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VA Medical Center honors outstanding employees of month AUGUSTA Mrs. Ellen DeGeorge-Smith, Director, Augusta VA Medical Center, is pleased to announce the March recipients of the Em ployee of the Month award—Lisa Sanford, LMSW, Primary Care Service Line, Downtown Division and Linda H. Johnson, Executive Office, Uptown Division. The Au gusta VA Medical Center recog nizes two employees each month for their leadership qualities, con tribution to the medical center goalé, customer service skills and community involvement. Lisa Sanford is the social worker for the primary care team D at the downtown division. Sanford’s co-workers say her strengths include her willingness not only to “listen” but also to “Hear” what a veteran needs. They state her contributions to patient care are immeasurable. She pro vides exemplary customer service to veterans and their families by making sure they are connected with available community and VA resources. Stanford is tireless in her efforts to ensure that she and the rest of her primary care team go that “extra mile” to do what is Students learn to care for children via virtual technology The Medical College of Georgia School or Nursing is the first in the world to own a pediatric pa tient simulator that will help nurs ing anesthesia students learn to care for children. The simulator, connected to a computer which monitors the student’s every action, 1s mod eled after a 6 year old and will be used this fall to teach students to administer anesthesia to young patients with various complica tions. Dr. Fred Lupien, a certified reg istered nurse anesthetist and co ordinator of the MCG Nursing Anesthesia program, said stu dents entering the nursing anes thesia program have less experi ence with critically ill children than they do with adults. 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She serves as a field instructor for Master Social Worker (MSW) students at the thesia management of pediatric patients, as well as management of uncommon or potentially cata strophic events in pediatric pa tients. The gediatric patient simu lator allows students to treat chil dren who may have complications that developduring surgery or who come tosurgery with complications. Malignant hyperthermia—a sig nificant elevation in body tempera ture whihc is triggered by anes thetic agents an can be life threat ening—usually manifests in the operating room, but can occur within the first few hours of recov ery from anesthesia. Bradycar dia—low blood pressure accompa nied by a slow heart beat—is a condition a patient can have prior to undergoing surgery. “Anesthesiais such a critical pro fession and when you're in the ac tual clinical environment, the pa ¥ s - " ¥ . Lisa Sanford University of Georgia and the University of South Carolina. As atransportation volunteer for the “Brown Bag Program,” Sanford delivers monthly litems (grocer -les, toiletries, etc.) to homebound residents in Warren County, trav eling many miles from her home in Columbia County Linda Johnson is one of the tient 1s always the first priority,” said Dr. Lupien. “From an educa tional perspective, the student doesn’'t gain any appreciation for the consequences of what they were doing (unless they use the simula tor).” With the simulator, students are able to ask “What if?” questions, said Dr. Lupien, adding that it isin the lab where students gain a greater knowledge of consequences of their actions. The pediatric patient simulator, along with an adult patient simu lator purchased by the school in 1995, will be used by students dur ing the transitional phase from their didactic to clinical training. “We are now using the adult simulator as a transition from the student being in the classroom to being in a clinical situation,” ex plained Dr. Lupien. “Historically, e—— e el T TSR T e NN TTR T RTTRTTR TTR j' 2 FOR | s - | iDier B | .e et COKE, DIET i 4 COKE OR SPRITE AT 12 pack ‘f@ 12 ounce cans ! 1) Sale Price Without | ew P Coupon 26.99 («’K © ' i Plus deposit where required. ! MW, ems per customer | «Mlll7B 3 EXPIRES 4800 : ’ 2D Lt _ oo i ——— - | : e o = o N ‘L & ‘ ‘ - i Ll o b, v !{{S T 4 ‘ & \ J :; ;’v“‘ 3 &«" o™ *‘7 § : ¢ Mw‘m G *\»‘.F, .‘%' — -y Pastel sold. candy coated chocolate . 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The major ity of her focused reviews are con ducted to determine our prepared ness for JCAHO and assist differ ent service lines in where to focus improvement efforts. Her supervi sor states that Johnson is a hard worker and always willing to learn new aspects of her job. She has recently taken on the responsibil ity for producing the Sunday bulle tin and monthly newsletter for he Augusta Primitive Baptist Church. She and her husband, Keith, have coordinated several majorimprove ment projects at their church dur ing the past year. She also serves as Treasurer for the VAMC Em ployees Association. in nurse anesthesia education, you had all these classes and then, boom, you had a patient. Our siudents are experienced nurses, but thisis something new and a new level of decision mak ing and a new level of skills. What we are finding here is us ing the simulator in the transi tional process really helps.” Both the adult and pediatric patient simulators can be pro grammed so that students learn how to treat patients with vari ous ailments. “The public expects anesthesia providers to be trained to handle all kinds of cases,” said Dr. Lupien. “So, the biggest focus of our simulation program so far hasbeen making sure they get as much training in as many types of cases as possible.” AUGUSTA FOCUS U.S. audit: Minorities with AIDS getting inferior care compared to whites By KAREN GULLO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Blacks and Hispanics in the United States who have AIDS are getting inferior care compared to U.S. whites with the disease, gov ernment auditors concluded in an assessment of how government funding on AIDS programs was spent. “Compared with whites, Afri can Americans and Hispanics re ceive less appropriate care for their HIV disease,” said an audit released Thursday by the Gen eral Accounting Office, the inves tigative arm of Congress The GAO said that blacks, His panics and women with AIDS make up the vast majority of people served by local AIDS groups funded by a government program. But a congressman who re quested the audit said that sub standard care for minorities and women is a result of the federal government's emphasis on distrib uting funds based on the number of full-blown AIDS cases, instead of on the number of HIV-infected people “The resource dollars are going in the wrong direction,” said Rep resentative Tom Coburn of Okla homa, who released the GAO au dit of funds administered to state and local AIDS service groups through Ryan White Comprehen sive AIDS Resource Act grants Coburn said more federal dol lars should be directed towards prevention, which accounted for less than 10 percent of the $lO billion in federal AIDS spending MARCH 30, 2000 last year, according to the GAO. About 300,000 people in the, United States have AIDS. Hun dreds of thousands are HIV-in fected. & The 10-year-old Ryan Whi‘; program, named for a boy whose battle with AIDS attracted na tional attention, provides mon . for health clinics treating 1013 income AIDS patients and for training for those caring for HlV infected individuals. It has prg vided nearly dlrs 8 billion in gog * ernment funds to AIDS p: | The money goes primarily to :’ - ies with high concentrations of AIDS patients and to states. 7 The GAO audit cited a 1999 U.S study of HIV-infected peopls that showed blacks, Hispanics and™’ women were receiving substan dard care when compared -~ whites when it comes to doctors™ Visits, emergency room visits) ® hospitalizations and drug ther!l‘-‘;" pies w The findings come as research*” shows that the AIDS epidemic is'™ hitting minorities and women hard. Blacks, who make up about".* 13 percent of the U S. populatiof, accounted for 49 percent of AIDS™ deaths in 1998, according to th# .* Centers for Disease Controf ™ Thirty-two percent of deaths were " among whites and 18 percent werd: ¥ among Hispanics. 2y More than 23 percent of AIDS" 7 diagnoses reported in 1998 wergr among women . , Oy The Department of Health and~¥ Human Services, which adminis ters the Ryan White Care Act 4 grants, agreed with most aspects of the GAO report, the audit said. Subscribe Today! $24.95 For One Year Call 724-7867 CVS.com Shop online anytime. Our Exclusive Health Resource 11A