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Chowan Students in Program at Duke
CLASS OF /570—These Chowan nursing students are trained in a
variety of nursing skills while they are at Duke. From left are Mrs. Marcell
Cooper, Mrs. Sue Griffith, and Miss Gwen Hyatt, (photo by Dave Hooks)
It takes at least three years and a
lot of hard work to become a
registered nurse.
For nursing students at Chowan
College in Murfreesboro, one of
those years and a good portion of
the hard work is done at Duke.
The program is a cooperative
venture between Duke and
Chowan, a two-year college which
awards associate degrees in nursing
and several other fields.
Chowan nursing students spend
two years in Murfreesboro on the
Chowan campus studying basic
sciences and liberal arts courses in
addition to learning introductory
nursing skills.
Then they come to Duke for a
year to take clinical rotations in
psychiatric, medical-surgical, and
maternal-child nursing at the
Medical Center.
"The students work with a wide
range of patients at a large medical
center like Duke and can use their
nursing skills in all areas," Miss
Maryiva Carpenter, program
coordinator, said.
Duke benefits, too, since many
of the Chowan students remain on
the hospital staff when they
graduate!
At Duke, Chowan students
receive regular classroom
instruction in nursing care along
with laboratory experience on the
wards. The students choose those
patients who have problems related
to the field they are studying.
The year of study at Duke ends
in May when the new nurses add a
black band to their student caps
upon graduation. They are then
eligible to take the state licensing
examination to receive the R.N.
designation.
1970 Chowan graduates who
earned the associate degree in
nursing include Miss Margaret
Brokaw of Webster, New York,
Mrs. Rita Whitley Burgess of
Murfreesboro, Miss Sandra Diane
Couch of Rocky Mount, Mrs.
Cynthia Joyner Hall of Ahoskie,
Miss Gwenda Dianne Hyatt of
Winston-Salem, Miss Julia Ann Liles
of Halifax, Miss Velda Lynn
Gardner of Macclesfield, Miss
Evelyn Kaye Moore of Watha, Miss
Diana J. Pearce of Zebulon, Miss
Nancy Dark Perry of Pittsboro,
Miss Frances Kathryn Redwine of
Shallotte and Miss Judith Ann
Wiggins of Ahoskie.
LEAVING DUKE—Dr. George D. Wilbanks, left, and Dr. Walter
Cherny, center, were honored at a bon voyage party given by Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology personnel last month. Dr. Wilbanks, an
associate professor, took over the chairmanship of the Ob-Gyn
Department at the Rush Medical College and Presbyterian-St. Luke's
Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Cherny, a full professor at Duke since 1968, left
to take a position as professor and director of medical education in the
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Good Samaritan Hospital in
Phoenix, Arizona, (photo by Dave Hooks)