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6 More Than 60 New R.N.’s Special Training Will Begin Work at Duke Grant Awarded Tho Qr'hnnl r\-f -fltfA Dozens of new registered nurses are joining the Duke staff this sumnner as the result of an extensive nurse recruitment program. From May 15 through October 6, more than 60 new R. N/s will have begun work in the hospital. The recruitment program was expand ed to provide replacements for the usual summer increase in resignation of nurses. In addition, many of the new R. N.'swill increase complements of nurses on some wards and staff several newly renovated wards just opening. James Smeltzer, formerly assistant to the director of personnel at the medical center, and Frank Gay, director of em ployment for the University, have been spearheading the program. During the past year, nurse recruiters have visited more than 35 colleges, junior colleges and schools of nursing along with eight national and state nursing con ventions throughout the East talking with students and nurses about the opportuni ties for nursing at Duke. In addition, brochures describing the nursing atmosphere at Duke Hospital were sent to thousands of graduate nur^ ses, tours were planned to show prospec tive nurses around the area, and Duke nurses from other parts of the country went back to their nursing schools to talk to students about the possibilities of working at Duke. Proposals in the planning stages to en courage professional nurses to use their NEW R. N/s JOIN DUKE STAFF— These three graduate nurses are part of the complement of more than 60 who are coming to work at the medical center this summer. (photo by Jim Wallace) skills at Duke include a paid summer resi dency program for student nurses, an ex panded orientation program about Duke and the community and an expanded special service program to aid the new R. N.'s in getting situated in Durham. Although nurse recruitment is being intensified this summer at the medical center, the program has been established on a permanent basis for several years. Assistants Begin Training The medical center took another step toward meeting the ever-increasing need for paramedical personnel this month with the opening of the new Pathology Assistant Program. The pathology assistant students, un der the direction of the departments of pathology at Duke and at the Durham Veterans' Administration Hospital, began a one-year course in classroom, labora tory and practical work July 1. The pathology assistant will be trained to aid pathologists in the techniques used to study and diagnose disease. The curriculum includes lectures and labs in anatomy, physiology, histology. radiographic technique, pathology, bac teriology and photography. Practical ro tations through the autopsy suite, histolo gy, bacteriology and photography make up the second half of the course. Applicants for the program must have at least a junior college certificate or equivalent or a high school diploma and at least two years experience as a hospital corpsman. An aptitude test is required of prospective high school students. The first class, consisting of three stu dents, includes Norman Gerard of Mil waukee, Wis., John McNamee of Salem, Mass., and Coy Wagoner of Sandborn, Ind. The School of Medicine is among five schools to share planning grants to study methods of producing a new type of clinical physician and to upgrade com munity health care services. In addition to Duke, Case Western Reserve, Johns Hopkins, McGill and Stan ford universities will divide the $298,100 grant from the Commonwealth Fund and the $250,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation. The program is being developed under supervision of the departments of medi cine at the five schools. Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, chairman of medicine at Duke, said the program is being carried out in conjunction with the department of community health sciences. Dr. E. Har vey Estes, chairman. Dr. Wyngaarden and Dr. Estes will name a director. Program directors from the schools will meet frequently and trainees will have a chance to observe what is being done at the other universities. Dr. Wyngaarden said a new type of clinical scholar is one who uses the most modern technological advances to obtain and store patient data and who incor porates trained colleagues into a system of caring for his patients. The grants will permit a study to de termine how computers and other sophis ticated equipment can be used in the practice of medicine. Reporters contributing to the "Pro fessional News" and "Intercomments" columns in July include the following: Sheila Blackley, allergy and chest; Inez Wilson, audiovisual education; Hope Jo nes, biochemistry; Bobby Clark, bio mathematics; Nina Waite, business office; Ellen Bivins, cardiology; June Perry, cli nical research unit; Patsey Sutphin, hema tology; Mamie Silsbee, hospital adminis tration; Judith Auman, immunology; Eli zabeth Vickroy, medical center library; Al Taylor, nursing service; Sue T. Cable, R. N., operating room; Carol Martin, ophthalmology; Helen Ferrell, outpatient department; Gene Winders, pathology; Dot Efiand, PDC annex; Faith Gehweiler, physical therapy; Gwen Evans, plastic and oral surgery; Marge Stubblefield, psychia try; Helen Thomas, School of Medicine; Judy Suggs, surgery; Annie Lee Terry, Surgical PDC; Rebecca Little, unit admin istration, and Jonelle Gordon, veterinary medicine.
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