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Broader Nursing Programs Proposed at Medical Center
Nursing education at the KU Medical Center is undergoing change and advancement with a view toward a more liberal curriculum.
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The curriculum for freshmen and sophomore students wishing to enter the nursing program has been liberalized in the past few years, according to Martha Pitel, director of nursing education.
"With the idea that there is more to man than his physical problems, courses besides science are stressed during the first two years on the KU campus. These courses deal with man's emotional, spiritual and cultural background and problems." Prof. Pitel said.
Besides the program for widening the knowledge of a student nurse, nursing students will be encouraged to have a double major, Prof. Pitel said. One of these would, of course, be nursing and the other would be in any field. An example of the other possibilities would be languages, political science, music or history.
THE IDEA FOR a double major is still in the planning process. Several difficulties are keeping the proposed program from operation at this date, Prof. Pitel said. The biggest problem is whether nursing students will have to travel to KU to take courses or whether some plan can be worked out that the courses will be offered at the medical center.
Until this year student nurses who were juniors had to attend classes in the summer as part of their graduation requirements. Now they are free during the summer. This is the first year the requirement has been lowered, Prof. Pitel said.
The primary reason for this change, according to Dr. Pitel, is to allow the nursing student a chance to get more experience in a special field of interest, a chance to go to
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This summer two student nurses will fly to Frankfurt, Germany, for an International Congress of Nurses. Beverly Tjart, Baxter Springs junior, and Norma Roberts, Kansas City junior, will be among 8,000 nurses attending the conference.
While they are there they will work as student nurses at a hospital, attend clinics, classes and do public health work.
TWO OTHER WOMEN who are nursing students will also take advantage of a free summer to travel to Costa Rica. Julianne Wallace, Shawnee Mission junior, and Mary Turner, Topeka junior, will leave in June for the eight week session.
This is the first time KUMC nursing students will have participated in an international exchange program. These students will be sent as a pilot project to the school of nursing in Costa Rica. Since this is a pilot project, however, there will
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Prof, Pitel, who has been negotiating plans for the exchange for several months,has also been working on a similar exchange plan with the University of the Philippines. The plans for this project have just been started.
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be no student nurses from Costa Rica this summer at the medical center under the same program, Prof. Pitel said.
An undetermined number of student nurses will attend the Loeb Center in New York this summer to study cardiovascular (heart) nursing. Several others will stay at the medical center and study the same area of nursing, Prof. Pitel said.
All these students received scholarships for their summer work from the Kansas Heart Association.
"THE DEPARTMENT of nursing education is expanding at the medical center." Prof. Pitel said. "There are now 65 students enrolled in the student nursing program. Next year there will probably be 75 in the program."
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"We have sold about 9500 tickets so far." Frick said, "and there are about 200 left." He said that many of the remaining tickets are for very good seats throughout the field house. Tickets are still on sale at Bell's Music Store and at the Information Desk in the Kansas Union.
Good seats for the Henry Mancini Concert Saturday night are still available, Bill Frick, port Scott junior and 1965-86 SUA president, said.
Ticket prices are $1.75, $2.00, and $2.25.
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Josh White Jr., folksinger, and son of the famous Josh White who originated many of the songs and performances of folk numbers, is tentatively scheduled to appear on the program as a special guest.
HE WILL replace the Righteous Brothers, who were originally scheduled during the concert. The illness of Bob Hatfield, one of the members of the group, caused a cancellation of their appearance at KU.
Frick expressed hope that the concert would be a success.
"We can have better and better performers and performances if we
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HENRY MANCINl. composer of some of today's most popular music including "The Pink Panther," "Moon River," which he reportedly composed in 30 minutes, and "Peter Gunn." He will bring a 40-piece orchestra to the campus at 8 p.m. The performance will last about two hours, with a 20-minute intermission. Mancini will arrive early in the evening, and a press conference will follow the performance.
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