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PAGE 6 THE GRYPHON FEBRUARY 27, 1974 Seated above are three RMSH student teachers. Edgecombe Tech Offers New Medical Courses RMSH Privileged To Have Four Student Teachers “By September, we will have five courses of study which will involve personnel in health care,” said Carolyn Barbe, Director of Allied Meidcal Programs at Edgecombe Technical In stitute, when recently com menting on the various ETI medical courses. Edgecombe Tech now offers a Practical Nurse Education, a Nurses’ Assistant, Radiologic Technology, Medical Secretarial, and an Operating Room Technician’s course. Students are selected to participate in the X-Ray Technology, Practical Nur sing, Operating Room Technician, and Nursing Assistant programs on the basis of aptitude tests, high school records and personal interviews. Both men and women are accepted in all programs. OPERATING ROOM TECHNICIAN “The new course for the Operating Room Technician provides the necessary in struction in the basic sciences, including microbiology, anatomy and physiology, with an emphasis on principles of surgical nursing,” Mrs. Barbe explained. “The individual com pleting this course,” she added, “will be prepared to help the surgeon in the operating room. There will be a clear understanding of aseptic principles and their applications to patient care.” The operating room technicians course is a nine- months course and will prepare the students for their A.O.R.T. Certifying Examination. PRACTICAL NURSING Mrs. Barbe also works closely with instructors Lou Everett and Elsie Crisp in making available a one-year Practical Nursing program at Edgecombe Tech. A diploma is awarded upon successful completion of this curriculum and the student is eligible to take the State Board of Nursing Examination for Licensed Practical Nurse. Linda Herndon, one of the ETI students graduate last August from the LPN program, plans now to find employment as a private doctor’s nurse. “This is the program to be in^ the Macclesfield resident said. “I’ve enjoyed it from the standpoint of nursing, and as a mother. I’ve certainly found it helpful.” NURSES’ ASSISTANT CURRICULUM The Nurses’ Assistant Curriculum is another medical program offered by Edgecombe Tech. Classroom teaching, according to in structor Jo Ann Tharrington, is centered around modern concepts of health, functional relationships within the hospital, effective in terpersonal relations, and nursing procedure related to daily needs of patients and to common therapeutic measure. Clinical experience provides the opportunity for applying classroom learning to practice in the hospital setting. A certificate is awarded upon completion of the three months of study. RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY Students completing the Radiologic Technology program receive an Associate in Applied Science Degree, and will be eligible to take the national examination for Radiologic Technologist. This program emphasizes three main areas of study; diagnostic radiology involving the taking of X-Rays of sick of injured persons; therapeutic radiography involving radiation treatment of diseased areas and nuclear medicine involving the use of radioisotopes to treat disease. The curriculum provides both classroom theory and practical on-the-job training. “We’re assigned to a different hospital area each week,” said Kenneth Haynes, one of the students currently enrolled in the program. “The study is interesting because each week it involves something different.” Haynes has now com pleted his first year of training and will receive his degree in May of 1974. Mr. Gurney Mizell, R.T., is the director of the Radiologic Technology program. Mr. Mizell is a member of the North Carolina Community Colleges Curriculum Advisory Com munity for Radiologic Technology. Under his direction ^e program has been approved by the American Medical Association. “Edgecombe Tech has been instrumental in making a number of needed medical programs available to students,” said Mr. Lewis Ridgeway, the hospital ad ministrator. “Through these programs qualified personnel will be available for the care of patients in our hospital and in other Eastern Carolina hospitals.” Persons interested in learning more about the various medical programs offered by Edgecombe Technical Institute may call the Rocky Mount ETI Campus at 442-8027 or the Tarboro ETI Campus at 823-5166. Rocky Mount Senior High is privileged to have four student teacher for the second semester from Wesleyan College. There are two student teachers which are majoring in English, one in Biology and one in History. Miss Martha Hemingway, under the guidance of Mrs. Williams, is majoring in English. You may remember seeing her last spring here at Senior High serving as a Teacher’s Aide under the direction of Mrs. Williams for her May Term at Wesleyan, and later on in the fall a contestant in the Miss Rocky Mount pageant. Her hobbies are dancing, sewing, girl’s sports, and antique collecting. She is engaged to Hilton J. Martin Jr., a history student teacher at Northern Nash. They plan to get married July 20 and live and teach in Northern Virginia. Miss Hemingway is from Rich mond, Virginia. She says that our school system is very different from her high school years, and mainly the dress codes are different where as the girls were not allowed to wear long pants to school. Miss Verna Wentz, teaching with Mrs. Bass, is also majoring in English. She is from Murfreesboro, N.C., and enjoys flying, camping, and embroidering. Miss Wentz is the assistant Resident Counselor of her dorm and postal clerk at Wesleyan. Her future plans are to go to Outer Banks, N.C. to teach. When asked about Senior High she said it was the best school she has ever taught in. Thirdly, Mr. Mason Gamage, student teaching under Mrs. Tripp, is majoring in Biology. He is from Petersburg, Va., and enjoys camping, hiking, swimming, sailing and traveling. His plans after graduation are to teach in Virginia, or to attend graduate school at Old Dominion University in Virginia. When asked about his feelings towards Senior High he stated that he thought the atmosphere was very friendly, and everyone seems to have a lot of school spirit. Last, but not least, Mr. Wayne Bishop, a history major is teaching with Mrs. Hyson. Mr. Bishop is married and has one little boy. Outside of teaching, he finds time to surf, play soccer, and work on antique cars. He was graduated from Senior High in 1968, and says that we have more electives to choose from then when he was going to school here. He also said that the facilities are much better also. Now that all of you have gained a bit of information about our student teachers, take time to go by and welcome them. Try to make them feel a part of our school. Your j^enior year is a time for planning Air Force Delayed Enlistment is one of the best plans. It’s a program that guarantees your Air Force career interest before you graduate. You keep going to school and enjoying your senior year. After graduation, your Air Force job and some of the finest technical training in the world is ready. That’s Delayed Enlistment. Find out about it now. Contact TSGT. BILLY BENNETT 201 Dominick Street Rocky Mount 442-2718 Fmd uourself in the United Stotes Air Force
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