News Scrapbook 1984

Nurse: New doctorate heralds changes in the medical field Continued from B-1 /.Jq¥ "I have come to know that there is ulty members will be needed by 1988, according to Palmer.

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Daily Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

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a huge body of knowledge out there that can be collected mto a science that answers those questions today, and I was looking for a doctoral pro- gram, even if it meant gomg to San Francisco or other parts of the coun- try," she said. t present there are 1.67 million nurses in the United States and only .15 percent hold a doctoral degree. Almost 80 percent of the 12,245 nursing faculty in the nation lack the doctoral degree that is generally considered a necessity for teaching in other disciplines, and a survey has shown that in addition to these, an additional 3,489 nursing doctoral fac-

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rl amng up (and) bemg generally ef- fici nt," as one USO faculty member xpr d it. "But the truth is that there has n a major change in the approach to medicine and h alth in the past 25 y ar , and nursing is playing a major part m that change," said Mary Ann Hautman, an assi 'lant professor in the nur mg chool. "For centuries, medicine has con- centrated on the physiological nature of 1ckn only. Medicine and physi- cians have trealed cancer or the heart attack. They have not realized that 1t i a person that has cancer and a person that has the heart al- t ck. In complete med1cme you have to treat the person as well ru; the 1ckn . "Furthermore, that person has a f m1ly and other human contacts, nd the impact of the physical illness on all those relations is all a part of t c general condition of stekness that mu t be treated," she said ' Many people go to hospital and get th physical treatment for their 1 kn - a heart attack or whatever 11 might be but leave utterly confw ed as to what they should do n xt, how th y should conduct them- elves right then and for the rest of their lives." said Palmer "How, for example, does a family d ·11 with the udden infant death yndrome, dru and alcohol abu e w1thm the family, the prob! ms of the aged and the handicapped, or the increased str s that strain family and marital relations' "This 1 JU t one branch of the sci- ence of nur mg, and the nurse might be working with a relatively new 1m- m1 rant mto the country one mmute, a construction worker the next and a bu in ss executive half an hour later," said Palmer. Such complex demands go far be- yond octal work and domg the "nat- ural thmg · of offering comfort and good cheer." There is a body of knowledge and accumulated experi- nce that can now be used to guide nur beyond doing the obvious and teach them to do what is known to be the best and most effective. That is the growing c1ence of nursing to be reflected m the new USO program. 'ursing ha become the "science of wellness· the science of good health which encompasses every- thing from nutrition, psychology, phr.;iology and social work, to the host of new approaches to and treat- ments for physical lllnesse ," said Palmer. "We know that it IS difficult for the public to accept nurses as 'profes- . s1onals' rn the same sense that they see doctors, but the fact h that we are," ·aid Hautman. "Often, the only difference is that in speaking to a patient we use lan- guage that is understandable to the pattent while the physician uses long words that are unintelligible but very impressive," she said Diane Goldberger holds a master's degree in nursing and is a part time faculty member in the nursing pro- gram at San Diego State Umversity, but she will become a student in the new USO nursing doctorate program. "Students ask questions (as to) why we do things in a certain way. Even today we finish up with the lame an- swer that weiteach that way because that IS the way we were taught our- selves," she said.

/ /U.S. Supreme Co; Justice John Paul Steveru;rr}j in town Oct. 18 to s~lo "Judicial Restraint" at the U~~~e~~i~x.gf San Qi g_o hool of Law. His 7 p.m. sp ech at the Douglas F Man- ch .. •t er Executive Conference Center will inaugurate the , athanie l Nathanson Memorial (Continued on Pa· 12A) (Continued fro~age 4AJ Lecture Series, n · nor of the lnte professor w at Nor- thwe tern University School Law. ---= /

The first class will have 35 to 40 students in the summer of 1985. Stu- dents will need 54 post-master's units and a dissertation, but the courses are designed to meet the needs of nurses who are working full-time and those who can attend full-time classes. And all students must already hold a master's degree-nursing certainly has come a long way since the lady with the lamp gathered her first small group of women volunteers to aid the suffering of victims of the Crimean War 150 years ago.

