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Show 7 THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, September 10, 1987 New Course Helps RNs Re -enter The Work Force SALT LAKE. Marie Hunter had been away from nursing for 11 years. I knew the time was right for me to come back, she says. But I was hesitant ; look at all of the changes. I loved nursing, but I was really concerned about my ability to go from to days filled with shifts of direct patient care. In January, Marie entered a child-rearin- g nurse refresher registered course, a pilot program offered through Intermountain Health Care (IHC), and approved by the Utah State Board of Nursing. IHC picked up part of her tuition costs, and in exchange she agreed to work for one of the companys 24 hospitals upon completion of the course. To qualify for the course, Marie had a short, informal interview and passed a nursing aptitude exam. She then completed 176 hours of nursing theory coursework, 16 hours of clinical skills lab, and 176 hours of patient care in a general medicalsurgical hospital unit. Upon completion, Marie received active RN licensure and credit for 168 continuing education hours. There were 15 students in Maries class. They attended class at the IHC Education Center in Murray two days a week. A regular staff nurse served as preceptor to each refresher nurse and monitored his or her clinical training. The pro LDS Hospital, Hospital Center, Cottonwood Hospital Medical Center and Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Three months after beginning the course, Marie graduated and was at immediately on the job LDS Hospital. She now works with kidney and liver transplant patients. They werent even doing liver transplants when I left nursing to have my kids, she says. But I have my skills and, more importantly. my confidence back. Marie cites her classroom experience as a valuable component to discusthe program. The sion opportunities and constant peer support were probably the most important personal factors in my successful return to work, she says. Karrie Carson, RN, a nurse with LDS Hospital, worked as Maries preceptor nurse. Its very important to have an active nurse right there to help the refresher nurses ease back in, she says. Effective is so critical in nursing, and thats often the most important skill preceptor nurses can teach, foster, and monitor. gram accessed McKay-De- e full-tim- e Karrie also felt that the teaching role created opportunities for her to improve as well. If Marie asked me a question I didn't have an answer to. I felt very motivated to get the answer for her, she says. And because Marie helped ease my patient load, I had the time to do the necessary research. Intermountain Health Care, like health care organizations and hospitals nationwide, is facing a serious nursing shortage, explains Marilyn Wallin, RN, project director for IHC's nursing refresher course. "Wed like nurses to feel confident in taking up their profession again when the time is right. This nurse refresher course is designed specifically to facilitate the return of inactive nurses to professional practice at the staff nurse level. The course utilizes a variety of classroom teaching techniques, including lecture, discussion and The nursing proproblem-solving- . cess. physical assessment and nurs- ing diagnosis are integrated throughout Anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology are also integral to each area of focus. In addition, current ethical. legal, and health care delivery issues are discussed. To provide continuity of patient care, the clinical experience is scheduled on two consecutive days per week. Each refresher nurse works under the direction of the same preceptor nurse throughout the course. "I started out helping with one of Karries patients, Marie In a few weeks I had remembers. total responsibility for the care of three patients. A member of the program's faculty meets with the preceptor nurse periodically to evaluate the refresher nurses progress. IHC is currently accepting applications for the fall refresher course. Candidates should be registered nurses with inactive licensure, or nurses who have been inactive five or more years (no limit). The course will run Sept. 15 through Dec. 10. Tuition is $700.00 with (payable in installments), scholarships available through several hospitals. Interested nurses should contact for an Marilyn Wallin. RN, application or more information. Kelly Services Now Recruiting Mature Worker s HELPING HANDS . . . Korrie Carson, RN, instructs refresher nurse Marie Hunter in program designed to help nurses return to