School of Nursing In Pursuit of Health During 1983, the School of Nursing placed stong emphasis on the pursuit of the graduate. On May 13, Cathleen Schultz, Dean of the School , received the Ph.D. degree in higher education administration from George Peabody Coll ege of Vanderbilt University. Having achieved a 4.00 CPA in her doctoral study, she was chosen to serve as Banner Bearer at the commencement exercises . On November 8, Nancy Clark successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on "Clini ca l Practice Activities of Clinical Nurse Specialties: Confli cts and Professionalism in Bureaucracy," a national study based on data from 48 sta tes . Louise Bradford completed 78 credit hours toward the Ed.D. degree in personal services wi th an emphasis in general counseling from Memphis State University and she was admitted to candidacy for the degree. Ann Clardy received the Master 's degree in Nursing Science in May from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Helen Lambert completed additional course work toward the Ed.S. degree in counseling from Missi·ssippi State University. Fo ll owing an on-site visit review by two representatives of the Arkansas State Board of Nursing, the School was notified in June that it had received full unconditional continuing approval by the Board with the next visit scheduled for 1986. All members of the faculty were active in the Arkansas Sta te Nurses Association and obtained CPR (Cardio-Pulminary Resuscitation) recertification in the spring of 1983. Dr. Clark attended a two-day training session in Chicago in May for State Board Review faculty. Glenda McClary attended the "Current Drug Therapy INursing Update" workshop in Memphis and took the Cardiac Arrhythmia Course a t White County Memorial Hospital. Jerry Myhan taught the Medical-Surgical Nursing Con tent in the American Journal of Nursing's Review Cou rse at six different places Medical missions continLi"ed to be a major empha sis of the Harding program. Dr. Clark partiCipated in semi-annual medical missions trips to Panama, accompanied by nursing majors for a 10-week program at the AfricanChristian Hosp ital in Eastern Ngwa County, lorna Sta te , Nigeria. In February, Dean Shultz accompanied a team to the Carribean to explore opportunities there for students to become involved in medical missions. Mrs. Bradford wrote a chapter on "Guilt " for a psychiatric-mental health nursing tex t book en titled A Wholistic Approach Across the Life Span. Mrs. Lambert was involved in research on "Comparison of 16PF Scores of Baccalaureate Nursing Students prior to and following a Psychiatric Nursing Experience. " Dean Smith had a book review, One Minute Manager, published in Briefly Noted In the fall of 1983, there were 175 students at Harding who declared nursing as their major. The School generated 984 student semester hours of cred it. During 1982-83, there were 36 students who received the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. ti@ 116 School of Nursing ~ Usli~ Downs
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