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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 17, 1980
Student nurses face stress, death
By STEVE MAUN Staff Reporter
Most students face making mistakes on the nursing students, a mistake in clinical practice could endanger a life. As a result, a nursing student's life is filled with stress.
Phyllis Thompson, senior class nursing representative at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said, "I think it's more stressful because we are in an adult setting with clinicals and because you have a lot of clinicals and because you in regular classes.
"I AM GIVING a morphear injection and I could give it wrong. A teacher doesn't just give me an F. There are more serious consequences."
Karen Williams, assistant professor of nursing psychology, said the nursing clinicals could be an extremely stressful job. The college's faculty were application of what a nursing student learns.
Barbara Krume, junior class nursing representative at the Med Center, said. "You sit in lecture one day and they tell you nothing then you see it in action the next day."
Williams said, "A nursing student might be a patient of someone's life, or when I join a B clinical, does that mean I'm a B person?" Some students may get to a C on a paper but handle problems.
Nursing students spend between 15 and 20 hours a week working as a floor nurse in various departments, such as pediatrics, medical surgery or psychiatry.
ANOTHER DIFFERENCE between
another kind of campus is that nursing students cannot skip class or clinical because they need to know classroom information to treat patients.
These are traditionally-aged college students who start to deal with a lot of things people their age haven't seen," Williams said.
The nursing students may have to talk to parents of chronically or terminally ill children, she explained. In the psychiatric clinical, they have to deal with abused children, suicides or people who are talking and talking to voices that aren't there.
Krumme said, “When you're working in pediatrics and you have a 5-year-old kid with leukemia, who you may not see the next day, that's stressful. You're supposed
to act so professional. It's tough. Sometimes you go home and cry."
MANY OF THE nursing students go to Wanda for counseling when they are unable to perform their duties on getting the students to ventilate their feelings of sadness on negative feelings
"The pain of the stress is very often the feelings that are caught up inside," she said. "They are competitive individuals. They need them, that they can succeed academically."
Williams tells the students to get some balance back in their lives and to find some
physical exercise or involvement in some organized activity.
However, Thompson said there were no recreational facilities and few activities on campus. The YMCA and the Regents Center have organized recreation programs for students at the Med Center, she said, but they also need to require too much time and transportation.
Living arrangements are different because most students prefer to have one or two roommates rather than living in a residence hall or a sorority. Krumme said.
Williams said despite the additional stress few students leave nursing. She said several students face crisis decisions about whether to stay or not, but most of them stay and work it out.
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Pigeon ...
Houston and Dallas, and orients them after spending the winter months cooped up.
Homing pigeons enjoy a mild population scattered throughout. There are clubs in Topeka and Kansas City, but they are not as numerous as in California, where Benoit
Pigeons cost about $40 a pair, and need no unusual care. In Belgium, where they were introduced in the 1950s, they have a wide following, and betting on pigeon races is common. In California, a man won a pigeon in Las Vegas.
But racing clubs play down the betting angle. No money is involved in the races,
only points. The races range in length from 50 to 650 miles, and the number of races and their distance hinges on one major factor—transportation.
But transportation is no problem once the birds are set free.
THE PRICE of transportation is hurting the racing hobby, and rising gasoline costs are driving up the cost of racing. It now takes 10 minutes to get a seat on Bemil's suit, and that price also is rising.
"It is a puzzle to figure out how they know where to fly to. But they always get home when they land." The wind blows them off course, or they get disoriented," Benoit said, "but they get
Regents confer on energy
Proposed allocations totalling almost $1 million for energy conservation at the University of Kansas will be discussed by the university's meetings its meetings and tomorrow in Topeka.
The money is part of more than $2.5 million allocated to Regents schools for spending on energy-conserving capital programs, and the government appropriated for the Regents by the Kansas Legislature, which deleted $911,000 worth of conservation projects, and the Senate Ways Committee, which intended to give the Regents $1,350,480 left over from Regents schools' utility budgets.
In a list compiled by Roger Corman, Regents facilities officer, allocations totaling $695,000 for the Lawrence campus are listed in the Medical Center are listed for fiscal 1981.
Of this, $277,000 for the Lawrence campus and $100,000 for the Med Center will be spent to install microprocservor control systems. These are computer-controlled
systems that help conserve energy by regulating motor and light switches in buildings during peak electricity-use periods.
The Lawrence campus would receive an annex to the campus building, including insulating steam lines in utility tunnels, insulating the Dyche Hall attic and the Nichols Hall roof and installing utility ducts.
In other KU business, the Regents will consider a change in the fee payment schedule for veterans attending KU on the GI Bill.
The Med Center would receive an additional $230,000 for installing storm windows in Robinson Hall and the Dhelp building, replacing pipe insulation in utility tunnels.
Veterans who receive their educational benefit before enrollment would be eligible for a free enrollment. Those who do not receive these funds would be allowed to pay half their fees before enrollment.
"When I was running for office, I'm a far full year for a term and that's the only problem I have with this bill," he said.
switch was made this fall, senators would lose two months of their terms.
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Borell also said the bill could set a precedent.
"If passed, it could set the dangerous precedent of senators' getting into office and determining the length of their terms," he said.
"My feeling is that if this is a good idea, and I think it is a good idea, wouldn't it behove us to initiate it as soon as possible," Harkness said.
Abbott said he thought the Senate would prevent such practices and favored implementing the bill in November. He was urged by Eric Harkness, pharmacy senator.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the committee
discussed several projects it will research during theSenate term. One major project is the development of a grievance procedure and the development of a uniform add-drop policy.
"We're one of the only schools in this area who doesn't have a uniform add-drop policy." Borelli said.
A major committee project is a diveventure forum on the Kansas University Association's financial holdings in South Africa. The financial forum would center on three possible responses to the diveventure problem: the distribution of guidelines to the Endowment Association's South African companies, the distribution of guidelines to South African employees should be treated.
"It will be a really emotional issue and we've got to be sure that the people you get are really competent," he said. "The more intelligent and the more far right decision we make is better listening to the emotional people—the better we will look in his administration's eyes."
Schnacke warned that the forum should avoid speakers with emotional pleas.
Borelli and co-chairman Jeff Freeman told the committee it also would research parking and traffic ticket fees and voter apportionment for student elections.
At the close of the meeting, Schackne
reminded the committee that it would revise
the Senate Rules and Regulations. The
Rules and Regulations are guidelines to
the Senate's operations. Schackne said he
would be more responsive rather than make major policy changes.
"The idea is not to change it for substance, rather for clarity or conciseness," he said.
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The University Kansas Student Awards Committee is accepting nominations for two awards annually awarded to graduating seniors. These awards are the Agnes Wright Strickland Award and the Class of 1913 Award.
The Agnes Wright Strickland Award was established in memory of Agnes Wright Strickland, a member of the class of 1887. The award is given annually to a graduating senior man and graduating senior woman in recognition of a good academic record, demonstrated leadership in matters of all University concern, respect among fellow students and indications of future dedication to service to the University.
The Class of 1913 award was established by the Class of 1913. The award is given annually to a graduating senior man and graduating senior woman who by his/her evidenced intelligence, devotion to studies and personal character gives promise of usefulness to society.
Applications for the Class of 1913 Award and the Agnes Wright Strickland Award are available in the Office of Student Organizations and Activities, 220 Strong Hall. The Student Awards Committee invites nominations from the University Community. Self nominations are also welcomed. Applications for the awards must be received in the Office of Student Organizations and Activities, 220 Strong Hall, by Friday, April 25, 1980.