i ntcKcom 6ukc univeusity mc6icM ccnteit VOLUME 22, NUMBER 32 AUGUST 22,1975 DURHAM, NORTH CAROUNA A TURTLE, A POTATO ORAN OMEN?—Barry Cooksey, a teller in the hospital brarKh of Wachovia Bank, and his father-in-law David Wrenn through they'd found a turtle for a few seconds last week while digging up vegetables in their seven acre Apex, N.C., garden. It turned out that the turtle was really a potato, complete with humpback, four legs, tail, navel, head, two eyes, nose and mouth. The "poturtle" caused quite a stir in the bank the day when Cooksey brought it from home to show his fellow employees. Most people thought the resemblance was both remarkable and humorous, but one older woman claimed the potato was an "omen telling of hard times to come." (Photo by David Williamson) Mcllvane Named New This month, the hospital welcomed Betty Mcllvane as director of its new Department of Organizational Development. A native of Long Island, N.Y., Ms. Mcllvane has spent the past 20 years in Washington, D.C., designing educational training systems for a District of Columbia company and developing training programs for medical manpower in the U.S. Navy. She has also conducted applied research on various manpower problems and issues in complex urban settings. Organizational development will serve as a resource to the hospital in providing techniques and processes for enabling people to provide quality patient care more effectively and satisfactorily. She remarked that, “an example of a resource could be analyzing a job in terms of what people do, determining what needs to be done and planning the means for achieving the desired outcome. The planning could be training or could involve other activities. The department services will be defined in relation to the hospital's need to provide exemplary patient care practices and responsive support systems. “Organizational development is not a new concept, but its application to the health care field is relatively new," she noted. “It is a systematic means for helping people identify human and job performance problems and develop solutions. “For a significant portion of the next year," she said, “we will be Uxjking at what is going on. We will work with groups and departments to determine how they interact and develop strategies for designing and developing programs where there is a need for management, supervisory, or skill training. As we move along we will also be looking at job performance needs and organizational requirements of the new hospital." Ms. Mcllvane said the Department % K ,. 4 BETTY McILVANE Cancer Center Will Take Detection Tests to Industry KANNAPOLIS — A free cancer Every employee screened will be screening program begins Monday sent a letter with the results of the (Aug. 25) for employees of Cannon tests. If additional tests are needed. Mills Plant 4 here. employees will attend an hour-long The program was announced their personal doctors, today by Cannon and Duke’s Cannon Mills will pay for all Pap Comprehensive Cancer Center. It smears ($4 each), as well as for urine marks the first time an industry has and rectal cancer test strips, teamed up with the Cancer Center to All screening tests will be done in bring cancer detection services to the plant infirmary. The program people where they work. will run around the clock — even Men 35 and older will be invited to during the midnight shift. Employees undergo painless tests for prostate will be given time off to take part, and rectal cancer. The tests take according to Cannon Mills Medical about one minute. Smokers will be Director Dr. R.S. Stephens, checked for oral cancer; men 45 and Doing the screening will be a older who smoke will be given a chest doctor and a nurse from the Cancer X-ray for lung cancer. Center, and nurses from the plant Women 20 and older will be invited infirmary. The Duke physician. Dr. to have a Pap smear taken. This is a Siegfried Heyden, said the program painless test for cancer of the womb will be held in the plant to make and cervix. Examinations for breast participation as easy as possible for cancer and rectal cancer will also be employees. offered to women 35 and older. “It’s much more convenient to Men and women screened will be conduct a program like this at the asked to bring in urine samples; place of work,” he said, “rather than nurses will check these for signs of ask workers to come to the doctor.’’ bladder cancer and diabetes. Special The Cabarrus County Medical plastic containers will be given out by Society voted unanimously to the infirmary in which to bring the support the effort, he said, samples. Heyden, director of the Cancer Finally, all who participate will Control Program here, won an award have their blood pressure measured. from the German Medical Society for setting up similar screening plans in . . I Switzerland. / l screening team there I I examined 1,900 women in eight I department stores for breast cancer, of Organizational Development will Three cancers were found, interact with people based on a need Pre-cancerous conditions were found to define what a person does, should in seven women, be doing and how the outcome affects As part of the program at Cannon, patient care. employes will attend an hour-long “People receive a greater educational session. Women will satisfaction by performing a job meet separately from men. All who competently and thus providing attend will learn how the screening better quality patient care," she said. tests help detect cancer. Women will “Our function will be to guide find out how to do breast hospital employees in defining job self-examination; men will have a competencies and in achieving briefing on prostate cancer. Twenty appropriate skills, knowledges and minutes will be set aside for questions attitudes through training. “We will and answers. be directing some ‘self-looking' which Those who want to sign up for the we hope will help people to clarify tests can do so at the end of the their responsibilities and to specify session. the help needed to perform their job Cannon Mills was chosen as the competently and satisfactorily. Our screening site, Heyden said, because relationship with hospital people is of “its openness to medical going to require a commitment on programs.” The Plan 4 program is a both sides," she said. “There will be trial run, he said. If it is successful, it mutual responsibility for all may be expanded into other Cannon involved." Plants and to other industries. July Safety Scoreboard Total Number of Employee Accidents 69 Total Number of Days Lost 61 Accidents Causing Lost Time 15 Total Number of Needle Punctures 21 Total Number of First Aid Cases 32 In the continuing safety contest between the Dietetics and Environmental Services departments. Dietetics retained the plaque again this month with fewer accidents. In July, Environmental Services reported five accidents while Dietetics reported only four.

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