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Med center lacks nurses Emergency patients taken to other hospitals
By Melanie Matthes
Kansan staff writer
A nursing shortage at the University of Kansas Medical Center has resulted in the rerouting of emergency patients to emergency rooms at other area hospitals.
Eugene Staples, vice chancellor for hospital administration, said the Med AD had diverted to four emergency in the last month to other hospitals.
He said that the emergency room problems were a result of a lack of intensive care nurses at the Med Center.
Staples said that many hospitals were experiencing similar problems and that the Med Center was working with hospitals to alleviate the problems.
If the Med Center finds that it cannot accept a patient, a hospital official contacts the ambulance service and asks that the patient be taken to another hospital. Staples said.
If the Med Center finds that it cannot accept a patient, a hospital official contacts the ambulance service and asks that the patient be taken to another hospital.
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He said that the Med Center had
accepted patients from other hospitals for similar reasons.
"We are one of the many that are hurting in this area." Staples said. "But we are best utilizing our facilities."
Two intensive care patients require a minimum of one nurse, he said. One nurse may be required to attend to an active patient who is in serious condition.
Staples said that under the circumstances of the nursing shortage, it was better for a patient to be taken to school that was best able to handle him
Carol Thies, assistant director of recruiting for nursing services, said
129 intensive care nursing positions were at the Med Center. Thirty-five of these positions are vacant.
She said that when Med Center officials needed to make room for an emergency patient, they usually moved one of the patients from intensive care to another unit.
"There have been a couple of times when intensive care was filled and everyone in the intensive care unit was too sick to be moved." Thies said.
The Med Center probably will not be able to increase the number of intensive care nurses until some nursing students graduate in May, Thies said.
She said the Med Center did not turn away patients needing trauma, transplant, pediatric or burn injury services. Other Kansas City area hospitals do not offer these services
"It's kind of scary being in September and having so many vacancies," she said. "I think it is becoming more and more of a concern."
Curators serve on world congress
By Anita Meyer Kansan staff writer
Collectively, three curators at the Museum of Natural History have classified reptiles and amphibians for more than 25 years.
Their efforts recently gained the University international recognition when it became one of the few institutions in the world to be represented by three members on the World Congress of Herpetology.
Bill Duellman, curator, was elected to the executive committee of the congress.
Linda Trueb, adjunct curator, and Darrel Frost, assistant curator, were elected to the congress' international herpetological committee.
More than 1,300 delegates from 57 countries were represented when the congress met this summer, Duellman said.
The Zoological Institute of Sciences Academy in Leningrad might also have three members on the committee, he said.
Frost said KU was the only Kansas representative at the convention.
"Most of the people come from
Michigan, Berkeley or here," he said. "We are one of the three main institutions, as far as universities go."
Frost said that other museums such as the Field Museum, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Washington Institute, Washington DC., also sent delegates to the congress.
Two graduate students, Linda Ford, Lawrence, and Richard Cloutier, Montreal, Canada, also represented the University.
Duelman said that 18 KU graduates now represented other institutions, sometimes in other countries.
While at the convention, the curators received a rare fossil collection from a professor at Charles University, Czechoslovakia.
The collection contains 83 fossil specimens of the palaeobatrachid species are estimated to be from 35 million to 38 million years old. Trueb said.
"This is the only collection like this represented in the whole world," she said.
Trueb said the collection contained specimens from every life cycle of the frog, including some with parts of
Duelman he said he thought the professor gave the fossils to the museum so that the world beyond the iron curtain could see the collection.
skin left on them.
"I think he knew that no one outside of the iron curtain would be able to see it," he said. "He wanted to make sure it got taken care of."
Trueb said the professor worked for 45 to 50 years preparing the collection he found in a quarry.
"People probably think, 'Oh, if it's from that far back, it's probably primitive,'" she said. "That's not true at all. We have frogs living today that are more primitive than these."
She said the frog specimens could be compared to frogs used today in laboratory tests.
The collection is being prepared for display at the museum.
"We have everything from the tadpole to the frog," she said. "We can look at everything. Nothing was left out. In fact, the specimens are so well preserved that people who know enough about geology can reconstruct the environment they lived in."
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