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Nursing Program
Students Endure Long Hours of Work , Study To Get Degrees
BY THUDY SMITH
Sharon Lewis will be spending
the next few months of her life
in a wheelchair as a result of an
automobile collision caused by
a drunken driver, but this in
cident is not going to stop her
from pursuing her studies as
one of 28 nursing students at
West Georgia College.
One of Sharon’s friends, Jan
Bell, said, “Our class is like one
big family. We are all going to
help take care of Sharon, roll
her to class and take notes for
her until she gets back on her
feet again. She thinks she will
be an imposition, but she won’t
be. Helping her will be good
experience for us.”
Sharon’s determination and
the helping attitude of her
friends appear to be typical of
the feeling of students enrolled
in the new nursing program.
THK PROGRAM
(The nursing program began
in the fall of 1974 with 39
students under the direction of
Dr. Julie Yvonne Webb.)
The program has not been
without problems since it began
last fall. For example, some of
the students fear that the
rumored possibility of placing
the program under the School of
Arts and Sciences “would make
it impossible to be qualified to
take the state nursing exam.”
Geology Professor Claims Ample Petroleum
Resources Exist Within American Boundaries
A West Georgia College
geologist, Dr. Sumner Long,
who worked with two major oil
companies before entering the
teaching profession, has said
there is “no question” in his
mind that the oil companies are
“doing their best to find as
much petroleum as they
possibly can” off American
shores.
Having worked with Gulf Oil
for three years in the Rocky
Mountains and Standard Oil of
Indiana along the coast of the
Gulf of Mexico, Long said there
was plenty of oil off the
American coastlines.
But he said the American
public would have to decide
whether it wished to risk a few
oil spills along areas used now
as recreation spots in order to
get the much-needed petroleum
out of the ground.
“The oil companies have to
operate profitably,” said Long,
“and in the past, it was cheaper
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However, Dr. Doyle Mathis,
who has administrative
responsibility for the program
as associate dean of faculties,
disagreed, commenting that it
would not make any difference
if the program was placed
under the School of Arts and
Sciences. “As long as the in
structors teach the required
courses and the students apply
themselves, there should be no
problem standing the state
board examination,” he said.
The program is made up of
students from different age
groups and most of them have
college degrees in other fields.
Many say that they do not plan
to stop their training with a
degree in nursing; they plan to
go on and get a B.S. in some
specialty.
Jan, who already has a B.S.
degree in English, said people
often ask her what she, an
English major, is doing in the
nursing program. "I tell them
English majors should be
versatile. I have always been
interested in people, biology
and chemistry and I can’t think
of a better way to combine those
interests than through a career
in nursing.”
“Every day is like a final
exam,” she said. “A good grade
on a test doesn’t mean a student
will pass the course. It’s
for them to operate overseas.”
That has all changed now, he
added. “We have seen what
happened when foreign nations
decide to tighten the pipe.”
The professor pointed his
finger towards Alaska, the
coastal plains of Florida, and
the Eastern seaboard when
asked where oil can be found in
American waters.
“We can find enough oil to
help maintain our supply if we
look within our own boundaries,
conserve what we have now,
and begin looking for alter
native sources of energy,” said
Long.
Some of those alternative
sources of energy include solar
energy, atomic power,
geothermal energy and others,
he said. Solar energy is the
“most plausible’’ of those.
“However, it will be at least 25
years before solar energy can
be fully developed,” said Long.
The problem with developing a
possible to ‘flunk on the floor’ if
we don’t put into practice what
we have learned We also have
to be open-minded, non
judgmental and accepting of
our patients.”
MISCONCEPTIONS
Jan said, “It’s a rigorous
schedule from sa.m to 5 p.m.,
and the late hours studying at
night are really demanding
“But,” she added, “it’s all
worth it. We learn something
new every day and day is
different.”
Some people have miscon
ceptions about nurses, she said.
They think “all we do is carry
bedpans.” Nothing could be
farther from the truth, ac
cording to the student. “It’s
true, e do carry bedpans, but
they also carry a lot of
responsibility for humanity,”
she said.
Martha Huff said for her,
nursing is “more of a feeling”
than a profession.
“I’ve always wanted to be a
nurse and even though the
schedule is strenuous, I haven’t
doubted my decision. I feel like
I’m accomplishing something
worthwhile and at the same
time, preparing myself to do
something that will offer a
stable job anywhere I may go
after I finish school,” she said.
“Our instructors are the
solar energy system lies in
advancing technology quickly
enough to where it could be
usable before present oil sup
plies are exhausted, he added.
“With the demand for more
energy,” Long said, “never was
the time any better for someone
to become involved in geology
as a career.” Admitting that he
is “enamored” with geology,
Long said his field had “un
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backbone of the program,” said
Martha “They are capable,
thorough and dedicated people
and take the field of nursing
seriously. We respect them
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Commenting on the two-year
program as compared to three
year nursing programs, Martha
said the two-year program is
not “watered down” and that
they get all the scientific
background that a three-year
program offers.
STAFF
Dr. Webb came to West
Georgia College in November,
1973, to develop the nursing
program and since that time
three instructors have been
employed. They are Phyllis
Richardson, Nora Klinefelter,
and Mrs. Bobbie Siler.
The nursing program is
designed to coordinate
academic subjects with nursing
laboratory experiences. During
the first quarter of the new
program students worked in
both the college clinical lab and
directly with patients at Coweta
General Hospital in Newnan
and at Douglas County Hospital.
The nursing department
dergone a revolution within the
last decade.”
He added that many of the old
concepts had been reevaluated
and found to be untrue. Persons
entering the geological field
today have a chance to make a
lot of new discoveries, said the
chairman of the geology
department, because “the
whole method of looking at the
earth is changing.”
employs the team teaching
method, with the same in
structors supervising students
in clinical areas located in
regional hospitals, nursing
homes, public health clinics and
physicians offices. The
program has a low student
teacher ratio.
PATIENTS
Selecting patients the
students will deal wRh is a
complex procedure, according
to the nursing staff. Permission
is required from the attending
physician, the nursing super
visor on the floor and the nurse
taking care of the patient. After
permission is granted, the
student must go to the library
and study the condition of the
patient. One student cares for
the patient at a time, allowing
more in depth, individual at
tention. The average stay in
Coweta General, per patient
that the students see, is five to
eight days.
REQUIREMENTS
Students are formally ad
mitted to the nursing program
only after completing one
quarter of fuL-time work with a
minimum overall grade point
average of 2.0 and attaining a
grade of “C” or higher in the
first nursing course.
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