The Daily Republic from Mitchell, South Dakota • Page 9

THE DAILY REPUBLIC, Mitchell S. Thursday, May 15, 1958 Paao Nine First Practical Nursing School In Area Is Established In Mitchell As you enter the newly decorated Marian Hall of St. Joseph's Hospital School of Practical Nursing, greeting you at the reception desk will be Mrs. Gordon Smith, the school secretary. She is pictured above, welcoming Mrs.

Norbcrt Laufenberg of Mitchell, standing, who has been accepted for the June class. A well slocked library is available to the nursing student. The school director, Miss Helen Boyd, is shown above perusing through the shelves. Well qualified for her position, Miss Boyd lias been a registered nurse since 1951 and was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Practical Nursing. Sister M.

Alma, above, in charge of the dietary department of St. Joseph's Hospital, will teach the practical nursing students about normal and modified diets. The new electric range, with its deep-well coffee percolator, will also be used by the students for jam and study sessions. Miss Sharon Osier of Sioux Falls, who toured the new school when she registered for the June class, is examining some of the records for the new combination radio and hi-fi set in the recreation room. You know the work and no play will be no dull students tn the new school of practical nursing at St.

adequate facilities have been provided for their leisure hours. When you visit Marian Hall during National Hospital Week or later, by all means note the pleasant surroundings throughout the entire building. It has all been newly decorated. Relaxing on their tour are our future practical nurses pictured above. They found soft drinks and coffee available.

Josephine Brown is on the left, talking to Sharon Oster and Jane Radabaugh. Republic Photos By Tice Every school has busy, hard working directors and St. Joseph's School of-Practical Nursing is no exception. The school Is under the general supervision of the Mitchell Public Schools and of Trunk Frick, director of vocational education. Above, conferring in the comfortable living room of the school, arc, from the left, Mr.

Trick, Mother M. Steven, administrator of St. Joseph's Hospital; Miss Helen Boyd, director; Lloyd T. tlccker, superintendent of Mitchell Public School system; and Sister M. llcrnndcltc, Instructor and director of nurses at St.

Joseph's. LPN School Will Teach Adequate Bedside Care BY ELFRIEDA TICE Mitchell Society Editor Just as the church administers to spiritual needs of a person, so nurse carries on God's work by administering to the care and growth of the persons physical needs. Nursing is one of the oldest professions and it has seen many phases in its growth from the time, let us say, when Mary washed the swollen feet of Jesus in the story of the Good Samaritan, to the days of Florence Nightingale, to those of Clara Barton, and to one's own mother. Mankind has always nursed the sick and wounded to the best of his ability. Prom this beginning has developed the registered nurse.

And from this is now, developing the licensed practical nurse. Because of the acute need in the United States for trained personnel to give closer, simplified bedside care, that will relieve the registered nurse for more intricate tasks, and to provide more adequate supervision on a professional level for the patients, the schools for practical nurses are being established. And it is for this reason that the School of Practical Nursing at St. Joseph's Hospital was established in Mitchell. This new school replaces that of the three-year accredited St.

Joseph's Presentation School of Nursing, for registered nurses. Its doors will open for the first class of 25 students June 3, 1958. This will make the second such school in the state of South Dakota and the first in this area. The course will last for one year and. both men and women are eligible to apply.

Applicants must be 17 years of age or over, with at least two years of high school. In the School of Practical Nursing the student will learn how to give nursing care in the home or in the hospital to men, women and children who are chronically ill, acutely ill or convalescing. They will be prepared, upon gra duation to gixe nursing care in public-health agencies, to work in doctors offices, in medical clinics. There are many places and jobs available for licensed practi a 1 nurses, working under the physicians -orders or with a register ed nurse. She will not take the place of the R.

N. The School of Practical nursing in Mitchell is under the general supervision of the Mitchell Public Schools, and of Prank Prick, director of vocational education, according to Lloyd T. Uecker, euperto A licensed practical nurse is trained to give bedside care; works WITH the registered nurse and under the supervision of a registered nurse or doctor at all times. The course is 13 months In length, with a three-weeks vacation included. The 16- week preliminary training period in instruction in basic nursing Is followed by the clinical period in St.

Joseph's Hospital. In- cluded in the new equipment is the motorized hospital bed and the life-site model of a woman, shown above. The model is of a pliable material with special areas for injections mid other care of the patient. Sister M. ElUebeth Ann is demonstrating the giving of a hypodermic injection.

Interested spectators are Sharon, Jane and Josephine. tendent of the Mitchell schools. The program must go through the public schools and be approved by the S. D. Department of Public Education, becaUwS federal funds are allocated for such industry and trade schools only through the public schools.

"The federal government makes a grant to the states that partial' pate in the trade and vocational educational work. South Dakota is included in this program," Mr, Prick said. Federal funds for this program will caver the costs of the instruc- ion and 75 per cent of the necessary materials for instruction. Cost to each student will be $160 which includes uniforms and books Miss Helen R. Boyd is the direc of the school.

