeling and renovations, augmenting
the number of inpatients by approximately one hundred
and fifty. Many of these people will have complex
nursing needs, particularly those in the enlarged re
covery and intensive care area, the expanded cardiac
care unit and the nursery for acutely ill young infants.
While planning to provide for these increased service
needs, the Nursing Service is making great efforts to
improve the quality of care afforded to all patients.
During 1968 a number of programs and special projects
will be launched or enlarged to assist the nursing
personnel in their efforts. An expanded program of
continuing education is being planned to assist all
nursing persons to more fully develop their abilities.
Continued learning is fundamental to promotion and in
creased job satisfactions. This month several of our
practical nurses are starting their six month program
in advanced practical nursing which will prepare them
for positions of greater responsibility and reward.
Increased learning facilities are being developed
for in-service education. The old record room is
being remodeled into a well planned and equipped class
room and learning laboratory for inservice education.
This year should see the production of several tele
vision tapes for teaching both within the Medical Cen
ter and outside in other hospitals. Another program
scheduled for 1968 is a career counseling service.
Staff members together with a counselor will assess
their interests, abilities and goals. In addition to
regularly undertaking study in in-service education or
University courses, growth in abilities will be foster
ed by selected job placements. Renovations planned
for the Nursing Service offices will make them larger,
more attractive and enable staff to meet privately with
a career counselor.
As the Medical Center grows larger, ways are being
increasingly utilized to facilitate communication and
joint planning of diverse groups. For example, this is
the second year of work by a committee made up of nurs
ing supervisors and faculty of the School of Nursing.
This group is meeting monthly to find ways by which the
expertness of all Duke nurses can be used maximally to
meet patient needs. Considerations are being given to
the initiation of team nursing, joint appointments of
nurses on the Faculty of the School and in the Nursing
Service, the use of consultants and the greater use of
clinical nursing specialists in the direct care of
patients. More Medical Center committees now have
active nurse members. This permits the nursing needs
of patients to be considered in the design of units,
in the early recruitment and preparation of adequate
nursing staff and in better programming for patients in
new units of the future. Even in the face of increased
patient load and the expected staff changes, 1968 can
close with each member of the nursing staff confident
that she has grown in her ability to give good nursing
care and that many patients have benefited from her
ministrations. This will be possible if we all cont
inue to work together with the unity and industry that
have characterized the Nursing Service.