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Friday, November 14, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Nursing program expands
By DIANE M. WILSON
KANSAS CITY, Kan—The University of Kansas School of Nursing is under great pressure to expand its graduate program, because of a new regulation requiring all nurses to obtain a master's degree, said Doris Geitzgay, dean of the nursing school.
The nursing school at the KU Medical Center has the only graduate school of nursing in Arkansas.
The Kansas Legislature last spring approved the new rules and regulations of the State Board of Nursing giving the board authority to regulate the new master's requirement.
Margery Duffey, associate dean of the School of Nursing and director of the graduate program, said the new regulation required all teachers of nursing to either have a master's degree or be working on a master's degree. She said she just over a year to expand its graduate program to serve at least 120 more than its present 83 students. Duffey said.
Geigetz said that almost all nursing teachers in Western Kansas had only bachelors degrees. Teachers at the School of Nursing have either master's or doctor's degrees.
Duffey said that as soon as the new regulation was approved, the Board of Regents received requests for graduate nursing classes in Western Kansas. She said about 120 persons requested graduate education near their homes.
Next spring the first graduate nursing outreach course, Contemporary Issues in Nursing, will be taught by Hester Thurston, professor of nursing at the Med Center, who will travel to Garden City every other week, visit the Friedman Fridley School and Saturday mornings, Geltay said.
The course will deal with ethics, health legislation, funding for nursing research, the changing role of nurses and the role of nurse practitioners, she said.
Duffey would the course taught in Western Kansas would be the same as, or equivalent to, those in the South.
By next summer the first students will be brought from Western Kansas to the Med Center for classes, if all goes well, she said, since outreach means bringing students in to study as well as sending faculty out to teach.
The success of the outreach program depends on money, Getitgey said. Money to begin the program is coming primarily from the Mid Center and the outreach program of the Med Center, she said.
Duffey said she hoped to get federal funding by next July 1, when the new fiscal year begins, for traineeships, or stipends to students.
The nursing outreach program must deal with several unique problems. First, all the students are teaching full time so the school is unable to take full-time school hours or take off for a year to study. Geltig said.
Second, the school has too few graduate faculty. There are now 10, including Dean Getgiet, for 83 students. Getgiet said she would teach an extra elective course next spring to enable Thurston to teach in Garden City.
Third, although finding nursing teachers with doctores isn't impossible, Geltguy
said, it is a problem, because the terminal degree in nursing has traditionally been the
Fourth, faculty members can't be recruited yet, she said, because she needs funding before she can approach people to offer them jobs. Nevertheless, she said she must actively interview four doctors of nursing to replace faculty members who had left.
Because this is the first graduate nursing outreach program in the nation, Gelgey warned, "Expect you to make mistakes." She said they would be trying things out, testing ways to conduct classes and trying different meeting places.
She said the reason KU was taking the lead in graduate outreach program was her strong personal interest in them. She came to KU from the University of Washington in where, she did some outreach teaching in Tacoma, Wash., and Portland, Ore.
The graduate school of nursing has experienced phenomenal growth recently, according to Barbara Clancy, associate professor of pediatrics at the department of maternal health nursing.
"Three years ago the graduate program and 15 students; now there are 83," she said. "It was a little difficult."
Clancy said the growth of the graduate program was due to more than the new nursing regulation. She said that more nurses were becoming expert clinicians and that leadership in nursing now required at least a master's degree.
Ggetley said that some hospitals were hiring only nurses with master's degrees, because of the tremendous knowledge required for effective patient care.
"It scares me at times to see people who don't have the knowledge of physiology,
The increased knowledge and need for expertise in nursing has led to more doctoral programs for nurses being established, Geitgte said.
psychology and pathology necessary to do an effective nursing job, taking care of sick
She said she hadn't talked about a doctorate program at the KU School of Nursing-yet. The establishment of a doctorate program should be on the drawing board in a couple of years and should be ready to start in five to seven years, she said.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
IN THE CAUSE OF ZIONISM
Dear Friends,
It is with deep anguish that the members of the Jewish Community of Lawrence learned of the approval of a resolution in the General Assembly of the United Nations which equated Zionism with racism. Only persons who were born in modern or contemporary lands could be known of nothing ancient or modern history could contemplate such a thought; only persons unamused with the legacy of the Bible could agree to such a proposition; and only persons filled with wishing hitherto and malice could promulgate such a resolution. That the United Nations, once the shining hope for peace and constructive causes, could be used to validate such ignorance and hatred is an event that is at once full of address and disgust.
The Jewish people are one of the oldest nations on this earth. It had a homeland and the homeland was conquered. The Jewish people have been dispersed in exile for over two thousand years. Our history during this period is a stage of being hunted, persecuted and murdered. It is also a history of noble survival against this modernization. We have never known the predecessors of human life were never lost. Where human dignity and civil rights were recognized the Jewish people flourished. In each age, in each country, as conditions of freedom changed to conditions of tyranny the Jewish people could bear the brunt of brutality. In these times we stood as one with the non-Jews who were not our own and were not our conclusion. Too often our sufferings were more than our number and more than our equal share. Wherever and whenever human liberties and religious freedom were stamped out we were stamped upon.
During the last part of the 19th century the movement that became known as Zionism was one of a number of movements that were inspired by religious liberation. Men and women in unacceptable honor, Jews and non-Jews dedicated to the ideals of liberty and self-determination in the quest for justice, for Zionism, for the return of nationhood to the Jewish people. In many ways these ideals are one with the dearest ideals of the United States and of human dignity. Could this be
When the horrors of the concentration camps and the poison of Nazi anti-semitism more than proved the need for the Jewish people to regain their homeland so that never again could be we summaryly declared as per the treaty, the British government arranged for us to have that homeland, recognizing too the claim of the Arab inhabitants of our Palestine. In a partition action not unlike the many known to this world before and since, two states were declared to exist: one as a homeland for the Jewish people, one as an additional homeland for Arabs. The Arab nations selected one side with new borders, however precarious its existence. The Arab nations elected not to accept the partition and elected the Jewish people to have a physical nationhood. To deny the Jewish people a physical nationhood is anti-semitism in the fullest sense of the term for it is to put the Jewish people in continual potential for existence.
The recent history of the struggle of the Jewish people to protect and defend their homeland is familiar to anyone who reads the newspaper or watches television. Zionism represents the deepest commitment to the highest ideals of all people for dignity and freedom. To call Zionism racism is a twist the meaning of words and to argue for independence after the end of the Second World War only Zionism has free and democratic actions; only the first press only Zionistic Israel protects free speech and the right of dissent for all its citizens—the Jews as well as the Arabs who choose to live in Israel. This is racism?
We Jews who live with you as citizens of this community and who know you as friends and acquaintances, and you, the past loss of any sense of history, justice, and reason, to stand with us against the mockery and denouncement of anti-Semitism, we call ourselves Zionists, anti-Semitism has been institutionally validated. There are many of us who never thought that once again in our lifetimes we would see anti-Semitism receive such official sanctions. We ask Israel to take action against anti-Semitism, and we call for an action be public, known, and effective. When the Jews cried out in Europe thirty and forty years ago many good men and women supported them but they did so silently and without taking action. We know the terrible injustice that existed in the past and we want to end it now. A woman becomes an adult member of the community at the age of 13. In our heredity we learn that from the age of 13, until we die, we have obligations to pursue (jury, to create good, and to fight tyranny). The fruits of freedom and justice accue only to those who actively accept their obligations. It is for this reason that we know that we must have a letter to each—and every one of us aware of the burden of our obligations and the liberation of our spirits.
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