Irene Palmer

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Daily Transcript (Cir. D. 7,000)

San Diego, CA [San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,324) (Cir. S. 339,788)

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Jlll.ai • P. C. 8 fat 1888 YT e doctor may re ny' be a nurse ByMichael Scott-BGtf\?iafr Writer When someone calls for Dr. Jo m the operating room of tomorro\l s hospital, it might as likely be the nurse who responds as the physician. Nursing ha come a long way since Florence Nightin- gale walked the wards dispensing comfort and kindn~, so far in fact that a new degree-a Doctor of Nursmg Science-is being offered at the University of §an Diego. The degree is the only such doctorate offered at a private university west of the Mississippi and onl~ the second one in California. The other is UC San FranctSCo. "For decades, nursmg has been a mixture of intuition and doing what others had done before just because th~t was the way it had always been done. But today there IS a tremendous body of knowledge behmd what has be- come the science of nursing," said Irene Palmer, dean of the Philip Y. Hahn School of Nursing at USO. Experienced nurses are frustrated by, but accept the popular public 1mage, of a nurse as bemg a person who gives "shots" and "generally fqllows doctors around, See NURSE on Ppge 8-7

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/ 1..,aw liriefs _ USD~~hool Gets $400,000 In Grants 8-D... Law School h • as received grants totaling $400 000 ,. fi • . , ,or 1ve pr~Jects: !~eluding $189,500 for the university s Center for Pub!' I erest Law h . ic n- Cali'" . w ich monitors ,orn1a regu lat . Dean ory agencies. Sheldon Krantz says it is t he largest amount of grant mon .e_ver received by the school t ey time. a one /

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La Jolla attorney Connie Shaner will address the anatomy of per- sonal injury m her seminar Mon• day Oct. 15 aLlQ...uD/ Shaner, w o earned her law degree at the University of San Diego in 1980 aha was admitl:ed to the California state bar associa- tion the same year, will discuss many different kinds of personal injury cases, including autombile accidents, slip and fall incidents, actions against a public entity and actions involving a drunk driver. She will also explain the dam- ages that are recoverable - lost wages, medical expenses and compensation for pain and suffer- ing.

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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.} Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454) t,;T

LawBriefs . USDLawSchool (}e~ $400,000 In Grant/ f USD Law School baa received electect t.o the Board wu Superi~ i granta totaling $400,000 for five Court Judge Ben Hamrick while j projects, including $189,500 (or the Superior Court Judge Raul : university's Center for Public In- Rosado will be stepping down. : ·terest Law which monitor • • • • 1 California regulatory agencies. The Lawyen Club's annual wine j Dean Sheldon Krantz says it is and cheese reception will be held a ·the largest amount of grant money Oct. 19 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the i e:er received by the school at one home of Superior Coun Judge : trme. Sheridan Reed. 1 . • .. • • •• j D Atty. Tho1Da8 E. Miller will : eputy District Atty. Lisa : Guy-Schall has been elected first d.i8CUS8 "Corroeion and the Law" •: .·_·vice president o( the San Diego when he addresses the National Association of Corrosion Engineers ----..,....,

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/VSD students help out with sehold chores 1, ' 'l . Are there some rav,n and muscle

Jobs at your home that need to be done? Ones you can't find the energy to do? ~gain this year, students at the !-Jruvers1tL.Q_r San Diego are showmg _they have a Jot to give and are offermg to help seniors with their h?~sew?rk. The students will be pro- v1dmg m-home help for seniors on ~ov. l 7 and 18. They wlll do such odd Jobs as change screens rake leaves move furniture .. and°even do wrn~ dows: B,ut Ev~lyn Herrmann, chief of th e city s Semo~ Citizen Service Cen- ter, said they will not do professional carpentry, plumbing or similar higjJ- Iy skdled jobs. "They re not gomg to rebu_1ld a_nyone·s home ' she said The se~v1ce_1s offered annually by the umvers1ty through t e ity center To get on the list, call the center at 236- 5765. The students involved in the proj~t will contatt ) ou to set up an apporntrnent time. Herrmann said that because there has been a heavy demand for the students' (crvices in the past. registration for the in-home help program will close at •he end of October.

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