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Tuesday, February 6, 1979
University Daily Kansan
New hospital to face shortage of nurses
By CAITLIN GOODWIN
Staff Reporter
The nursing staff at the University of Kansas Medical Center will not be adequate when the new Bell Memorial Hospital reaches its full capacity, Mary Anne Eisenbise, director of nursing services, said yesterday.
“Initially there will be the same number of patients as there are now,” she said. “But as we go full force on the patient load, there probably won't be enough nurses.”
The new hospital, which will have 214 more beds than the present hospital, is scheduled to begin admitting patients in late June or early July.
She said there already was a shortage of nurses at the Med Center, as well as physicians.
"There's a perpetual shortage," she said. "We've improved, though. I've been here almost 25 years, and we've tripled our number of nurses.
"But we've also taken on more serious patients who require specialized care. Critical patients take more nurses. I don't think we have enough."
DAVID WAXMAN, executive vice chancellor for administration at the Med Center, said recruitment programs would begin after Bell Memorial reached capacity.
"We're recruiting right now," he said. "We're going to phase it in, we're not going to jump into it with an extra load of nurses, but we're going to handle it as the new patients come in."
Eisenbisse mentioned two programs the School of Nursing had started to recruit more nurses. One is a refresher program for retired nurses; another is a program in
which nurses are taught specialties, for six or seven weeks.
The school also has increased enrollment from 18 students this year to 122 students.
EISENBISE SAID the school also had intensified its recruitment program with more advertising and larger participation in high school career days.
"The way our recruitment program has been going, the shortage won't be as great."
Elsenbie said she would like to see more licensed practical nurses at the Med Center. These nurses take only one year of training and are responsible for the responsibilities of registered nurses.
"These could fill a void while the RN's are still training," she said. "It takes a few more years for the RN's to get their certification we need to make up the deficit some way."
She said two local schools, the Area Vocational School in Kansas City, K安., and the Missouri Educational Program in St. Louis, both attended Center had the first LPN training program in the area, but the state phased it out in 1973 to concentrate on the four-year RN
THE MED CENTER employs 430 RN's and 150 LPN's, as well as nurses' aides and assistants, she said. When Belt Memorial opens, many nurses may have to work outside the building to load. Elsbensaid said some nurses would appreciate this, while others would protest.
"A lot more nurses are moonlighting and "I will want the extra hours," she said, "while there are others who, if they are asked to do overtime, will feel that it hides morale."
"We just compromise with the nurses until we can work something out."
Proposed law to aid police
Bv PATRICIA MANSON
Staff Reporter
The KU Police Department would be less dependent on other law enforcement agencies would expand the powers of campus police. Mike Thomas, director of police,
"One of the problems we now have have to having to rely on the good graces of the Lawrence city police and Douglas County sheriff," Thomas said.
The proposal, introduced in the Kansas Senate Thursday at the request of the Kansas City Police authority over property owned or operated by endowment associations, fraternities, sororites or athletic associations and over city governments.
Campus police also would have the authority to investigate a crime and make arrests anywhere in the county in which it was committed on University property.
UNDER PRESENT law, campus police do not have authority over property that is held by campus groups. If a property is held by the police must get authorization from the county sheriff or city police department in order to continue an investigation offence.
State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, said he did not think a bill expanding the power of campus police was a good idea.
"The question is—Do we want to expand the powers of the police?" Glover said. "I haven't heard of any overwhelming or compelling reason for the bill."
However, Thomas said that KU police investigate 1,500 to 1,800 crimes a year, not including traffic violations.
The proposed law would apply to 32 officers on the Lawrence campus and 22 officers on the campus of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Thomas said it was difficult for campus police to make arrests for crimes that occurred close to campus. It may have been a case of the police, which is in a high-crime area, he said.
"THE POLICE virtually have to stand there and watch crimes being committed, unless they are felonies," Thomas said.