the profession after a respite. Leadership Team Named At Hercules ed group president, Aircraft & Electronics Products Group. Sheehy headed up guided missile research in the Bureau of Ordnance while serving in the Navy before joining Hercules. Mr. Schowengerdt has presided over Hercules Aerospace during its period of greatest growth. Propulsion and graphite materials and structures business reached new records, and Hercules moved into electronics with two key acquisitions. Mettenet has earned a reputation as aerospace innovator. While Bacchus Works vice piesident and general manager, he expanded the business base to cover all services and NASA and developed a unique synergism between propulsion and graphite materials and structures. Muir, a group vice pi esident since 1986, is highly regarded in the propulsion field for his management of the trident I prcgram which brought new technologies to the Navy missile system. DeVault, an industry-recognizeexpert in the composiles field, was part of the original management team formed in 1969 when Hercules entered the graphite materials business. He became the business area's first manager of marketing and was named vice president in the reorganization of the Aerospace Products Group in 1982 Tucci came to Hercules in 1986 from Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc. He developed an extensive background in aerospace electronics with GE and Grumman. MAGNA. Top management changes have brought a new leadership team to Hercules Aerospace Company and new assignments for three Salt Lake area executives. Edward J. Sheehy has become Aerospace Company president, replacing Henry A Schowengerdt. Mr Schowengerdt eps up to company chairman. Ernest A. Mettengf'Jr., Aerospace Products Group president since 1981. becomes vice chairman. In addition, two aerospace executives with their roots at the Bacchus Works have been given top n and composites assignments. Gary R. Muir, Aerospace Products Group vice president. Operations, becomes group president, Missiles & Space, and .Jon B. DeVault, group vice piesident. Graphite Materials and Structures, becomes group president. Composite Products Group. Both Mr Muir and Mr. DeVault u ill be headquartered shortly at the corporate offices in Wilmington. Del., reporting to Mr. Sheehy. C-- 4 d Harry J. Tucci. formerly Aerospace Company vice president, Planning and Development, is nam- - Chiropractic Center Sets Grand Opening Schowengerdt DeVault OHIO KEARNS. A grand opening will be held from 8 a.m. to 8p.m. Sept. 21 for the Aberdeen Chiropractic Center located at 3742 VV. 5400 South. Robert L. Swenson Ph.D. D.C. will he operating the new facility. Complimentary examinations will he offered during the grand opening, if needed. with a $10 fee for Refreshments will be served and everyone in the community is invited to the event. Regular office hours will be from 8 a m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday; from 2 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday; from 8 am. to noon on Thursday and from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday. For more information those interested may call um.CA ?CtcAxJUp ocmoeuoiT TheTender Touch PHW6II C'ULPNtN S AMNINO CINIEH CERTIFIED LOVING TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL PRE SCHOOL PROGRAM SANDYMIDVALE 561-353- 665 VIP 1 E. 7800 SO. BREAKFAST, LUNCH, SNACK Jj-- r STATE LICENSED La. WEST VALLEY WEST JORDAN 967 - 7118 3850 SO. 2700 WEST; AFTER SCHOOL PICK UP AVAILABLE - RIVERTON 566-373- 1 6900 SO. 1300 WEST SALT LAKE. Responding to the According to Moore, the main purrapid growth in the number of pose of ENCORE is to share the adAmericans age 55 and over, Kelly vantages of temporary employment Services, Inc. today announced it with seniors who want to work. will begin a new program to recruit These include; flexible scheduling mature workers at its 700 branch of- that allows employees to work when fices in the U.S. and Canada. convenient and to decline any assignment: a variety of interesting The Kelly ENCORE(TM) prowork experiences and the chance to worker mature gram is the first meet new the opportunity to recruitment program to be in maintain people; current skills or learn new stituted by a major temporary serones; and a way to supplement invice company in North America. come. This group has a lifetime of experiences, knowledge and skills to share with area said Grae Moore, businesses, branch manager for the area that includes Salt Lake. g To communicate these benefits, Kelly Services has distributed information kits to a variety of for retirees and seniors, outlining the advantages