School of Nursing Training Some to Care for Others For the first year in the e ight~ year history of the baccalau reate degree program in nursing at Har~ ding, facu lty members we re ab le to concentrate on teaching and fu rthering t heir own education without the additional pressure of setting up t he curri cu lum, doing a self~study for accreditation, or making the arrangements for chartering a nat io na l honor soc iety. The program was ac~ credited in May, 1980, by the National League of Nu rses and the Epsilon Omicron chapter of Sigma Theta Tau was insta ll ed in Feb rua ry, 1982 , the second chapter insta ll ed in Arkansas. Three faculty members v igor~ ousl y pursued the doctorate in higher education during 1982~83. Loui se Bradford received a leave of absence for res idence study at Memphis State Univers ity and did only limited teaching during 1982-83. Cathl een M . Smith, dean of the School of Nu rsing, and Nancy S. Clark , ass ist ant t o the dean, carri ed full teaching and 200/School of Nursing adm ini strative leads, but both worked v igorously on disserta· tions for the doctorate from Vande rbil t University. At the beginning of the spring semes ter, both had computerized their data for anal ys is prior to beg inn· ing the actual writing. To assist graduates in pass ing the st ate board t es t pool ex· an'1inat i o n for I i censu re as reg istered nurses, National ~oard Rev iew courses were offered on campus in May to senior majors. Six facu lty members attended th e Nat io nal Board Review Preparation Seminar in Ch icago to qual ify to serve as instructors in the NBR courses. More t han 90 percent of the 45 graduates last May who took the state board test poo l examination in 17 dif· fe rent st ates passed t he exa mina~ tion and received licensure as an RN . All graduates prior to 1982 have passed t he licensure ex· am ination . Dean Smith conducted a work ~ shop in hea l t h in hea lth care management and superv ision in Kisumu , Kenya, in July and rece ived a c itat ion by the Ki sumu M uni ci pal Council fo r humanitar~ ian serv ices in the fie ld of heal th care . As pres ident of the Arka'n~ sas State Nurses Associat ion, she was presen ted l ast May t he Nurse Oay Honorary Proclamati on by Governor Frank White. New members of the nursing faculty in the fall of 1982 were _ John I. Radcliffe Ann Canady Clardy, Helen L am~ bert, Linda M cC lary , and Patricia Woods. Ann Chambl ess returned to the facu lty after an absence of two years. Faculty members participated in deve lopment act iv ities at Arkansas Chi l dren ' s Hospital , University of Arkansas Medical Sc ience Hospital, Home Health Serv ices of America, and Baptist Medical Center. A test construc· tion workshop was also conducted by Dr. Faye Bower of the Un iversity of San Francisco and Holly W il son of t he University of California at San Franc isco. 'Both students and faculty par~ ticipated in a number of com~ munity proj ec ts, including t he White Cou nty Fun Fai r for Preschoo l ers, hype rt e nSi o n screening projects conducted cooperati ve ly w ith the Kiwanis Club, frequent blood dri ves con~ ducted by the Ameri can Red Cross, and physical exam ination - John I . Radclille of preschoo lers for Head Start. Mrs. Bradford served as president of District 8 of the Ark ansas State Nurses' Associ ati on and as v ice president of the Psychiatri cM enta l Hea lth Conference Group of ASNA. Mrs. Clark and Nancy O'Br ien attended the Medical M iss ions Semi nar in Decatur, Ga. Jerry Myhan taught in two Nat ional Board Rev iews in Florida. Dean Sm ith attended the American Nurses' Association convet ion in Washington, D.C. and the National Board Rev iew Seminar in Chicago. Mrs. Bradford presented a program at the Arkansas State ~~urses ' Association convent ion on " The Counse ling Rol e of the Nurse Practitioner." Dea n Smith co-ed ited the Arkansas State Nu rses' Associat ion Newsletter, writing editorials and some of the co lumns for each issue. Mrs. Bradford wrote a chapter on " Guilt" for Psychiatric.Health Nursing: A Wholistic Approach Across the Life Span. Dean' Smi t h spoke at the nursing convocation of the Uni versity of Central
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