She comes well qualified, having been graduated 1951 from Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in Sioux City. She her BS degree from Briar Cliff College and her Masters education from the University of Minnesota. At the University, irtiss Boyd was a member of the faculty for the practical nursing program. Also on the staff will be Sister M. Bernadette, director of nurses at St.

Joseph's Hospital; Sister M. Alma, hospital dietetian; and Sister M. Elizabeth Ann. Other staff nembers will be announced later. During the first four months of course, the students will working and studying mainly in the classrooms.

Pictures on this page show some of the days activities of the future licensed practical lurses. Later the student nurse will have supervised experience in the hospital. This time is spent learning about various diseases; studying the phases of medical and surgical lursing. Sufficient practice In each nuur- sing field is given each student so he or she may develop skill and self confidence and to assure safe care of the patient. Always, the care of the patient is uppermost the minds of the nurses, both registered arid licensed practical Included in their course of study will be recovery room nursing, preparation of sterile supplies, nursing techniques in the fields of obstetrics, pediatric.

geriatric (the old folks) and that of the newborn, and the preparation of special diets. An integral part of the school is Advisory Committee composed of 18 civic-minded persons. Mem- jers include representatives of medicine, professional nursing, hospital administration, gener a 1 ducation, the Alumnae Associa- iion, practical nursing, organized community groups and press, radio and TV. Serving on the committee are Mrs. Gene Gates of Letcher, Miss Matilda Bloem of Emery, and 'rom Mitchell, the Rev.

Robert Anderson, Mrs. Melvin Bauman, Sis- M. Bernadette, Miss Boyd, Mrs. Peter Economos, Mr. Prick, Dr.

Richard Gere, Mrs. Elsie Snow ffanson, the Rev. Arnold Herbst, Mrs. Louis Herzog, Dr. Robert Neli- mark, Mrs.

M. Ronald, Mrs. Leo Stedman, Mother M. Stephen, Mr. Uecker and Don Winner.

The committee was formed early this past winter to study the needs of the school as an educational institution concerned with a service to the community and to the nation. As a working unit the committee is prompting understanding and a co-operative relationship between the school and community. Members are assisting with the procurement of students and are working for the establishment of scholarships and loan funds. Any member will be glad to answer questions on the new school. Officers of the Advisory Com mittee are Mr.

Winner, president; Mrs. Economos, vice president, and Mrs. Gates, secretary. As the school gets underway with the first class in June and the second class starting in the fall, it will be the work of the Advisory Committee to assist in acquainting the public with the preparation of the licensed practical nurse so that each graduate may be utilized to the utmost. The committee mem- The serious side in the life of the future licensed practical nurse will take place in a -classroom such as.

this large one with southern exposure, containing U5 new chair-desks. The room la equipped with life-like composition models to be used in classes, including- a newly arrived torso, that can be taken apart. There is also ample equipment for use of audio-visual aids. Above, three members of the June class are watching and listening to instructor, Sister M. Elizabeth Ann as she shows an enlarged model of a human eye, which can also be (uken apart.

Standing Is Miss Jane Radabaugh of Fulton; seated are Miss Sharon Osier, left, and Miss Josephine Brown, both of Sioux Falls. I bers will help with the placement of graduates. It will also be their duty to acquaint the faculty and administration with comniun i feelings and problems pertaining to the school and the graduates. Practical nursing schools arc not new, one of the first was start-! ed in New York City in 1893, ac-l cording to Miss Boyd. In 1917 the first school for licensed practical nurses was started in Minneapolis.

By 1947 there were 50 such schools and in 1957 over 500 schools were operating in the United States. The Mitchell School of Practical Nursing at St. Joseph's Hospital will follow the established plan of these other schools with a one- year program of study. A forty-j hour week will be observed to in-j elude classes and experience inj the hospital. I This is the new school starting! June 3 in Mitchell.

i But what of the students enrolling why did they enroll and what of their future after prariua the story will be of the thoughts of the community about the new school in Mitchell and of the future of its raduates. A thought was given to comfort for overnight guests the students might have. Above, is such a room, similar to the bedrooms for the girls. Seated at the maple desk is Miss Phyllis Kurtenbach of Mitchell, one of the first young women to enroll in the new school. She is also wearing- the new school uniform and cap.

The daughter of Mrs. Casper Kurtenbach, Phyllis finished high school last year and is now a nurse's aide at St, Joseph's Hospital. After our tour of the new nursing school and its facilities, lunch is in order. Here, our future licensed practical nurses are becoming acquainted with the food the hospital serves and also with another member of their class, Mrs. Ruth Brudvig, right.

Mrs. Brudvig, who is now in the dietetic department of the hospital, is looking forward to being an LPN. She, and Josephine Brown, Sharon Oster and Jane Radabaugh, above, and Phyllis Kurtenbach and Mrs. Laufenberg. all have one thing in like they should make a success of helping others in their future careers as licensed practical nurses..