of work and providing temporary organizations referral to local Kelly offices. In support of the national recruiting effort, the company's branch office personnel have received current information about the needs and concerns of mature workers. In addition to launching the ENCORE program nationwide, Kelly Services has joined the American Association of Retired Persons member (AARP), the laig'-s- t organization of older Americans, in a pilot employment program in nine U.S. cities. Through AARPs Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEPi. people who are age 55 and over can gain work ex perience and fir J employment with Kelly Services According to Moore, more than 3j.i)uu ot the company's 525.000 temporary employees ar over age 55. For more information on the ENCORE program, call the Kelly office at Kelly Services. Inc., the nation's leading temporary service firm, provides temporary help services in such areas as office automation, office clerical, marketing, light industrial and technical support to a diverse group of businesses, and care through its subsidiary, Kelly Assisted Living Services. 485-751- e Small Businesses Oppose Insurance Law s SALT LAKE. Utah owners strongly oppose laws that would require employers to provide health insurance to all employees, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent small-busines- BusinessUtah. Of those business owners who responded to a statewide poll, an overwhelming 93 percent oppose mandated health insurance, while four percent favor the idea and three percent are undecided. A bill introduced by U. S. Sen. Edand now ward Kennedy under discussion in the Senate would require all employers to provide health insurance coverage to their e workers. This proposal would cause the loss of many existing jobs and severely depress the creation of new jobs, said Dale Zabriskie, state director for NFIBUtah. Health insurance is very expensive these days. Requiring it for all employees would literally bankrupt many full-tim- marginally-pro- f itable small s businesses. Other owners will be forced to lay off workers and curtail hiring new ones in the future to avoid this new cost, Zabriskie said. Most large employers already provide health insurance for their small-busines- workers, while most small businesses do not. Kennedy estimates that 75 percent of all workers without insurance are employed by businesses with 25 or fewer employees. Most health insurance experts estimate that about 31 million Americans have no health insurance. According to Zabriskie, small businesses have often been unable to obtain health insurance plans. And, when available, the premium costs are usually 40 percent more per employee than for big n business, because of the higher administrative costs and a smaller pool of individuals over which to spread the risks of high- - cost illnesses. "Because of the high cost, less s than half of all owners nationwide provide health insurance for their workers, Zabriskie said. He added that in an effort to make health insurance more available, the NFIB has recently begun offering a specially designed group health insurance s owners. plan for Mandating health insurance coverage would be one more step toward Europeanization - - requiring businesses to provide high-cos- t social benefits like the European countries do It we Europeanize benetits. we may Europeanize Since 1982. we have created 14 million new jobs in the United States, while job growth in Europe essentially has been flat," he added. small-busines- smali-busines- 566-150- 0 486-330- 0 mm moff IT WILL PROBABLY COST YOU MORE MONEY NOW IS THE TIME TO SCHEDULE ANY PRUNING OR FOR YOUR TREE SERVICE OR GENERAL FALL CLEAN-U- P NOW, BEFORE THE RUSH, AND WE WILL COME TO YOUR HOME TO GIVE YOU A FREE ESTIMATE ON WHATEVER JOB YOU NEED DONE. HOME - CALL 561-165- 2 per-perso- Highland Ridge Gets AMA Support SALT LAKE. Highland Ridge Hospital recently announced full support and commendation for actions taken by the American Medical Assn, to declare all drug dependencies diseases. Resolution 113, passed by the 406 member House of Delegates of the AMA in June closed the gap between alcoholism and other drug addictions. The action, taken in Chicago, is regarded in the treatment field as long overdue. Although there are differences in we have been treating all addictions as diseases for a long time at Highland Ridge Hospital, said Marvin Carter, Community Services Director. PRUNINGTREE SERVICE LANDSCAPING SPRINKLER INSTALLATION GENERAL FALL 1956. P smil mm treatment regimen, The AMA first recognized alcoholism as a primary illness in CLEAN-U- !3(s) U aU new |