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HONORED AT COFFEE—Rev. Robert Claytor (center) shows a going away present to Chaplain P. Wesley Aitken (left) and Dr. Barnes WoodhalI (right), (staff photo) Drug Fair ScheciulecJ For Feb. 19 The latest advances in pharmaceutical research will be on display Feb. 19 at the medical center's Drug Fair. The program will be open to all interested registered nurses, advanced L. P. N.'s, physicians, and medical and nursing students in Room M-IIO of Davison Building. Representatives of about 25 drug com panies will be present with displays and literature concerning the most recent developments in drugs. In addition, the hospital pharmacy will present an exhibit related to medical requisitions, policies and other items of interest to personnel using the pharmacy. The primary object of the fair is to provide continuing education for pro fessional nurses in the use and admin istration of drugs. The exhibits will be open from 10 a.m. to I p.m. and again from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Carcdiovascular Seminar Given A seminar titled "The Cardiovascular Patient" is being presented semi-weekly through Feb. 27 for surgical nurses. The programs are held from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in Room 3031 of the hospital. Nursing, medicine, surgery, inhalation therapy and physical therapy share teach ing responsibilities for the seminar. All interested professional personnel are in vited to attend any or all of the sessions. Program topics include the following: Feb. 4 Myocardial Infarction in the Post-Operative Patient Feb. 6 Post-Operative Complications (Emboli, Electrolyte Imbalance) Feb. II Post-Operative Complications (continued) Feb. 13 Introduction to EKG monitors, 12-lead EKG Feb. 18 EKG (continued) Feb. 20 Pacemakers Feb. 25 Care of the Patient with a Pace maker Feb. 27 Principles and Practice of Resus- ciatation Legal Implications for Nurses Rev. Claytor The Rev. Robert B. Claytor, an assist ant chaplain at the hospital since 1961, became chaplain of the Spartanburg Gen eral Hospital in Spartanburg, S. C. Feb. 3. Mr. Claytor will establish a chaplaincy program at the 600-bed hospital, where he will be working under Charles Boone, hospital director. Boone formerly was assistant administrative director at Duke. A group of Mr. Claytor's close friends at the hospital honored him at a coffee and reception Jan. 14 in the ambulatory dining room. He was presented with an engraved pen set as a remembrance of his stay at Duke. Mr. Claytor, 35, an ordained Method ist minister, is' a native of Bluefield, W. Va. He earned his B. A. degree at Berea College, his bachelor's in divinity at Duke in I960 and a master's in theol- Ophthalmology The Department of Ophthalmology has been awarded a $5,000 unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc. The money will be used to provide special equipment necessary for inves tigation into diseases resulting in blind ness. Ophthalmology at Duke has received $17,800 in unrestricted grants from RPB over the past four years. Part of a $5,000 grant last year was used to pur chase a laser photocoagulator. The laser is being used to acquire information about safety levels of irradiation in the macular region of the eye. This infor mation will be used to supplement the tentative guidelines for industrial and scientific uses of these instruments. Leaves Duke ogy at Duke in 1961. He took clinical pastoral training from 1959 to 1961 here. Other training has included pastoral work at alcoholic institutions and mental hos pitals. In addition to his work as one of Duke's four fulltime chaplains, Mr. Clay tor also served as an instructor in clinical pastoral education at the Duke Divinity School and as part-time chaplain at the V. A. Hospital. Mr. Claytor is certified by the College of Chaplains of the American Protestant Hospital Association and the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, and he is under endorsement by the Commission on Chaplains of the Methodist Church. He and his wife, the former Miss Joan Irwin of LaFollette, Tenn., are the par ents of two daughters. Receives Grant RPB has also made contributions to ward preliminary planning for the pro posed $3 million Duke eye center to be constructed across Erwin Road from the Veterans' Administration Hospital. Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., is a national voluntary foundation which is dedicated to the eradication of blinding diseases. It has provided nearly $1.25 million in unrestricted annual grants to 40 medical institutions and has channeled more than $14 million into construction of eye research centers at Duke and other universities all over the country. Director of the grant at Duke will be Dr. Joseph A. C. Wadsworth, chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology.
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