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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Nov. 2, 1964
Personal Touch at Health Center
By Jane Larson
A Watkins Hospital patient has two kinds of "nurses."
Most familiar are the "ladies in white" carrying their thermometer and pills.
Less familiar, however, are the un-uniformed women who visit patients armed with toothbrushes and stamps. They may even write a letter home for them.
THESE WOMEN are the Watkins Hospital hostesses, voluntarily doing tasks for patients usually assigned to the patient's roommate.
They do anything from contacting an instructor about an exam to selling stamps, toothbrushes, or combs.
"We felt the student might feel less away from home if he had someone not in a uniform taking care of his personal needs," Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of Watkins and sponsor of the hostesses.
The ten hostesses, headed by Mrs. Donna Steen, head nurse, are wives of university instructors, with the exception of one housemother.
EACH HOSTESS visits every patient, except in isolated cases, once every two weeks between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. The patient sees a different hostess every day for two weeks.
To cheer the patient the hostess
oftens brings newspapers and magazines with her as she makes her rounds.
"Our biggest amount of work lies in contacting the patients' room-mates," Mrs. Leland Pritchard, 1725 Mississippi, hostess chairman, said.
SOMETIMES THE HOSTESS may have to make five to ten telephone calls for one patient and maybe none for another.
The hostess may even find herself writing notes home to the parents if the patient is unable to do so himself.
"The real aid and comfort students want, such as candy and cigarettes, we can't give them," Mrs. Pritchard said.
Traffic Carnage Takes Lives of 13
TOPEKA — (UPI)—Fast-mounting horror on the highway reached new peaks this week-end and continued today with a fatal crash on the Kansas Turnpike.
The worst accident in the state's history, which brought the deaths of nine young persons in a collision Friday night near Wichita, was followed by two double-fatality crashes last night.
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"IT'S A GOOD chance to get out and meet the students," Mrs. Reginald Strait, 1346 Louisiana, said.
"Although we meet quite a few students, there really isn't time for extensive conversations." Mrs. Wakefield Dort, 2420 Harvard, said.
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"They seem to like the casual, unbusinesslike way we go about our work, a welcome change from the busy nurses." Mrs. Dort said.
"A TIE WITH the outside world is good for a patient." Dr. Canuteson said, "they don't feel so cut off from things. This need is filled by the hostesses."
The organization was started in 1959 when Dr. Canuteson decided that the patient had needs other than the pills and shots which are all the busy nurse has time for.
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Applications for COLLEGE BOWL COMMITTEE are being accepted at College Office, 206 Strong. Applications due
Tuesday, November 3
APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE IN LETTER FORM, AND SHOULD INCLUDE —
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