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VOLUME 20, NUMBER 38
SEPTEMBER 21, 1973
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
3 New Members Accept Appointments
To the Medical Center Board of Visitors
An Illinois businessman, a Raleigh
native who is a member of the California
state cabinet and a Colorado pediatrician
have accepted appointments to the
Medical Center Board of Visitors.
The 19-member Board of Visitors
meets at Duke for a two-day session each
spring to hear reports on the medical
center's activities and programs and to
make recommendations.
The three new members are:
—Karl D. Bays, president and chief
executive officer of American Hospital
Supply Corp., a multi-national
manufacturer and distributor of health
products and services, headquartered in
Evanston, III.
—Dr. Earl W. Brian, California Gov.
Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Health and
Welfare.
—Dr. C. Henry Kempe, professor and
former chairman of the Department of
Pediatrics at the University of Colorado
School of Medicine in Denver.
Bays joined American Hospital Supply
as a sales representative in 1958 and was
named president of its international
division in 1969. Over the next two years
he was promoted to president of the
corporation, elected a director and named
chief executive officer.
Bays is 40. A native of Loyall, Ky., he
received a B.S. degree In business and
English at Eastern Kentucky University in
1955. Following two years of service as a
Marine Corps captain, he attended
Indiana University where he earned a
master's In business administration in
1958.
He holds an honorary Doctor of
Commercial Science degree from Union
College in Kentucky and is a director or
Nursing School Workshops
Focus on Distributive Care
Few people today are aware of and
familiar with the changing patterns in the
education of nurses. These changes have
been deemed necessary by both nursing
educators and clinicians who realize they
have a responsibility in meeting the
existing health care needs of our society.
in line with these changing patterns,
the School of Nursing, which revised its
curriculum in 1968, has embarked on a
new on-going series of workshop
conferences. The conferences are being
offered for the benefit of familiarizing
Duke faculty and nursing students and
invited guests from throughout the
country on the changing roles of nurses.
The first conference, which began
yesterday and will continue through
tomorrow, is on "Distributive Nursing
and Mental Health."
Ideas for the workshops grew out of a
two-and-a-half year investigation by the
National Commission for the Study of
Nursing and Nursing Education. The
Commission, supported by the W.K.
Kellog Foundation, the Avalon
Foundation, and by an anonymous
individual donor, conducted
investigations for the purpose of making
recommendations concerning the
improvement of health care delivery to
the American people through an analysis
and improvement of nursing practice and
nursing education.
Among its recommendations, the
Commission urged that nursing roles be
organized into two essentially related but
differing career patterns.
The first, and most familiar pattern, is
episodic. This type of nursing is
characteristically curative and restorative,
generally acute or chronic in nature, and
for the most part carried out in a hospital
or other in-patient setting. It is the usual
career which a young student anticipates
before coming to a baccalaureate nursing
[)rogram.
The second career pattern
recommended by the Commission is
distributive care. This pattern emphasizes
those aspects of nursing practice that are
designed for health maintenance and
disease prevention, generally continuous
(long-life) in nature, seldom acute, and
takes place primarily in community, or
emergent institutional settings.
According to recent studies, today
almost two out of three nurses are
engaged in hospital-based nursing and the
remainder are spread thinly in all other
areas of practice. Investigators agree that
if health care needs are to be met, nurses
must readjust the organization of nursing
roles, increasingly emphasizing
distributive practice as a means of
meeting professional responsibility.
In an effort to support distributive
practice, faculty at the School of Nursing
decided in 1971 to introduce a new
required senior level course in distributive
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trustee of a number of corporations,
educational institutions and religious
organizations.
Brian, 31, is a native of Raleigh and
received his medical education at Duke,
graduating in the class of 1966. As a
member of the governor's cabinet in
California since May of 1972, he has been
responsible for directing policy and
programs in six state departments with
45,000 employes and budgets totaling
$6.6 billion.
When appointed to the post he held
previously, director of the Department of
Health Care Services, Brian was 27 and
the youngest state department director In
California history. He recently was
appointed by the President to the
national Health Industry Advisory
Committee.
Brian served a surgical internship at
the Stanford University Medical Center
following graduation from Duke. He
currently holds medical appointments at
the University of Southern California, the
University of California at Davis and the
Sacramento Medical Center.
During service as a battalion flight
surgeon in Vietnam, Brian was awarded
the Silver Star,, the Bronze Star and the
Air Medical with"V" device for bravery
under fire.
Kempe, 51, was chairman of pediatrics
at the University of Colorado from 1956
until earlier this year. He continues as a
professor in the department.
A native of Breslau, Germany, he
earned his A,B. degree at the University
of California at Berkeley in 1942 and his
M.D. at the University of California in
San Francisco in 1945. Following a
pediatrics internship he was Fleischner
Fund Fellow at Children's Hospital in San
Francisco and did postgraduate study in
virology in San Francisco and
Washington, D.C.
Kempe was an assistant in pediatrics at
Yale for a year before going to the
University of California in 1949. For a
year in 1955 he was Fulbright Professor
of Pediatrics and Virology at Instituto
Superiore de Sanitas in Rome and in
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Employes’ Day Set for Sept. 22
Like to watch a football game this weekend and do something with the kids at
the same time? Well, what about this for a change of pace?—
University President Terry Sanford has designated tomorrow, Saturday, Sept.
22, as Employes' Day at Wallace Wade Stadium.
When the Blue Devils take on the Huskies of Washington University in what
promises to be an exciting afternoon of football action, Duke employes will be
given the opportunity to attend the game at special reduced rates.
Adult tickets will cost $3. each, and children of employes will be admitted free
when accompanied by at least one parent.
Sanford expressed his personal appreciation to each employe of the Duke
community and said it gave him great pleasure to dedicate the game to those who
have given so much of themselves in making the university what it is today.
Herb Aikens, director of employe relations, said Duke employes can also receive
discount coupons for Carowinds, an amusement park located on the North
Carolina South Carolina border near Charlotte. Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., and
Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
For additional infonnation concerning Employes' Day and ticket sales, contact
the Athletic Department at ext. 3212 or Employe Relations at ext. 6513.
KARL D. BAYS
DR. EARL W. BRIAN
DR. C. HENRY KEMPE
SIGMA THETA TAU MEETING
The Beta Epsl'on Chapter of Sigma
Theta Tau (naiional honor society for
nurses) will meet on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at
7:30 p.m. in the Ann Jacobansky
Auditorium, School of Nursing. Members
from other chapters are invited to attend.