Union College - Golden Cords Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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and Jolene Tuma were the recipients of the grant for 1966-67. A new car was added to the VW Microbus and two other cars owned by the department to aid in transport- ing students to the clinical laboratory. Advanced physiology and psychol- ogy of aging' were taught for the first time this year. Both team teaching and team assignments were included in the teaching procedure. A team as- signmentf, according to Miss Ruth Haller, chairman of the department, is used to make available to all the students in a course the records and information concerning a patient who has the specific health problems which are presently being studied in classf, Students take turns caring for a pa- tient and observing as their classmates care for the patient. Special events in the field of class- work included the observation of an open heart surgery by pediatrics stu- dents along with many field trips to nearby hospitals, mental health cen- ters, planned parenthood clinics, and the state health department. Hazel Rice Alllfy ABCE Hdfpef Larry Wiggins Robert Downes Elsie Warden and Karen Rochester Marie Neuschaefer Ruth Haller, Department Chairman 55

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Junior nursing student, Jan Nickell, Comforts 0 Pediflffff' Pfliienf- Dr. Kellogg, intern, Bunnie Weisz, before entering the County Health Cen- Betty Garuer, and Dr. Simmons, general ter building. practitioner, pause for a brief conference Future Nurses Take Training In Denver F orty-two junior and senior nursing students spend their school year at Union's extension campus irf Denyer. Porter Memorial Hospital is the scene of most of the future nurses, activities with the students spending eighteen hours a Week caring for patients as a' part of their academic program. This year, as has been the case for the past 13 years, the school of nurs- ing was the recipient of a Mental Health Grant from the United States Public Health Service which provides funds for education and research in the field of Psychiatric Nursing. The grant now totals 528,000 Included in the grant were scholarships for three undergraduate students of 32,650 per year for a period of two years. Bev- erly Christensen, Kathleen Regester, Howard Ellstrom counts the number of drops per minute that are being re- leased by an intravenous apparatus which feeds glucose into a patient who may not receive fluids by mouth following surgery.

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t l i. -I I X ' 5 v i , f , 2 ,L 5 :K l gl i rl Q, z Q E. ,, ' r Q Denver Campus. cun't. Denver campus students organize their own subdivision of the student body, electing not only officers to fill offices in their own ASB segment, but also to lead out in class functions. Leaders on the Denver campus are pictured on this page. They are Ctop row, left to rightj Kathy Regester, ASB president, Cheri Meissner, ASB secretaryg Betty Garver, ASB treas- urer, fmiddle row? Karen Boyle, editor of the Denver campus section of the Golden Cords, ludy Nelson, editor of the Denver campus contributions to the Clock Tower, Beverly Christensen and Carolyn House, editors of the Denver sec- tion of the Peanut Hill Cbottom row, Jo Ann Grosholl, senior class president, Judy Nelson, senior class secretary-treasurer, Terri Harvey, junior class president, and Marlene VanTuyl, junior class secretary- treasurer. 9,7- 2 5. 5 4 3 l 4 ' is