Campus police are authorized to make arrests off-campus if they see someone commit a felony or flee from the scene of a felony.
Mitt Meyers, director of police at Wichita State University, said campus police at WSU also had to depend on the authorities for the authority to investigate crimes.
"We have to rely on a deputy sheriff commission or a city police commission to be able to follow up cases." Meyers said.
Frank Lowman, chairman of the Board of Regents, said the law was needed to prevent confusion between campus and city police.
Although several bills expanding the powers of campus police have been introduced in the last few years, Lowman said, none have passed.
The Kansas Senate is to debate the bill Monday.
6 Nigerian students await government money
Six Nigerian students face de-enrollment Feb. 13 if their government does not pay the back fees it owes to the University of Kansas.
Craig McCoy, comptraller, said he had received overdue fees Jan. 26 for 10 Nigerian students who are on scholarships and had to pay six for six students remained unaccounted for.
"It IT JUST HAPPENS to be the particular situation with the Nigerians."
"It's been a tremendous extension of state and University policies," he said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday that KU had been willing to allow the Nigerian students to go through enrollment and delay fee payments, despite the state policy that requires students to pay tuition in full at enrollment.
He said the office of foreign student services and the department of student life were working with the students who face denrolment.
Each student's case will be considered individually, Ambler said, and extenuating circumstances may warrant extra consideration.
Musa Sha, Jos, Nigeria, senior, is one of the six Nigerian students who have not received the scholarship money from his state in Nigeria.
The flow of money from the state of Pittsburgh, where he lives, to KU can go two万里.
Sha said he was one month behind on the rent for his Stoffler Place apartment and had already borrowed the maximum amount allowed from the office of financial
Ordinarily, the money goes first to Lagos, the capital of Nigeria, where it is cleared by the minister of education and the central bank, he said.
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Then the money goes to the Nigerian High Commission in England, who then sends it either to the Nigerian Embassy in London or to the Nigerian Consulate in New York.
According to Ambler, the Nigerian
Consulate had a good record of prompt
patient care.
Because of pressure from some universities, however, the money has been sent directly from each Nigerian state to the consulate in New York, Sha said.
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Weather delays projects
SUA taking applications
Bad weather has stopped or slowed work on University building projects and will prevent at least one of those projects from being completed on time.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said recently that plans had called for the satellite union to be completed in April. It is doubtful the completion date could be met.
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He said workers had enclosed the lower
part of the work done inside, but said
multiple exterior work required.
The Student Union Activities office now is accepting applications for officers and staff.
'How much the exterior work will delay the project we don't know,' Wiechcari said.
Although some work is being done on the satellite union. Wichier said the snow had
completely stopped work on the Robinson Gymnasium addition.
"We had hoped to start using the facility for next spring and it's still possible the facility will be closed," he said.
Applications are available in the SUA office in the Kansas Union and must be received by 5pm.
Wiechert said exterior work also had been hampered on the Malott Hall addition.
However, he said, some work was beind done and it was possible the project could be completed.
He said that project should be completed about two weeks after work could be done.
Wiechert said the University's other building project, the parking garage at GSP-Corbin, also had been shut down by the snow.
The board member positions are chairmen of public relations, films, free university, forums, indoor recreation, and special event spaces, travel and fine arts committees.
Friday deadline for nominations
The officer positions are president, vice president, secretary and treasurer.
Board officers are to be chosen Feb. 22 and board members are to be chosen Feb. 24. The new appointees will take office immediately to begin plans for next year.
The deadline for nominations for College Assembly elections is Friday at 4:30 p.m. Nominations may be submitted to the office of President, on the Department'sices, 206 Strong Hall, or Numeraker Center.
Elections will be held February 14 and 15 with Student Senate elections.
There are 150 openings for students with freshman, sophomore or junior standing in
The College Assembly is a representative body composed of all faculty members and elected students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The assembly meets on the first Tuesday of each month that school is in session to consider policy changes and other school business.
The next meeting will be tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas
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