School of Nursing Scrapbook 1979

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WIDNESDAY MORNING, JANUAIY 15, 1975

DEAN Nursing Has A Long Way To Go

sponsored by the University of San Diego Auxiliary. The program at the new USD nursing school, says Dr. Palmer, "Is designed to give the registered nurse a more thorough background that will provide her with the capacity to assume a more active and comprehensive role in providing nursing service and nursing care to individuals, as well as to their families, in a wide va- riety of health care set! tings." 69 STUDENTS Sixty nine full and part– time students are currently enrolled in the school. Today's nurse, she says, works "in a colleague role with the physician and other health professionals rather · than in a lesser capacity." The role of today's nurse is not a static thing, "but var– ies depending on where .she is. "And she assumes re– sponsibilities according to the other kinds of heaJth services available." During Dr. Palmer's nurs– ing career, she has seen nurses move from a tradi– tionaJ role "to an initiating role.

slty School of Education, began her career more than 25 years ago, serving as an operating room nurse in the Jersey City Medical Center. ARMY CAPTAIN Her professional experi– ence also mcludes a stint from 1953-56 as a captain in the Army urse Corp, in which she served as an In– structor in the Medical Field Srrvk" Schools at Letter– ma Army Hospital, San Francisco, and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D. C. Dr Palmer and the Hahns will be honored during an invitational reception from 5-7 p.m. Jan. 24 in the French parlor of Founders Hall on the USD campus,

improvement, she bl.'lievps . 1 In g v1ng nurse · a greater rol ln the drcision-making procrss: 'In health care, the nurse is often excludPd from gov– erning boards, from key po– sttions, from kf'y eommit- 1 es involving h alth rarf' \\ 1thin many 'late legisla– ture · , from within ht•alth car agenrJcs and at her own plac of Pmplo ment" . Today' nu , she agre1: . 1 often IPrt m the dark. "Decisions ar •often made wt11ch th nu is exprrtcd to carry out and yet sh has not b en involvrd in the dcci– s on-makmg process itself." Dr. Palmer, who rcreiv!'d t • doctorate in nur ing 11 1m th New York Univer-

By ELAii 'E S:\l'\'TH Whll im– prov ments \\ithin thf' nur ·– ing prof> 10n o\ c>r th pa t quarter century, "we still hav a long way to go," ays Dr. Irene Sabelbc rg Palmer. She is lhf' first df'all of th niversity of San Dwgo' · Philip Y. Hahn School of 1 ursing and Allird Hc>alth Sci nc • . n scnuol, wtu ·h off r a bachelor's degree ms i nee, wa. ope1wd last S(•ptember and was cn•alcd through a million dollar girl by Mr. and ~rs. Hahn . Dr. Palmer beli ves It is r unique "because it ls the onJy program in thi · an•a designed only for thr rt'gis– ter d nurse." SECOND CUSS "Nursing and nurses have been second-class citi1.cns in health car since time im– memoriaJ, " ays Dr. Palm• er, who recently moved from Boston to an Diego with her mother, Mr . May Hei~r Sabelberg, and hrr son, An• drew, 16. "This is probably b cause they have been women and the tory of nursing is actu– ally the story of women in our society and throughout the world," sys Dr. Palmer Before coming to San Diego she served for six years as the dean of the School of •'ursing at Bo .ton University, where she also served as a faculty profes– sor. She savs one of th best ways any group of people · can be utilized be. t by soci• ety is when th y attain posi– tions of equality - meduca– tion, employment and career opportunities "and the sys– tem of rewards in our soci– ety." GREATER ROLE roaay,sne says, sne 1s wit– nessing greater acce: for nurses seeking higher educa– tion and she feels it's a very healthy sign A maJor area that needs th re haH' bt'en tr - mendou changes and

"She no':" has the capacity to make mdependent judg– ments and carry out nursing• interventions that affect the , patient," Dr. Palmer · · For the most part, Amert- .....,Q fig can schools of nursing have not been given the Credit) Go they deserve, she believes . "American sch 1 oo s of nursmg have fulfilled th . mrces. roles and functions for :u-·~lmer's mos world's benefit" she e't-1shed award "And th h ' Baid. . n the profes • ey ave assumed h their responsibilitie c1en s e wa_s more than society hs far Boston Um– knowledged or reportead~' ac- ~i _Award for · 1d mits school MEANINGFUL own as one of _Sh~ saJd it has only been;ing schools in w1thm the past three years that . nursing schools have~eat satisfac– rece1~ed any meaningful fi- 1g I'm able to nanc1al support from profession to ll'll11lirnli't interests of ,m Page D-l) . federal

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