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NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY OF HEALTH DIGITAL COLLECTION North Carolina League for Nursing News Volume 3 (1955) DOCUMENT NO. NCHH-40-003 || http://hsl.lib.unc.edu/specialcollections/nchealthhistory || This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). For more information about the collection, or to search other volumes, please visit: || http://hsl.lib.unc.edu/specialcollections/nchealthhistory || Practical Nurse Program. An invitation has been Mrs. Mary King Bailey, Chief of the Public Health extended by the NCLN to the NC State Association of Nursing Section of the Kaleigh area, State Board of Practical Nurses to co-sponsor a state-wide program in the Health, has been married recently. Her name is now Mrs. interest of the needs of practical nurses as they relate to Mary King Kneedler. Best wishes, Mrs. Kneedler. better health care in our state. Bulletins and press releases on the details of the various parts of this energetic 1954-55 program will be forthcoming as local arangements committees complete their plans. NATIONAL NURSE WEEK is to be October 11-16, • Increased membership is the only way the NCLN can 1954. The NLN and Committee on Careers, Am. Nurses' bring more and varied programs to you. NOW is the Ass'n, Am. Hospital Ass'n, Am. Medical Ass'n, Am. time to join ranks and promote these programs as a par National Red Cross, Am. Public Health Ass'n, Catholic ticipating member! Hospital Ass'n, Nat. Student Nurse Ass'n, Protestant Hospital Ass'n, U. S. Dept. of Defense, U. S. Dept. of DID YOU KNOW? Health, Education and. Welfare, and the Veterans Admin Tabulations are being completed on the case-finding istration, are all sponsoring the national observance of studies for rheumatic heart disease made in North Caro National Nurse Week. Headquarters for the week will lina during the past school year, under the auspices of be at 2 Park Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. the Rheumatic Fever Committee of the North Carolina Heart Association. Figures are not yet complete, but indi cate that rheumatic heart disease is far more prevalent in the State than has previously been realized and ap parently more prevalent in the Western Piedmont and Mountain Counties than in the remainder of North Many of the participants in the Institute on Problems Carolina. In fact, the rates appear to be sufficiently high in Tuberculosis Control held in Chapel Hill August 29- to suggest the desirability of special programs of pre Sept. 1 were loud in their praise of interesting and inform vention and control. A final report on the studies will ative program. Congrats are in order to those who worked be made available shortly. so hard to put it on. N. C. LEAGUE FOR NURSING BOX 339 CHAPEL HILL. N. C. •J_J: news Vol. 3, No. 1 January, 1955 President Ruth M. Boyles, R.N. First Vice-President Lucy Lee Knox Second Vice-President Mrs. Frances S. McConnell Secretary Marie J. Showalter, R.N. Treasurer C. Margaret Johnson, R.N. DIRECTORS George P. Harris Mrs. Willetta S. Jones, R.N. A. Sue Kerley, R.N. C. Scott Venable 11 Chairman. Division of Nursing Services Margaret M. Cheek, R.N. Chairman, Division of Nursing Education Vivian M. Culver, R.N. Public Relations Committee Editorial Staff Howard E. Williams, Chairman Lucy Boylan, R.N. Laura S. Breese, R.N. Lucy Massey, R.N. Mrs. Frances S. McConnell Fred A. Whitaker Elizabeth Winstead, R.N. THIS is the time for all those persons who are pro Everything points to the possibility of a great year viders and consumers of health services to re-dedicate their ahead. We have excellent leadership nationally, statewise, goals for the new year. What better resolution could we and locally; programs projected for 1955 have been care make than to resolve to make 1955 a banner year for fully planned and will be tremendously interesting as well nursing progress throughout the width and breadth of the as educational; the Committee on Coordination of Cur riculum Study and Development has met and is setting its State. By so doing, Ave would be altruistic and selfish at goals for wide cooperative achievements; and all reports one and the same time : altruistic, because by supporting indicate that this year is to be a generally prosperous one. improved nursing service and education we help our fami Now, if every nurse would only join in the effort to lies, friends, and community; selfish, because few if any of make nursing the greatest social force it can be, and if us leave this old orb without having need for nursing care health administrators would take a most active part in this at one time or another. The more we do today to insure desirable aim as well as giving full encouragement to their its availability when we need it, the easier it will be for staff members to actively participate, then total, high us to receive excellent nursing care when the time comes quality nursing care would be a universal reality, not some for us to submit ourselves to it. thing that is too frequently mouthed rather than practiced. SOUTHERN REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF procedure. However, the Committee plans on sending a STATE LEAGUES FOR NURSING IS HELD consultant to all temporarily accredited and non-accredited schools to determine how they can improve. It is hoped Three members of the NCLN attended the Southern that the schools will be able to meet accreditation require Regional Conference of State Leagues for Nursing, held ments by the end of the three-year period. Also, it is in Atlanta December 13 and 14, 1954, C. Margaret Johnson, hoped that each state will set up a curriculum committee Marie Showalter, and Howard E. Williams. The Kellogg to have liaison with the national committee. Foundation paid the expenses of two members from each There was a short discussion of the Nursing Aides state of the region, which indicates to us the importance Training program. Representatives from different states that is attached to the activities of the NLN. told how their states had tackled this worthwhile program. The Conference was under the chairmanship of Miss For example, in one city of West Virginia, they pooled Marion W. Sheahan, Associate General Director and Di the resources of five hospitals to send one person to Pennsyl rector, Division of Nursing Services, NLN. Miss Sheahan vania for instruction. In most states, Vocational Edu kept the entire meeting informal, and allowed everyone cation groups are assisting with the program. It was plenty of opportunity to speak his mind. The first day emphasized that this is not a new group that will be taught, was largely devoted to organizational problems and to the nor are they to be licensed. The program is decidedly in nursing education on the collegiate level that has been line with our general aim of giving top-notch nursing care developed in this region through the Southern Regional to patients. Board of Higher Education and the Southern Conference Among the Headquarters persons that assisted with the of State Leagues. A survey showed that TEACHERS meeting was Anna Fillmore, General Director. There AND SUPERVISORS ARE THE MOST NEEDED were eight in all, and they proved very capable in answer COMMODITY at the present time. The following uni ing questions to problems posed by representatives. versities participated in a cooperative way to give the A final piece of business was the discussion of regional broadest kind of nursing education possible with the edu divisions for the NLN. A mimeographed map depicting cational facilities presently available: (1) Emory Uni the tentative proposed regions was given each participant. versity, (2) Vanderbilt University, (3) University of So many national organizations have found it necessary to Alabama, (4) University of Maryland, (5) University of have regional structure in order to effectively carry on the North Carolina, and (6) University of Texas. business that it is not surprising that we feel the same. Money was provided by the Commonwealth Fund, Kel The AHA, AM A, APHA, ARC, and U. S. Health, Edu logg Foundation, the SRBHE, and the six universities for cation and Welfare Department are some of the organi the support of 10 fellowships in each of the participating zations having regional organizations. universities. A pamphlet will be published soon explaining the fellowships, and will be sent to all institutions that DOES N. C. HAVE A NEED TO PARTICIPATE IN might be interested in the programs, according to plans. Those desiring more information about the program may THE NURSING AIDE TRAINING PROGRAM? write to Mr. William J. McLaughlin, Southern Regional The Nursing Aide Training Project is a program Board of Higher Education, 830 West Peachtree Street, sponsored by the American Hospital Association, the U. S. N. W., Atlanta, Ga. Also, the booklet, League Exchange Public Health Service, and the National League for Nurs List No. 4 gives rather complete information and is avail ing.