Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-06-11
NURSES aide

girl must take two weeks vaca-
ton sometime during the summer.
THE NURSES AIDE program
started in 1852 with a group of
girls who included Donna Lou and
Darla Whitman, Elizabeth Baum
gartner, Joan Tietjen, Lura Feye-
delem, Marion Risch, Mary Lou
Brokate, Susie Szilagy, Evelyn
May, Anna Mae Foss, Shirley
Ringholz, Marian Chlystun, Caro-
line Brugger, and Marion Loren
sen. Three of the girls, Elizabeth
Baumgartner, Mary Lou Brokate,
and Caroline Brugger, have en-
tered training; Susie Szilagyi will
enroll in nurses training this fall,
as will Shirley Ringholtz and Mar
ian Chlystun. Evelyn May enrolled
at Mary Manse to learn to be a
laboratory technician.
In June, 1853, 10 more girls
came in for nurses aide training:
Noel Myers, Christine Hostrup,
and Shirley Fachman, who have
already planned to enter training
this fall; Gale Shively, Frances
Walters, Caryl and Maryl Rice,
Paula GrieSser, Ruth Rofkar, and
Darla Schultz.
STATE INSPECTORS who visit
the hospital have been amazed at
the program here, unique in its
completeness for a hospital this
size. 1t is not, Miss Specht en-
phasizeS, training course for
practical nJrseS. Magruder hos-
pital contributes toward the Cen
trail School of Nursing in Toledo,
which Specializes in practical nurS-
ing, through the hospital assocss-
ton with which it is affiliated.
Largely as result of the in
tereSt engendered by the nurses
aide program, this area has fur
nished more potential nurses in
these past few years than ever
before.
And the best part is that when
the girls do go into training, it
isn't with the idea of "I'll see how
| like it, and if I don't like it I
can quit" They have learned from
their nurses aide training Just
what actual nursing will be, its
tough spots and its bright spots.
FIRST WEEK of a new nurses
aide group is devoted to pains
taking practice in bedmaking, in
giving baths, and in doing the
many little essentials that mean
added comfort to the patient. Then
the girls are turned over to floor
supervisors, who continue their
instruction with more advanced
training. They wear white UNI
forms, and they are proud of their
advancing proficiency as the weeks
roll by.
RAY BOILER, widely known in
Kiwanis circles, among other ac-
tivities, put it we'll in a letter he
wrote to Miss Specht after a re-
cen hospital stay: Zone thing
never knew about was the illustra-
tion of your Nurses Aide pro-
gram. I am familiar with the boys
and girls work programs of most
of the service clubs, but this nur-
ses' aid deal far surpasses any
thing of this kind I have ever OBJ
served. You are developing a pro-
blem in human relation which is
second in its benefits to these
kids only to your first objective
of Healing itself. 1t occurs to me
that this part of your program
might be publicized so that the
general public know more about
it. assure you it is one of your
greatest assets. Even if most of
these kids only serve a year or
two, they gain a knowledge and
poiSe that will make them better
wives and mothers. Those who 60
ahead and become nurses will
I certainly find places of honor and
of value in their communities.
"This was my first experience
as a patient in a hospital" ended
Mr.. Boiler. 81 wouldn't have mis-
sed it for words-not one moment
of inattention, not one cross word
with every contact pleasing and
helpful. You may well be pleased
with your entire staff"
MARLENE NIELSEN, co-vaTede
dovan this year, also plans nurs
ing career. She enters st. Luke's
Cleveland, in the fall as does Noe
Myers and Christine Hostrup.
home following several months
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